Apple M5 (iPad) vs Apple A10 Fusion

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –
2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr
Frequency
4600 MHz
2340 MHz
Cores
10
4
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
320 KB
64 KB
L2 cache
16 MB
0
Process
3 nm
16 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L3 cache
-
0
Transistor count
-
3.3
TDP
-
5 W

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
1333 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
153 Gb/s
14.9 Gbit/s

AI

NPU
Apple Neural Engine
-

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type
NVMe
NVMe
Max display resolution
2752 x 2064
2048 x 1536
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265, VC-1, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
-
Apple M10
Max camera resolution
-
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 12
5G support
Yes
No
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
6.0
4.2
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Download speed
-
Up to 600 Mbps
Upload speed
-
Up to 100 Mbps

Info

Announced
Oct 2025
Sep 2016
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
-
APL1W24

Graphics

GPU name
-
PowerVR GT7600
GPU frequency
-
650 MHz
Execution units
-
6
Shading units
-
32
Vulkan version
-
1.1
OpenCL version
-
1.2
DirectX version
-
12

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
3,155,649
347,439
Geekbench 6
4,175
-
Geekbench 6
15,577
-
FP32 (float)
-
249