Apple A11 Bionic vs Apple M4 (iPad)

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M4 (iPad) (99/100)

Apple M4 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 99/100 compared to Apple A11 Bionic (35/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Apple A11 Bionic
Apple

Apple A11 Bionic

35/100
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[ WINNER ]
Apple M4 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M4 (iPad)

99/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple A11 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
NanoReview Score 35.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 31.0 Poor 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
Graphics test 5 FPS 26 FPS
Stability 59% 71%
Section 1 — 63 FPS
Section 2 — 56 FPS
Section 3 — 43 FPS

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Apple Neural Engine
NPU theoretical performance — 38 TOPS

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
CPU 254993 915032
GPU 116883 1135331
Memory 96795 349968
Total score 626912 3116013
UX 158241 715682

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
Architecture 2x 2.39 GHz – Monsoon4x 1.42 GHz – Mistral 4x 4.41 GHz –6x 2.85 GHz –
Cores 6 10
Frequency 2390 MHz 4410 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 64 KB 192 KB
L2 cache 8 MB 16 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 10 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 8 W —
Transistor count 4.3 billion 28 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
4G support LTE Cat. 12 LTE Cat. 24
5G support No Yes
Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
Download speed Up to 600 Mbps Up to 10000 Mbps
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Upload speed Up to 150 Mbps Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 5 6
Modem — Snapdragon X71

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
API Metal Metal
Asset compression 113.5 MB/sec 501.5 MB/sec
Background blur 10.1 images/sec 54.3 images/sec
Edge detection 0.25 Gpixels/sec 2.32 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 11.3 images/sec 124.8 images/sec
Feature matching 0.07 Gpixels/sec 0.73 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.62 Gpixels/sec 2.8 Gpixels/sec
HDR 83.6 Mpixels/sec 461.1 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 58.7 pages/sec 305.6 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.23 Gpixels/sec 1.7 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 23.6 images/sec 416.7 images/sec
PDF Renderer 82.1 Mpixels/sec 317.1 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 324.3 FPS 4657.1 FPS
Photo processing 29.8 images/sec 139.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 3.32 Mpixels/sec 14.9 Mpixels/sec
Samples 6 tests 7 tests
Stereo matching 12.1 Gpixels/sec 164.7 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
FLOPS 409.3 Gigaflops 3763.2 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1066 MHz 1470 MHz
Pipelines 3 —
Shading units 64 —
Total shaders 192 —

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
Announced September 2017 May 2024
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W72 —
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
Bus 4x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.1 Gb/s 120 Gb/s
Max size 4 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 7500 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M4 (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 2436 x 1125 2752 x 2064
Storage type NVMe NVMe
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- Motion JPEG - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2024-08-21(I desperately need a new phone) GeekBench CPU —
📘 2026-01-08->Tangerine GeekBench CPU —
📘 2026-05-13(TestGame) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-06-03(alwayssonqz) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2024-07-01(Aoul) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2024-07-10(Vlad) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2025-09-13(Yusuf baser) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2026-04-26(BG-M4-User) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2026-08-03(Astreeek) — AnTuTu

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple A11 Bionic Apple M4 (iPad)
1.Apple iPhone X 644307 —
2.Apple iPhone 8 Plus 620370 —
3.Apple iPhone 8 520567 —
Phones with A11 Bionic AnTuTu v11 —

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