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Apple A10 Fusion vs Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-07-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 31 %

Apple A10 Fusion

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 10 %

Apple A10 Fusion

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.34 GHz

853

11C / 11T · 4.06 GHz

3,125

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.34 GHz

1,207

11C / 11T · 3.80 GHz

13,755

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.34 GHz

776

11C / 11T · 4.06 GHz

2,305

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.34 GHz

1,422

11C / 11T · 3.80 GHz

13,255

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A10

346

Apple M3 Pro (14 Core)

4,970

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
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Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A10 Fusion	Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU)
Family	Apple A series (27)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Apple A10/A10X (2)	Apple M3 (6)
Architecture	A10	M3
Technology	10 nm	3 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A9	Apple M2 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
Successor	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M4 Pro (12-CPU 16-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A10 Fusion	Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	11 / 11
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Hurricane 2.34 GHz	5x Lobos P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	2x Zephyr 1.09 GHz	6x Lobos E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz
L2-Cache	3.00 MB	36.00 MB
L3-Cache	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A10 Fusion	Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU)
GPU name	Apple A10	Apple M3 Pro (14 Core)
GPU frequency	0.90 GHz	0.39 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	224 / 1792
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB	36 GB
Technology	16 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q3/2016	Q4/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A10 Fusion	Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A10 Fusion	Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR4-3200 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (153.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	3 GB	36 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A10 Fusion	Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU)
TDP	5 W	35 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A10 Fusion	Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions		Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q3/2016	Q4/2023
Release price
Documents

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A10 Fusion is 3.7 stars (75 ratings), while Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU) has received 4.7 stars (298 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A10 Fusion
4C / 4T · 2.34 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M3 Pro (11-CPU 14-GPU)
11C / 11T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★