Apple M5 (iPad) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X44x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7203x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
Frequency
4600 MHz
3000 MHz
Cores
10
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
320 KB
-
L2 cache
16 MB
1 MB
Process
3 nm
4 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L3 cache
-
8 MB
TDP
-
6 W
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
4200 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
153 Gb/s
67.2 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
Hexagon
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
NVMe
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
Max display resolution
2752 x 2064
3840 x 2160
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K 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)
-
Hexagon
Max camera resolution
-
1x 200MP
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 22
5G support
Yes
Yes
Wi-Fi
7
7
Bluetooth
6.0
5.4
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Download speed
-
Up to 6500 Mbps
Upload speed
-
Up to 3500 Mbps
Info
Graphics
GPU name
-
Adreno 735
GPU frequency
-
1100 MHz
Execution units
-
2
Shading units
-
256
Vulkan version
-
1.3
OpenCL version
-
2.0
DirectX version
-
12.1
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
3,155,649
1,490,645
Geekbench 6
4,175
2,019
Geekbench 6
15,577
5,570
FP32 (float)
-
1,689