Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 vs Apple M1 iPad

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
1x 2.3 GHz – Kryo Prime (Cortex-A720)3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo Gold (Cortex-A720)4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo Silver (Cortex-A520)
4x 2.1 GHz – Firestorm4x 3.2 GHz – Icestorm
Frequency
2300 MHz
3200 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9-A
ARMv8.5-A
Process
4 nm
5 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
-
192 KB
L2 cache
-
0
Transistor count
-
16
TDP
-
14 W

Graphics

GPU name
Adreno 810
Apple M1 GPU
GPU frequency
895 MHz
1278 MHz
Shading units
128
128
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
3.0
-
DirectX version
12.1
-
Execution units
-
8

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
4266 MHz
Bus
2x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
25.6 Gbit/s
68.25 Gbit/s

AI

NPU
Yes
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
11 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type
UFS 2.2, UFS 3.1
NVMe
Max display resolution
3360 x 1600
2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
-
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP9, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
-
Yes

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 18
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 2900 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 1600 Mbps
Up to 2500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
6
Bluetooth
5.4
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced
Feb 2025
Nov 2020
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Model number
SM6650
APL1102
Official page
-

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
684,046
1,709,057
Geekbench 6
1,130
2,304
Geekbench 6
3,013
8,422
FP32 (float)
458
2,617