Apple M4 (iPad) vs HiSilicon Kirin 9010

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M4 (iPad) (99/100)

Apple M4 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 99/100 compared to HiSilicon Kirin 9010 (45/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M4 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M4 (iPad)

99/100
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HiSilicon Kirin 9010
HiSilicon

HiSilicon Kirin 9010

45/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M4 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
NanoReview Score 99.0 Excellent WINNER 45.0 Poor
Performance 99.0 Excellent WINNER 48.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Graphics test 26 FPS 8 FPS
Section 1 63 FPS —
Section 2 56 FPS —
Section 3 43 FPS —
Stability 71% —

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
NPU theoretical performance 38 TOPS —
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Da Vinci

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
CPU 915032 512832
GPU 1135331 131160
Memory 349968 270499
Total score 3116013 1177196
UX 715682 262705

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Architecture 4x 4.41 GHz –6x 2.85 GHz – 1x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V1213x 2.18 GHz – TaiShan V1214x 1.55 GHz – Cortex-A510
Cores 10 8
Frequency 4410 MHz 2300 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 192 KB —
L2 cache 16 MB 1 MB
Manufacturing TSMC SMIC
Process 3 nanometers 7 nanometers
Transistor count 28 billion —
L3 cache — 8 MB

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
Download speed Up to 10000 Mbps Up to 4600 Mbps
Modem Snapdragon X71 Balong 5000
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 2500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
API Metal Vulkan
Asset compression 501.5 MB/sec 170.6 MB/sec
Background blur 54.3 images/sec 12.3 images/sec
Edge detection 2.32 Gpixels/sec 0.26 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 124.8 images/sec 3.09 images/sec
Feature matching 0.73 Gpixels/sec 0.03 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 2.8 Gpixels/sec 0.19 Gpixels/sec
HDR 461.1 Mpixels/sec 120.2 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 305.6 pages/sec 126.9 pages/sec
Horizon detection 1.7 Gpixels/sec 0.17 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 416.7 images/sec 81.5 images/sec
PDF Renderer 317.1 Mpixels/sec 142.9 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 4657.1 FPS 364.3 FPS
Photo processing 139.8 images/sec 43.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 14.9 Mpixels/sec 5.08 Mpixels/sec
Samples 7 tests 4 tests
Stereo matching 164.7 Gpixels/sec 10.6 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
FLOPS 3763.2 Gigaflops 1536 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1470 MHz 750 MHz
DirectX version — 12
OpenCL version — 2.0
Pipelines — 4
Shading units — 256
Total shaders — 1024
Vulkan version — 1.3

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Announced May 2024 April 2024
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number — Hi36A0V121
Successor — -HiSilicon Kirin 9020

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Bus 8x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 120 Gb/s 68.2 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 16 GB
Memory frequency 7500 MHz 4266 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max display resolution 2752 x 2064 3840 x 2160
Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9 - H.264- H.265- VP9
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 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 —
📘 2026-05-01(Vivo_ltc) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-05-01->Huawei_Pura_User — AnTuTu
📘 2026-05-11->Sereginby — CPU Throttle
📘 2026-05-14(Hafiz) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-05-14->DQP — AnTuTu
📘 2026-06-30->zrewzqq — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-01(Ridnitxx) — AnTuTu

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Data manipulation score — 9506
Phones tested — Less than 3
Photo editing score — 20710
Video editing score — 5507
Web score — 8954
Writing score — 13994

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
1.Huawei Nova 15 Ultra — 1321223
2.Huawei Nova 16 Ultra — 1229229
3.Huawei Pura 80 — 1200000
4.Huawei Nova 15 Pro — 1181469
5.Huawei Nova 16 Pro — 1177196
6.Huawei Pura 70 Pro — 1156120
7.Huawei Nova 16 — 1155792
8.Huawei Pura 70 Ultra — 1155792
9.Huawei Mate XT Ultimate — -
Phones with Kirin 9010 — AnTuTu v11

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