Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus vs Apple M1 iPad

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
4x 2.1 GHz – Firestorm4x 3.2 GHz – Icestorm
Frequency
2995 MHz
3200 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.4-A
ARMv8.5-A
L1 cache
512 KB
192 KB
L2 cache
0
0
L3 cache
0
-
Process
5 nm
5 nm
Transistor count
10.3
16
TDP
8 W
14 W
Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC

Graphics

GPU name
Adreno 660
Apple M1 GPU
GPU frequency
905 MHz
1278 MHz
Execution units
2
8
Shading units
512
128
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12.1
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Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
4266 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
51.2 Gbit/s
68.25 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 780
Yes
Storage type
UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
NVMe
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
-
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
H.264, H.265, VP9, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 22
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3000 Mbps
Up to 2500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
6
Bluetooth
5.2
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced
Jun 2021
Nov 2020
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
SM8350-AC
APL1102
Official page
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AI

NPU
-
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
11 TOPS

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
836,957
1,709,057
Geekbench 6
1,230
2,304
Geekbench 6
3,778
8,422
FP32 (float)
1,853
2,617