Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 vs Apple M5 (iPad)

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 Qualcomm

SOC Apple M5 (iPad) Apple

CPU

Architecture

1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Prime)3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –

Frequency

2960 MHz

4600 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

ARMv9.2-A

L1 cache

512 KB

320 KB

L2 cache

16 MB

L3 cache

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Process

7 nm

3 nm

Transistor count

6.7

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TDP

6 W

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Manufacturing

Samsung

TSMC

Graphics

GPU name

Adreno 640

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GPU frequency

675 MHz

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Execution units

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Shading units

384

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Vulkan version

1.1

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OpenCL version

2.0

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DirectX version

12.1

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Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR4X

LPDDR5X

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4800 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s

153 Gb/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 690

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Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

NVMe

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

2752 x 2064

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

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Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, 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. 20

LTE Cat. 24

5G support

Yes

Download speed

Up to 5000 Mbps

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Upload speed

Up to 1240 Mbps

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Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

5.1

6.0

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced

Apr 2019

Oct 2025

Class

Flagship

Model number

SM8150-AC

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Official page

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NPU

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Apple Neural Engine

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

636,716

3,155,649

Geekbench 6

996

4,175

Geekbench 6

2,569

15,577

FP32 (float)

1,036

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