Qualcomm Snapdragon 6s Gen 4 vs Apple M3 iPad
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A784x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
Frequency
2400 MHz
4050 MHz
Cores
8
8
Process
4 nm
3 nm
Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC
Instruction set
-
ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache
-
256 KB
L2 cache
-
16 MB
Transistor count
-
25
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5
LPDDR5
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
3200 MHz
Bus
2x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
25.6 Gb/s
102.4 Gb/s
AI
NPU
Hexagon
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
18 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 2.2
NVMe
Max display resolution
2520 x 1080
2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
1x 48MP
Video capture
2K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
2K at 30FPS, 1080p at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- VP9
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
-
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 2900 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 1600 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
6
Bluetooth
5.4
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
Announced
Oct 2025
Oct 2023
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
SM6435-AA
-
Graphics
GPU name
-
Apple M3 GPU
GPU frequency
-
1520 MHz
Shading units
-
144
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
543,361
2,143,122
Geekbench 6
1,008
3,037
Geekbench 6
2,479
11,776
FP32 (float)
-
3,502