Apple M3 iPad vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
1x 2.84 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
Frequency
4050 MHz
2840 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.6-A
ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache
256 KB
512 KB
L2 cache
16 MB
0
Process
3 nm
7 nm
Transistor count
25
6.7
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L3 cache
—
0
TDP
—
6 W
Graphics
GPU name
Apple M3 GPU
Adreno 640
GPU frequency
1520 MHz
585 MHz
Shading units
144
384
Execution units
—
2
Vulkan version
—
1.1
OpenCL version
—
2.0
DirectX version
—
12.1
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
102.4 Gb/s
34.13 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
—
Theoretical Performance
18 TOPS
—
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
NVMe
UFS 3.0
Max display resolution
2732 x 2048
3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP
1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
—
Hexagon 690
Connectivity
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 5000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Up to 1240 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
6
Bluetooth
5.3
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
4G support
—
LTE Cat. 20
Info
Announced
Oct 2023
Dec 2018
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
—
SM8150
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
2,143,122
592,031
Geekbench 6
3,037
939
Geekbench 6
11,776
2,855
FP32 (float)
3,502
898
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.