Apple M3 iPad vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 865

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Apple M3 iPad Apple

SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Qualcomm

CPU

Architecture

4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –

1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)

Frequency

4050 MHz

2840 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv8.6-A

ARMv8.2-A

L1 cache

256 KB

512 KB

L2 cache

16 MB

Process

3 nm

7 nm

Transistor count

10.3

Manufacturing

TSMC

L3 cache

—

TDP

—

5 W

Graphics

GPU name

Apple M3 GPU

Adreno 650

GPU frequency

1520 MHz

587 MHz

Shading units

144

512

Execution units

—

Vulkan version

—

1.1

OpenCL version

—

2.0

DirectX version

—

12.1

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

2750 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

102.4 Gb/s

44 Gbit/s

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

—

Theoretical Performance

18 TOPS

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Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

NVMe

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

3840 x 2160

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

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 698

Connectivity

5G support

Yes

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

5.3

5.1

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

4G support

—

LTE Cat. 22

Info

Announced

Oct 2023

Dec 2019

Class

Flagship

Model number

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SM8250-AB

Official page

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Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

2,143,122

738,889

Geekbench 6

3,037

1,128

Geekbench 6

11,776

3,277

FP32 (float)

3,502

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▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.