Apple A13 Bionic vs Apple M3 (iPad)

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M3 (iPad) (97/100)

Apple M3 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Apple A13 Bionic (54/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Apple A13 Bionic
Apple

Apple A13 Bionic

54/100
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[ WINNER ]
Apple M3 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M3 (iPad)

97/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple A13 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
NanoReview Score 54.0 Below Average 97.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 54.0 Below Average 98.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Graphics test 10 FPS 20 FPS
Section 1 12 FPS 52 FPS
Section 2 10 FPS 38 FPS
Section 3 7 FPS 28 FPS
Stability 74% 70%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
NPU theoretical performance 5 TOPS 18 TOPS
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Apple Neural Engine

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
CPU 296803 782907
GPU 301818 1029236
Memory 149834 305749
Total score 1101851 2777287
UX 353396 659395

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Architecture 2x 2.65 GHz – Lightning4x 1.6 GHz – Thunder 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
Cores 6 8
Frequency 2650 MHz 4050 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache 128 KB 256 KB
L2 cache 8 MB 16 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 7 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 6 W 20 W
Transistor count 8.5 billion 25 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
4G support LTE Cat. 18 —
5G support No Yes
Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
Download speed Up to 1200 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Upload speed Up to 350 Mbps Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6

Gaming

Gaming specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Call of Duty: Mobile 60 FPS[Ultra] —
Device Apple iPhone 11 Pro828 x 1792 —
Fortnite 60 FPS[High] —
Genshin Impact 59 FPS[Ultra] —
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang 60 FPS[Ultra] —
PUBG Mobile 57 FPS[Ultra] —
World of Tanks Blitz 60 FPS[Ultra] —

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
API Metal Metal
Asset compression 146.8 MB/sec 458.1 MB/sec
Background blur 13.9 images/sec 48.2 images/sec
Edge detection 0.68 Gpixels/sec 1.93 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 25.6 images/sec 108.3 images/sec
Feature matching 0.19 Gpixels/sec 0.62 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.77 Gpixels/sec 2.41 Gpixels/sec
HDR 130.3 Mpixels/sec 422.1 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 90.1 pages/sec 270.6 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.44 Gpixels/sec 1.43 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 85.1 images/sec 287.2 images/sec
PDF Renderer 103.5 Mpixels/sec 299.9 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 1367.9 FPS 4690 FPS
Photo processing 38.5 images/sec 116.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 4.69 Mpixels/sec 13.4 Mpixels/sec
Samples 12 tests 4 tests
Stereo matching 45.7 Gpixels/sec 128.9 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
FLOPS 629.8 Gigaflops 3179.5 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1230 MHz 1380 MHz
Pipelines 4 9
Shading units 64 128
Total shaders 256 1152

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Announced September 2019 October 2023
Class Flagship Flagship
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Bus 4x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.1 Gb/s 102.4 Gb/s
Max size 4 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Audio codecs - AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max display resolution 2688 x 1242 2732 x 2048
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
Max camera resolution — 1x 48MP

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-06-14(Islem Nabet) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-04->TranHongPhuc GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-07-05(LOFEIN) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-10(NotBaoxD) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-16(Slarpunk) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-04(Feonton) AnTuTu —
📘 2025-09-28->will09 — GeekBench CPU
📘 2026-01-26(Bearry) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-03-03(Bearry) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-03-21(Noora) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-03-22(Noora) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-04-08(Bearry) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-04-12(Kaimen) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-04-17(Jacob) — AnTuTu

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple A13 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
1.Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max 1182914 —
2.Apple iPhone 11 1101851 —
3.Apple iPhone 11 Pro 1096858 —
4.Apple iPhone SE (2020) 1033357 —
Phones with A13 Bionic AnTuTu v11 —

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