Apple M5 (iPad) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 625
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –
8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53
Frequency
4600 MHz
2000 MHz
Cores
10
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
320 KB
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L2 cache
16 MB
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Process
3 nm
14 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
Samsung
Transistor count
—
2
TDP
—
5 W
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR3
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
933 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
1x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
153 Gb/s
7.46 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
Hexagon 546
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
NVMe
eMMC 5.1
Max display resolution
2752 x 2064
1900 x 1200
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
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Hexagon 546
Max camera resolution
—
1x 24MP, 2x 13MP
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 7
5G support
Yes
No
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
6.0
4.1
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Download speed
—
Up to 300 Mbps
Upload speed
—
Up to 150 Mbps
Info
Announced
Oct 2025
Feb 2016
Class
Flagship
Mid range
Model number
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MSM8953
Graphics
GPU name
—
Adreno 506
GPU frequency
—
650 MHz
Execution units
—
1
Shading units
—
96
Vulkan version
—
1.0
OpenCL version
—
2.0
DirectX version
—
11
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
3,155,649
156,131
Geekbench 6
4,175
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Geekbench 6
15,577
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FP32 (float)
—
124
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.