Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 vs Apple M1 iPad
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
8x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 2.1 GHz – Firestorm4x 3.2 GHz – Icestorm
Frequency
1400 MHz
3200 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv8.5-A
Process
28 nm
5 nm
Transistor count
1
16
TDP
6 W
14 W
Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC
L1 cache
—
192 KB
L2 cache
—
0
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 505
Apple M1 GPU
GPU frequency
450 MHz
1278 MHz
Execution units
1
8
Shading units
48
128
Vulkan version
1.0
—
OpenCL version
2.0
—
DirectX version
11
—
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR3
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
800 MHz
4266 MHz
Bus
1x 32 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
—
68.25 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 536
Yes
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
NVMe
Max display resolution
1920 x 1200
2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution
1x 21MP
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Video capture
1K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
H.264, H.265, VP9, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 4
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 75 Mbps
Up to 2500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
6
Bluetooth
4.1
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Announced
Sep 2015
Nov 2020
Class
Low end
Flagship
Model number
MSM8937
APL1102
AI
NPU
—
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
—
11 TOPS
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
135,324
1,709,057
Geekbench 6
206
2,304
Geekbench 6
832
8,422
FP32 (float)
43
2,617
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.