Apple M5 (iPad) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
4x 4.6 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz –
8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A53
Frequency
4600 MHz
2000 MHz
Cores
10
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
320 KB
-
L2 cache
16 MB
-
Process
3 nm
14 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
Samsung
Transistor count
-
2
TDP
-
5 W

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR3
Memory frequency
4800 MHz
933 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
1x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth
153 Gb/s
7.46 Gbit/s

AI

NPU
Apple Neural Engine
Hexagon 546

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type
NVMe
eMMC 5.1
Max display resolution
2752 x 2064
1900 x 1200
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
Max camera resolution
-
1x 24MP, 2x 13MP

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 7
5G support
Yes
No
Wi-Fi
7
5
Bluetooth
6.0
4.1
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Download speed
-
Up to 300 Mbps
Upload speed
-
Up to 150 Mbps

Info

Announced
Oct 2025
Feb 2016
Class
Flagship
Mid range
Model number
-
MSM8953
Official page
-

Graphics

GPU name
-
Adreno 506
GPU frequency
-
650 MHz
Execution units
-
1
Shading units
-
96
Vulkan version
-
1.0
OpenCL version
-
2.0
DirectX version
-
11

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
3,155,649
156,131
Geekbench 6
4,175
-
Geekbench 6
15,577
-
FP32 (float)
-
124