Apple M5 (iPad) vs HiSilicon Kirin 9010

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M5 (iPad) (99/100)

Apple M5 (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 M5 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M5 (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 M5 (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 M5 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Graphics test 30 FPS 8 FPS
Section 1 88 FPS —
Section 2 63 FPS —
Section 3 46 FPS —
Stability 71% —

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Da Vinci

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
CPU 965229 512832
GPU 1313129 131160
Memory 458312 270499
Total score 3396957 1177196
UX 660296 262705

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Architecture 4x 4.61 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz – 1x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V1213x 2.18 GHz – TaiShan V1214x 1.55 GHz – Cortex-A510
Cores 10 8
Frequency 4610 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
L3 cache — 8 MB

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 6.0 5.2
Modem C1X Balong 5000
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Wi-Fi 7 6
Download speed — Up to 4600 Mbps
Upload speed — Up to 2500 Mbps

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
API Metal Vulkan
Asset compression 576.8 MB/sec 170.6 MB/sec
Background blur 55 images/sec 12.3 images/sec
Edge detection 2.84 Gpixels/sec 0.26 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 177.6 images/sec 3.09 images/sec
Feature matching 0.95 Gpixels/sec 0.03 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 5.76 Gpixels/sec 0.19 Gpixels/sec
HDR 549.3 Mpixels/sec 120.2 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 374.9 pages/sec 126.9 pages/sec
Horizon detection 2.22 Gpixels/sec 0.17 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 452.7 images/sec 81.5 images/sec
PDF Renderer 380 Mpixels/sec 142.9 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 6580.5 FPS 364.3 FPS
Photo processing 161.4 images/sec 43.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 18.3 Mpixels/sec 5.08 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 4 tests
Stereo matching 188 Gpixels/sec 10.6 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
FLOPS 4147.2 Gigaflops 1536 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1620 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 M5 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Announced October 2025 April 2024
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number T8142 Hi36A0V121
Successor — -HiSilicon Kirin 9020

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Bus 8x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 153 Gb/s 68.2 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 16 GB
Memory frequency 4800 MHz 4266 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (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 M5 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-07-06(Toxicaliv) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-07-17->Libero GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-08-12(LBWNB) 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 M5 (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 M5 (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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