Apple A19 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 A19 (90/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

Apple A19
Apple

Apple A19

90/100
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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 A19 Apple M3 (iPad)
NanoReview Score 90.0 Excellent 97.0 Excellent WINNER
Performance 92.0 Excellent 98.0 Excellent WINNER

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple A19 Apple M3 (iPad)
Graphics test 16 FPS 20 FPS
Section 1 40 FPS 52 FPS
Section 2 36 FPS 38 FPS
Section 3 31 FPS 28 FPS
Stability 72% 70%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple A19 Apple M3 (iPad)
Neural processor (NPU) Neural Engine Apple Neural Engine
NPU theoretical performance — 18 TOPS

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A19 Apple M3 (iPad)
CPU 598735 782907
GPU 803562 1029236
Memory 200566 305749
Total score 2156126 2777287
UX 553263 659395

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple A19 Apple M3 (iPad)
Architecture 2x 4.26 GHz – Everest4x 2.6 GHz – Sawtooth 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
Cores 6 8
Frequency 4260 MHz 4050 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.4-A ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache 320 KB 256 KB
L2 cache 8 MB 16 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 3 nanometers 3 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) — 20 W
Transistor count — 25 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple A19 Apple M3 (iPad)
4G support LTE Cat. 24 —
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 6.0 5.3
Download speed Up to 10000 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Modem Snapdragon X80 —
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Upload speed Up to 3700 Mbps Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7 6

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple A19 Apple M3 (iPad)
API Metal Metal
Asset compression 313.7 MB/sec 458.1 MB/sec
Background blur 39.9 images/sec 48.2 images/sec
Edge detection 1.34 Gpixels/sec 1.93 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 90.4 images/sec 108.3 images/sec
Feature matching 0.49 Gpixels/sec 0.62 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 3.16 Gpixels/sec 2.41 Gpixels/sec
HDR 311.5 Mpixels/sec 422.1 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 220.3 pages/sec 270.6 pages/sec
Horizon detection 1.07 Gpixels/sec 1.43 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 305.8 images/sec 287.2 images/sec
PDF Renderer 210.4 Mpixels/sec 299.9 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 3104.2 FPS 4690 FPS
Photo processing 102.1 images/sec 116.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 9.89 Mpixels/sec 13.4 Mpixels/sec
Samples 9 tests 4 tests
Stereo matching 90.3 Gpixels/sec 128.9 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple A19 Apple M3 (iPad)
FLOPS 2073.6 Gigaflops 3179.5 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1620 MHz 1380 MHz
Pipelines 5 9
Shading units 128 128
Total shaders 640 1152

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple A19 Apple M3 (iPad)
Announced September 2025 October 2023
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number T8150a —

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple A19 Apple M3 (iPad)
Bus 4x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 68.2 Gb/s 102.4 Gb/s
Max size 12 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 4266 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple A19 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 A19 Apple M3 (iPad)
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-06-14(atteche) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-05(User898) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-07-20(Ph) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-21(fanz) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-25(Taelnwza) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-06(yuki) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-08-07(Aarav) 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 A19 Apple M3 (iPad)
1.Apple iPhone 17e 2272175 —
2.Apple iPhone 17 2156126 —
Phones with Apple A19 AnTuTu v11 —

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