Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs Apple M3 iPad

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Qualcomm

SOC Apple M3 iPad Apple

CPU

Architecture

1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X43x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520

4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –

Frequency

3300 MHz

4050 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

ARMv8.6-A

L3 cache

—

Process

4 nm

3 nm

Manufacturing

TSMC

L1 cache

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256 KB

L2 cache

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16 MB

Transistor count

—

Graphics

GPU name

Adreno 750

Apple M3 GPU

GPU frequency

903 MHz

1520 MHz

Execution units

—

Shading units

1536

144

Vulkan version

1.3

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OpenCL version

2.0

—

DirectX version

12.1

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Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

LPDDR5

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

3200 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

77 Gbit/s

102.4 Gb/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

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Storage type

UFS 4.0

NVMe

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

2732 x 2048

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

1x 48MP

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 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- AV1- VP9

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

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5G support

Yes

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 7500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

5.4

5.3

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced

Oct 2023

Class

Flagship

Model number

SM8650-AB

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Official page

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NPU

—

Apple Neural Engine

Theoretical Performance

—

18 TOPS

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

2,079,542

2,143,122

Geekbench 6

2,181

3,037

Geekbench 6

7,250

11,776

FP32 (float)

4,730

3,502

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