Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs Apple M5 (iPad)
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X43x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520
4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –
Frequency
3300 MHz
4600 MHz
Cores
8
10
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv9.2-A
L3 cache
0
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Process
4 nm
3 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
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320 KB
L2 cache
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16 MB
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 750
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GPU frequency
903 MHz
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Execution units
2
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Shading units
1536
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Vulkan version
1.3
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OpenCL version
2.0
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DirectX version
12.1
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Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
4800 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
77 Gbit/s
153 Gb/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
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Storage type
UFS 4.0
NVMe
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
2752 x 2064
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
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Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, 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. 24
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
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Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
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Wi-Fi
7
7
Bluetooth
5.4
6.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
AI
NPU
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Apple Neural Engine
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
2,079,542
3,155,649
Geekbench 6
2,181
4,175
Geekbench 6
7,250
15,577
FP32 (float)
4,730
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