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Apple A11 Bionic vs Apple M3 Ultra (32-CPU 80-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-05-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 39 %

Apple A11 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3 Ultra (32-CPU 80-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 7 %

Apple A11 Bionic

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3 Ultra (32-CPU 80-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

1,093

32C / 32T · 4.06 GHz

3,240

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

1,997

32C / 32T · 3.60 GHz

28,170

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

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

932

32C / 32T · 4.06 GHz

2,150

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A11

409

Apple M3 Ultra (80 Core)

28,400

AI performance (NPU)

6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

0.6 TOPS

32C / 32T · 0.70 GHz

70.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M3 Ultra (32-CPU 80-GPU)
Family	Apple A series (27)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Apple A11 (1)	Apple M3 Ultra (2)
Architecture	A11	M3
Technology	10 nm	3 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Desktop
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A10 Fusion	Apple M2 Ultra (76-GPU)
Successor	Apple A12 Bionic

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M3 Ultra (32-CPU 80-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 6	32 / 32
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Monsoon 2.39 GHz	24x Palma P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Mistral 1.19 GHz	8x Palma E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz
L2-Cache	8.00 MB	80.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M3 Ultra (32-CPU 80-GPU)
GPU name	Apple A11	Apple M3 Ultra (80 Core)
GPU frequency	1.07 GHz	0.39 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	12 / 192	1280 / 10240
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	1	8
Max. GPU Memory	3 GB	512 GB
Technology	10 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q3/2017	Q1/2025

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M3 Ultra (32-CPU 80-GPU)
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	2 Neural cores @ 0.6 TOPS	32 Neural cores @ 70 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M3 Ultra (32-CPU 80-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (818.7 GB/s)
Max. Memory	3 GB	512 GB
Memory channels	1	8
ECC	No	No
PCIe		5.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M3 Ultra (32-CPU 80-GPU)
TDP	8 W	180 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A11 Bionic	Apple M3 Ultra (32-CPU 80-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	Q3/2017	Q1/2025
Release price
Documents

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A11 Bionic is 3.6 stars (54 ratings), while Apple M3 Ultra (32-CPU 80-GPU) has received 4.9 stars (452 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A11 Bionic
6C / 6T · 2.39 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M3 Ultra (32-CPU 80-GPU)
32C / 32T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★