Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs Apple M5 (iPad)

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm

SOC Apple M5 (iPad) Apple

CPU

Architecture

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X44x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7203x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520

4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –

Frequency

3000 MHz

4600 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

L2 cache

1 MB

16 MB

L3 cache

8 MB

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Process

4 nm

3 nm

TDP

6 W

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Manufacturing

TSMC

L1 cache

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320 KB

Graphics

GPU name

Adreno 735

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GPU frequency

1100 MHz

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Execution units

—

Shading units

256

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Vulkan version

1.3

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OpenCL version

2.0

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DirectX version

12.1

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Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

Memory frequency

4200 MHz

4800 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

67.2 Gbit/s

153 Gb/s

NPU

Hexagon

Apple Neural Engine

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

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Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

NVMe

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

2752 x 2064

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

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Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

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

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

LTE Cat. 24

5G support

Yes

Download speed

Up to 6500 Mbps

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Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

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Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

5.4

6.0

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced

Mar 2024

Oct 2025

Class

Flagship

Model number

SM8635

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Official page

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Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

1,490,645

3,155,649

Geekbench 6

2,019

4,175

Geekbench 6

5,570

15,577

FP32 (float)

1,689

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