Apple A18 Pro 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 A18 Pro (82/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Apple A18 Pro
Apple

Apple A18 Pro

82/100
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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 A18 Pro Apple M3 (iPad)
NanoReview Score 82.0 Very Good 97.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 87.0 Very Good 98.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M3 (iPad)
Graphics test 13 FPS 20 FPS
Section 1 35 FPS 52 FPS
Section 2 30 FPS 38 FPS
Section 3 21 FPS 28 FPS
Stability 71% 70%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M3 (iPad)
NPU theoretical performance 35 TOPS 18 TOPS
Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Apple Neural Engine

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M3 (iPad)
CPU 521852 782907
GPU 562674 1029236
Memory 187942 305749
Total score 1782199 2777287
UX 509731 659395

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M3 (iPad)
Architecture 2x 4.05 GHz – Everest4x 2.42 GHz – Sawtooth 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
Cores 6 8
Frequency 4050 MHz 4050 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache 192 KB 256 KB
L2 cache 16 MB 16 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 3 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 10 W 20 W
Transistor count — 25 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M3 (iPad)
4G support LTE Cat. 24 —
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
Download speed Up to 10000 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Modem Snapdragon X71 5G —
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7 6

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M3 (iPad)
API Metal Metal
Asset compression 299.9 MB/sec 458.1 MB/sec
Background blur 37.6 images/sec 48.2 images/sec
Edge detection 1.3 Gpixels/sec 1.93 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 78.2 images/sec 108.3 images/sec
Feature matching 0.49 Gpixels/sec 0.62 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 1.5 Gpixels/sec 2.41 Gpixels/sec
HDR 289.5 Mpixels/sec 422.1 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 191.2 pages/sec 270.6 pages/sec
Horizon detection 0.98 Gpixels/sec 1.43 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 319.6 images/sec 287.2 images/sec
PDF Renderer 196.8 Mpixels/sec 299.9 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 3659.7 FPS 4690 FPS
Photo processing 91 images/sec 116.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 9.03 Mpixels/sec 13.4 Mpixels/sec
Samples 14 tests 4 tests
Stereo matching 100 Gpixels/sec 128.9 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M3 (iPad)
FLOPS 2289 Gigaflops 3179.5 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1490 MHz 1380 MHz
Pipelines 6 9
Shading units 128 128
Total shaders 768 1152

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M3 (iPad)
Announced September 2024 October 2023
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1V07 —
Successor -Apple A19 Pro —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M3 (iPad)
Bus 4x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 60 Gb/s 102.4 Gb/s
Max size 8 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 3750 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro 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 camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 48MP
Storage type NVMe NVMe
Video capture 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9- Motion JPEG - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Video playback 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Max display resolution — 2732 x 2048

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple A18 Pro Apple M3 (iPad)
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-03-23(rain) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-04-02(mrboss) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-04-03(BG-User) GeekBench CPU —
📘 2026-05-20(013gafurov) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-06-04(Rain) GeekBench CPU —
📘 2026-06-15(Anton) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-21(l1tsemerr) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-21(Neuron) 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 A18 Pro Apple M3 (iPad)
1.Apple iPhone 16 Pro 1801176 —
2.Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max 1750331 —
Phones with A18 Pro AnTuTu v11 —

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