Apple M5 (iPad) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 870

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Apple M5 (iPad) Apple

SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 Qualcomm

CPU

Architecture

4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –

1x 3.2 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

4600 MHz

3200 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

ARMv8.2-A

L1 cache

320 KB

512 KB

L2 cache

16 MB

Process

3 nm

7 nm

Manufacturing

TSMC

L3 cache

—

Transistor count

—

10.3

TDP

—

6 W

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

LPDDR5

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

2750 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

153 Gb/s

44 Gbit/s

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

—

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

NVMe

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

Max display resolution

2752 x 2064

3840 x 2160

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

Max camera resolution

—

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

LTE Cat. 22

5G support

Yes

Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

6.0

5.2

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

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

Download speed

—

Up to 7500 Mbps

Upload speed

—

Up to 3000 Mbps

Info

Announced

Oct 2025

Jan 2021

Class

Flagship

Model number

—

SM8250-AC

Official page

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Graphics

GPU name

—

Adreno 650

GPU frequency

—

670 MHz

Execution units

—

Shading units

—

512

Vulkan version

—

1.1

OpenCL version

—

2.0

DirectX version

—

12.1

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

3,155,649

810,488

Geekbench 6

4,175

1,151

Geekbench 6

15,577

3,336

FP32 (float)

—

1,372

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