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Apple M3 iPad vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz – 8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53
Frequency 4050 MHz 2000 MHz
Cores 8 8
Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 256 KB
L2 cache 16 MB
Process 3 nm 14 nm
Transistor count 25 2
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
TDP 5 W
Graphics
GPU name Apple M3 GPU Adreno 506
GPU frequency 1520 MHz 650 MHz
Shading units 144 96
Execution units 1
Vulkan version 1.0
OpenCL version 2.0
DirectX version 11
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR3
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 933 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 1x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth 102.4 Gb/s 7.46 Gbit/s
AI
NPU Apple Neural Engine Hexagon 546
Theoretical Performance 18 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1
Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 1900 x 1200
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 24MP, 2x 13MP
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9 H.264, H.265
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 546
Connectivity
5G support Yes No
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 300 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 5
Bluetooth 5.3 4.1
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
4G support LTE Cat. 7
Info
Announced Oct 2023 Feb 2016
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number MSM8953
Official page Official Link ↗
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 2143122 156131
FP32 (float) 3502 124