Apple A14 Bionic vs Apple M5 (iPad) Which One is Better

CPU

Architecture

2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm

4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –

Frequency

3100 MHz

4600 MHz

Cores

6

10

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

ARMv9.2-A

L1 cache

128 KB

320 KB

L2 cache

0

16 MB

Process

5 nm

3 nm

Transistor count

11.8

-

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

GPU name

Apple A14 GPU

-

GPU frequency

1278 MHz

-

Execution units

4

-

Shading units

64

-

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR4X

LPDDR5X

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4800 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

153 Gb/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Engine

-

Storage type

NVMe

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

2752 x 2064

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, Motion JPEG

- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+

- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

LTE Cat. 24

5G support

Yes

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

-

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

-

Wi-Fi

6

7

Bluetooth

5.0

6.0

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced

Sep 2020

Oct 2025

Class

Flagship

Model number

APL1W01

-

AI

NPU

-

Apple Neural Engine

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

1,061,696

3,155,649

FP32 (float)

654

-

Geekbench 6

-

4,175

Geekbench 6

-

15,577