Apple M3 (iPad) vs HiSilicon Kirin 9010

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M3 (iPad) (97/100)

Apple M3 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to HiSilicon Kirin 9010 (45/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M3 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M3 (iPad)

97/100
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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 M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
NanoReview Score 97.0 Excellent WINNER 45.0 Poor
Performance 98.0 Excellent WINNER 48.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Graphics test 20 FPS 8 FPS
Section 1 52 FPS —
Section 2 38 FPS —
Section 3 28 FPS —
Stability 70% —

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
NPU theoretical performance 18 TOPS —
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Da Vinci

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
CPU 782907 512832
GPU 1029236 131160
Memory 305749 270499
Total score 2777287 1177196
UX 659395 262705

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Architecture 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz – 1x 2.3 GHz – TaiShan V1213x 2.18 GHz – TaiShan V1214x 1.55 GHz – Cortex-A510
Cores 8 8
Frequency 4050 MHz 2300 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 256 KB —
L2 cache 16 MB 1 MB
Manufacturing TSMC SMIC
Process 3 nanometers 7 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 20 W —
Transistor count 25 billion —
L3 cache — 8 MB

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 4600 Mbps
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 2500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
4G support — LTE Cat. 24
Modem — Balong 5000

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
API Metal Vulkan
Asset compression 458.1 MB/sec 170.6 MB/sec
Background blur 48.2 images/sec 12.3 images/sec
Edge detection 1.93 Gpixels/sec 0.26 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 108.3 images/sec 3.09 images/sec
Feature matching 0.62 Gpixels/sec 0.03 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 2.41 Gpixels/sec 0.19 Gpixels/sec
HDR 422.1 Mpixels/sec 120.2 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 270.6 pages/sec 126.9 pages/sec
Horizon detection 1.43 Gpixels/sec 0.17 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 287.2 images/sec 81.5 images/sec
PDF Renderer 299.9 Mpixels/sec 142.9 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 4690 FPS 364.3 FPS
Photo processing 116.1 images/sec 43.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 13.4 Mpixels/sec 5.08 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 4 tests
Stereo matching 128.9 Gpixels/sec 10.6 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
FLOPS 3179.5 Gigaflops 1536 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1380 MHz 750 MHz
Pipelines 9 4
Shading units 128 256
Total shaders 1152 1024
DirectX version — 12
OpenCL version — 2.0
Vulkan version — 1.3

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Announced October 2023 April 2024
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number — Hi36A0V121
Successor — -HiSilicon Kirin 9020

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Bus 8x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 102.4 Gb/s 68.2 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 16 GB
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 4266 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP —
Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 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 M3 (iPad) HiSilicon Kirin 9010
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 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 —
📘 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 M3 (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 M3 (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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