Samsung Exynos 2500 vs Apple M3 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 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
Frequency
3300 MHz
4050 MHz
Cores
10
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.6-A
Process
3 nm
3 nm
Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC
L1 cache
-
256 KB
L2 cache
-
16 MB
Transistor count
-
25

Graphics

GPU frequency
1300 MHz
1520 MHz
GPU name
-
Apple M3 GPU
Shading units
-
144

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR5
Memory frequency
5333 MHz
3200 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
76.8 Gbit/s
102.4 Gb/s

AI

NPU
Yes
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
18 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- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution
-
1x 48MP

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 24
-
5G support
Yes
Yes
Wi-Fi
7
6
Bluetooth
5.4
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Download speed
-
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
-
Up to 3500 Mbps

Info

Announced
Aug 2025
Oct 2023
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
S5E9955
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📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
2,519,784
2,143,122
Geekbench 6
2,648
3,037
Geekbench 6
9,881
11,776
FP32 (float)
-
3,502