Apple A17 Pro 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 A17 Pro (77/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Apple A17 Pro
Apple

Apple A17 Pro

77/100
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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 A17 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
NanoReview Score 77.0 Good 99.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 82.0 Very Good 99.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
Graphics test 10 FPS 26 FPS
Section 1 29 FPS 63 FPS
Section 2 23 FPS 56 FPS
Section 3 16 FPS 43 FPS
Stability 71% 71%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
NPU theoretical performance 35 TOPS 38 TOPS
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Apple Neural Engine

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
CPU 374357 915032
GPU 463612 1135331
Memory 184670 349968
Total score 1467470 3116013
UX 444831 715682

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
Architecture 2x 3.78 GHz – Everest4x 2.11 GHz – Sawtooth 4x 4.41 GHz –6x 2.85 GHz –
Cores 6 10
Frequency 3780 MHz 4410 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 256 KB 192 KB
L2 cache 16 MB 16 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 3 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 8 W —
Transistor count 19 billion 28 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 10000 Mbps
Modem Snapdragon X70 Snapdragon X71
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
API Metal Metal
Asset compression 254.1 MB/sec 501.5 MB/sec
Background blur 26.7 images/sec 54.3 images/sec
Edge detection 1.08 Gpixels/sec 2.32 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 65.1 images/sec 124.8 images/sec
Feature matching 0.43 Gpixels/sec 0.73 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 1.11 Gpixels/sec 2.8 Gpixels/sec
HDR 240.3 Mpixels/sec 461.1 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 166 pages/sec 305.6 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.8 Gpixels/sec 1.7 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 178.7 images/sec 416.7 images/sec
PDF Renderer 180.7 Mpixels/sec 317.1 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 3313.9 FPS 4657.1 FPS
Photo processing 77.8 images/sec 139.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 7.76 Mpixels/sec 14.9 Mpixels/sec
Samples 32 tests 7 tests
Stereo matching 87.6 Gpixels/sec 164.7 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
FLOPS 2147.2 Gigaflops 3763.2 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1398 MHz 1470 MHz
Pipelines 6 —
Shading units 128 —
Total shaders 768 —

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
Announced September 2023 May 2024
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1V02 —
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
Bus 4x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 51.2 Gb/s 120 Gb/s
Max size 8 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 7500 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A17 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
Audio codecs - AAC- AAX- AAX+- AC-3- AIFF- CAF- E-AC-3- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP —
Max display resolution 1290 x 2796 2752 x 2064
Storage type NVMe NVMe
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9- 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 A17 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-06-15(Tech By Cleft) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-06-15(k0nd3r) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-06-17(Markyhuhu) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-24(elips) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-26(Desss) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-28(human) 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 A17 Pro Apple M4 (iPad)
1.Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max 1467470 —
2.Apple iPhone 15 Pro 1452754 —
Phones with A17 Pro AnTuTu v11 —

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