Apple A14 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 A14 Bionic (62/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Apple A14 Bionic
Apple

Apple A14 Bionic

62/100
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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 A14 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
NanoReview Score 62.0 Average 97.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 66.0 Average 98.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A14 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Graphics test 11 FPS 20 FPS
Section 1 13 FPS 52 FPS
Section 2 10 FPS 38 FPS
Section 3 8 FPS 28 FPS
Stability 85% 70%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A14 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
NPU theoretical performance 11 TOPS 18 TOPS
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Apple Neural Engine

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A14 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
CPU 364692 782907
GPU 311592 1029236
Memory 180518 305749
Total score 1326975 2777287
UX 470169 659395

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A14 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Architecture 2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
Cores 6 8
Frequency 3100 MHz 4050 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache 128 KB 256 KB
L2 cache 8 MB 16 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 5 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 6 W 20 W
Transistor count 11.8 billion 25 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A14 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
4G support LTE Cat. 18 —
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 5.0 5.3
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Upload speed Up to 2500 Mbps Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A14 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
API Metal Metal
Asset compression 182.6 MB/sec 458.1 MB/sec
Background blur 19.1 images/sec 48.2 images/sec
Edge detection 0.79 Gpixels/sec 1.93 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 35.2 images/sec 108.3 images/sec
Feature matching 0.24 Gpixels/sec 0.62 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 0.83 Gpixels/sec 2.41 Gpixels/sec
HDR 164.1 Mpixels/sec 422.1 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 110.6 pages/sec 270.6 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.54 Gpixels/sec 1.43 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 104.9 images/sec 287.2 images/sec
PDF Renderer 123.2 Mpixels/sec 299.9 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 1772.1 FPS 4690 FPS
Photo processing 50.8 images/sec 116.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 5.36 Mpixels/sec 13.4 Mpixels/sec
Samples 22 tests 4 tests
Stereo matching 50.5 Gpixels/sec 128.9 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A14 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
FLOPS 654.3 Gigaflops 3179.5 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1278 MHz 1380 MHz
Pipelines 4 9
Shading units 64 128
Total shaders 256 1152

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A14 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Announced September 2020 October 2023
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1W01 —
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A14 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Bus 4x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.1 Gb/s 102.4 Gb/s
Max size 6 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A14 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 2732 x 2048 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 A14 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-06-09(Khang) GeekBench CPU —
📘 2026-06-15(hungph) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-06-26(Hellomt) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-06-29(Ad_545) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-06-29(Kirillkryt) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-06-30(Kirious) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-04(Stelle) 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 A14 Bionic Apple M3 (iPad)
1.Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max 1342343 —
2.Apple iPhone 12 1341575 —
3.Apple iPhone 12 Pro 1328132 —
4.Apple iPhone 12 mini 1306432 —
Phones with A14 Bionic AnTuTu v11 —

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