Samsung Exynos 2500 vs Apple M2 iPad

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X9252x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520
4x 3.49 GHz – Avalanche4x 2.42 GHz – Blizzard
Frequency
3300 MHz
3490 MHz
Cores
10
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.5-A
Process
3 nm
5 nm
Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC
L1 cache
-
192 KB
L2 cache
-
0
Transistor count
-
20
TDP
-
15 W

Graphics

GPU frequency
1300 MHz
1398 MHz
GPU name
-
Apple M2 GPU
Execution units
-
8
Shading units
-
128

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR5
Memory frequency
5333 MHz
6400 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
76.8 Gbit/s
102.4 Gbit/s

AI

NPU
Yes
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
15.8 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
NVMe
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
2732 x 2048
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1
H.264, H.265, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
-
Yes

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
Yes
Yes
Wi-Fi
7
6
Bluetooth
5.4
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS
Download speed
-
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
-
Up to 3000 Mbps

Info

Announced
Aug 2025
Jun 2022
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
S5E9955
APL1109

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
2,519,784
2,188,966
Geekbench 6
2,648
2,623
Geekbench 6
9,881
9,803
FP32 (float)
-
2,918