Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 vs Apple M1 iPad
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
2x 4.61 GHz –6x 3.63 GHz –
4x 2.1 GHz – Firestorm4x 3.2 GHz – Icestorm
Frequency
4610 MHz
3200 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache
1792 KB
192 KB
L2 cache
24 MB
0
L3 cache
8 MB
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Process
3 nm
5 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
Transistor count
—
16
TDP
—
14 W
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 840
Apple M1 GPU
GPU frequency
1200 MHz
1278 MHz
Shading units
512
128
Execution units
—
8
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Memory frequency
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4266 MHz
Max bandwidth
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68.25 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Hexagon
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
—
11 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
NVMe
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
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Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP9, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
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Yes
Max display resolution
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2732 x 2048
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
Yes
Yes
Wi-Fi
7
6
Bluetooth
6.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS
Download speed
—
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
—
Up to 2500 Mbps
Info
Announced
Sep 2025
Nov 2020
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
SM8850
APL1102
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
3,115,282
1,709,057
Geekbench 6
3,834
2,304
Geekbench 6
12,396
8,422
FP32 (float)
3,686
2,617
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.