Apple A10 Fusion vs Apple M5 (iPad)

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M5 (iPad) (99/100)

Apple M5 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 99/100 compared to Apple A10 Fusion (28/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Apple A10 Fusion
Apple

Apple A10 Fusion

28/100
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[ WINNER ]
Apple M5 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M5 (iPad)

99/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple A10 Fusion Apple M5 (iPad)
NanoReview Score 28.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 25.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M5 (iPad)
Graphics test 4 FPS 30 FPS
Stability 85% 71%
Section 1 — 88 FPS
Section 2 — 63 FPS
Section 3 — 46 FPS

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M5 (iPad)
Neural processor (NPU) No Apple Neural Engine

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M5 (iPad)
CPU 202669 965229
GPU 63274 1313129
Memory 84317 458312
Total score 516981 3396957
UX 166721 660296

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M5 (iPad)
Architecture 2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr 4x 4.61 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –
Cores 4 10
Frequency 2340 MHz 4610 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 64 KB 192 KB
L2 cache 3 MB 16 MB
L3 cache 4 MB —
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 16 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 5 W —
Transistor count 3.3 billion —

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M5 (iPad)
4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 24
5G support No Yes
Bluetooth 4.2 6.0
Download speed Up to 600 Mbps —
Modem Qualcomm MDM9645M C1X
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Upload speed Up to 100 Mbps —
Wi-Fi 5 7

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M5 (iPad)
API Metal Metal
Asset compression 57.7 MB/sec 576.8 MB/sec
Background blur 4.38 images/sec 55 images/sec
Edge detection 0.17 Gpixels/sec 2.84 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 9.32 images/sec 177.6 images/sec
Feature matching 0.04 Gpixels/sec 0.95 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.4 Gpixels/sec 5.76 Gpixels/sec
HDR 56.1 Mpixels/sec 549.3 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 38.7 pages/sec 374.9 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.13 Gpixels/sec 2.22 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 14.2 images/sec 452.7 images/sec
PDF Renderer 44.8 Mpixels/sec 380 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 415.5 FPS 6580.5 FPS
Photo processing 13.5 images/sec 161.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 1.7 Mpixels/sec 18.3 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 4 tests
Stereo matching 10.9 Gpixels/sec 188 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M5 (iPad)
FLOPS 249.6 Gigaflops 4147.2 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 650 MHz 1620 MHz
OpenCL version 1.2 —
Pipelines 6 —
Shading units 32 —
Total shaders 192 —
Vulkan version 1.1 —

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M5 (iPad)
Announced September 2016 October 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W24 T8142
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M5 (iPad)
Bus 2x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 14.9 Gb/s 153 Gb/s
Max size 4 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 1333 MHz 4800 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4 LPDDR5X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M5 (iPad)
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 32MP, 2x 12MP —
Max display resolution 2048 x 1536 2752 x 2064
Storage type NVMe NVMe
Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- VC-1- Motion JPEG - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M5 (iPad)
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2024-02-21(Cap1bara_tech) GeekBench CPU —
📘 2025-08-15(hellz1) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-07-06(Toxicaliv) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2026-07-17->Libero — GeekBench GPU
📘 2026-08-12(LBWNB) — AnTuTu

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple A10 Fusion Apple M5 (iPad)
1.Apple iPhone 7 Plus 557113 —
2.Apple iPhone 7 512305 —
Phones with A10 Fusion AnTuTu v11 —

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