Apple M3 iPad vs Apple M5 (iPad) Which One is Better

CPU

Architecture

4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –

4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –

Frequency

4050 MHz

4600 MHz

Cores

8

10

Instruction set

ARMv8.6-A

ARMv9.2-A

L1 cache

256 KB

320 KB

L2 cache

16 MB

Process

3 nm

Transistor count

25

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Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

GPU name

Apple M3 GPU

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GPU frequency

1520 MHz

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Shading units

144

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Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5

LPDDR5X

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4800 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

102.4 Gb/s

153 Gb/s

AI

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

Theoretical Performance

18 TOPS

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Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

NVMe

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

2752 x 2064

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

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Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

Video codecs

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

Audio codecs

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

Connectivity

5G support

Yes

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

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Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

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Wi-Fi

6

7

Bluetooth

5.3

6.0

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

4G support

-

LTE Cat. 24

Info

Announced

Oct 2023

Oct 2025

Class

Flagship

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

2,143,122

3,155,649

Geekbench 6

3,037

4,175

Geekbench 6

11,776

15,577

FP32 (float)

3,502

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