Unisoc SC9863A vs Apple M4 iPad

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A554x 1.2 GHz – Cortex-A55
4x 4.4 GHz –5x 2.85 GHz –
Frequency
1600 MHz
4400 MHz
Cores
8
9
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
ARMv9.2-A
Process
28 nm
3 nm
TDP
3 W
20 W
L1 cache
-
192 KB
L2 cache
-
16 MB
Transistor count
-
28
Manufacturing
-
TSMC

Graphics

GPU name
PowerVR GE8322
Apple M4 GPU
GPU frequency
550 MHz
1598 MHz
Execution units
8
10
Shading units
8
128
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
1.2
-
DirectX version
11
-

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
1800 MHz
7500 MHz
Bus
2x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
-
120 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
No
-
Storage type
eMMC 5.1
NVMe
Max display resolution
2160 x 1080
2064 x 2752
Max camera resolution
1x 16MP, 2x 5MP
-
Video capture
1K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
1080p at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
- 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. 7
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 300 Mbps
Up to 10000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
4
6
Bluetooth
4.2
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced
Nov 2018
May 2024
Class
Low end
Flagship

AI

NPU
-
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
38 TOPS

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
156,960
2,713,488
FP32 (float)
70
4,090
Geekbench 6
-
3,767
Geekbench 6
-
14,677