Apple M3 iPad vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Apple M3 iPad Apple

SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 Qualcomm

CPU

Architecture

4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –

1x 2.3 GHz – Kryo Prime (Cortex-A720)3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo Gold (Cortex-A720)4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo Silver (Cortex-A520)

Frequency

4050 MHz

2300 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv8.6-A

ARMv9-A

L1 cache

256 KB

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L2 cache

16 MB

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Process

3 nm

4 nm

Transistor count

—

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

GPU name

Apple M3 GPU

Adreno 810

GPU frequency

1520 MHz

895 MHz

Shading units

144

128

Vulkan version

—

1.3

OpenCL version

—

3.0

DirectX version

—

12.1

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

2x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

102.4 Gb/s

25.6 Gbit/s

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

Yes

Theoretical Performance

18 TOPS

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Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

NVMe

UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

3360 x 1600

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP

1x 200MP

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video codecs

- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9

- H.264- H.265- VP9

Audio codecs

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

Connectivity

5G support

Yes

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 2900 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3500 Mbps

Up to 1600 Mbps

Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

5.3

5.4

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

4G support

—

LTE Cat. 18

Info

Announced

Oct 2023

Feb 2025

Class

Flagship

Mid range

Model number

—

SM6650

Official page

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Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

2,143,122

684,046

Geekbench 6

3,037

1,130

Geekbench 6

11,776

3,013

FP32 (float)

3,502

458

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