Apple M5 (iPad) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Apple M5 (iPad) Apple

SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 Qualcomm

CPU

Architecture

4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 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

4600 MHz

2300 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

ARMv9-A

L1 cache

320 KB

—

L2 cache

16 MB

—

Process

3 nm

4 nm

Manufacturing

TSMC

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

LPDDR5

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

3200 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

2x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

153 Gb/s

25.6 Gbit/s

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

NVMe

UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1

Max display resolution

2752 x 2064

3360 x 1600

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

Max camera resolution

—

1x 200MP

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

LTE Cat. 18

5G support

Yes

Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

6.0

5.4

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Download speed

—

Up to 2900 Mbps

Upload speed

—

Up to 1600 Mbps

Info

Announced

Oct 2025

Feb 2025

Class

Flagship

Mid range

Model number

—

SM6650

Official page

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Graphics

GPU name

—

Adreno 810

GPU frequency

—

895 MHz

Shading units

—

128

Vulkan version

—

1.3

OpenCL version

—

3.0

DirectX version

—

12.1

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

3,155,649

684,046

Geekbench 6

4,175

1,130

Geekbench 6

15,577

3,013

FP32 (float)

—

458

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