Product Compare

Apple M2 iPad vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 4x 3.49 GHz – Avalanche4x 2.42 GHz – Blizzard 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X43x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7202x 2.02 GHz – Cortex-A720
Frequency 3490 MHz 3200 MHz
Cores 8 8
Instruction set ARMv8.5-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 192 KB
L2 cache 0 2.75 MB
Process 5 nm 4 nm
Transistor count 20
TDP 15 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
L3 cache 8 MB
Graphics
GPU name Apple M2 GPU Adreno 825
GPU frequency 1398 MHz 1150 MHz
Execution units 8
Shading units 128
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 6400 MHz 4800 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 102.4 Gbit/s 76.8 Gbit/s
AI
NPU Apple Neural Engine Hexagon
Theoretical Performance 15.8 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU) Yes
Storage type NVMe UFS 4.0
Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 3840 x 2160
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 320MP
Connectivity
4G support LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 4200 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 3000 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 7
Bluetooth 5.0 6.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced Jun 2022 Apr 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number APL1109 SM8735
Official page Official Link ↗
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 2188966 2186467
Geekbench 6 Single Core 2623 2159
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 9803 7227