Product Compare

Apple M3 iPad vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz – 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
Frequency 4050 MHz 2960 MHz
Cores 8 8
Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 256 KB 512 KB
L2 cache 16 MB 0
Process 3 nm 7 nm
Transistor count 25 6.7
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
L3 cache 0
TDP 6 W
Graphics
GPU name Apple M3 GPU Adreno 640
GPU frequency 1520 MHz 675 MHz
Shading units 144 384
Execution units 2
Vulkan version 1.1
OpenCL version 2.0
DirectX version 12.1
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 102.4 Gb/s 34.13 Gbit/s
AI
NPU Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance 18 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type NVMe UFS 3.0
Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690
Connectivity
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 5000 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 1240 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
Bluetooth 5.3 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
4G support LTE Cat. 20
Info
Announced Oct 2023 Jul 2019
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8150-AC
Official page Official Link ↗
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core 3037 1040
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 11776 2865
FP32 (float) 3502 1036