Apple M5 (iPad) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –
4x 2.5 GHz – Krait
Frequency
4600 MHz
2500 MHz
Cores
10
4
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
320 KB
128 KB
L2 cache
16 MB
0
Process
3 nm
28 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Transistor count
—
1
TDP
—
6 W
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR3
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
933 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
153 Gb/s
14.9 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
—
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
NVMe
eMMC 5.0
Max display resolution
2752 x 2064
2560 x 2048
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)
—
No
Max camera resolution
—
1x 21MP
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 5
5G support
Yes
No
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
6.0
4.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Download speed
—
Up to 150 Mbps
Upload speed
—
Up to 50 Mbps
Info
Announced
Oct 2025
Feb 2014
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
—
MSM8974 v3
Graphics
GPU name
—
Adreno 330
GPU frequency
—
578 MHz
Execution units
—
1
Shading units
—
128
Vulkan version
—
1.0
OpenCL version
—
1.2
DirectX version
—
11
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
3,155,649
126,118
Geekbench 6
4,175
—
Geekbench 6
15,577
—
FP32 (float)
—
148
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.