Apple M5 (iPad) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Apple M5 (iPad) Apple

SOC Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Qualcomm

CPU

Architecture

4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –

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

Frequency

4600 MHz

3300 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

L1 cache

320 KB

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L2 cache

16 MB

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Process

3 nm

4 nm

Manufacturing

TSMC

L3 cache

—

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

153 Gb/s

77 Gbit/s

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

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Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

NVMe

UFS 4.0

Max display resolution

2752 x 2064

3840 x 2160

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video codecs

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

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9

Audio codecs

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Neural processor (NPU)

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Hexagon

Max camera resolution

—

1x 200MP

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

5G support

Yes

Wi-Fi

Bluetooth

6.0

5.4

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Download speed

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Up to 10000 Mbps

Upload speed

—

Up to 3500 Mbps

Info

Announced

Oct 2025

Oct 2023

Class

Flagship

Model number

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SM8650-AB

Official page

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Graphics

GPU name

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Adreno 750

GPU frequency

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903 MHz

Execution units

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Shading units

—

1536

Vulkan version

—

1.3

OpenCL version

—

2.0

DirectX version

—

12.1

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

3,155,649

2,079,542

Geekbench 6

4,175

2,181

Geekbench 6

15,577

7,250

FP32 (float)

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4,730

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