Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 vs Apple M1 iPad

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)
4x 2.1 GHz – Firestorm4x 3.2 GHz – Icestorm
Frequency
2400 MHz
3200 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
ARMv8.5-A
Process
6 nm
5 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
-
192 KB
L2 cache
-
0
Transistor count
-
16
TDP
-
14 W

Graphics

GPU name
Adreno 610
Apple M1 GPU
GPU frequency
1110 MHz
1278 MHz
Execution units
1
8
Shading units
128
128
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12.1
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Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4266 MHz
Bus
2x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
17 Gbit/s
68.25 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 686
Yes
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2
NVMe
Max display resolution
2520 x 1080
2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution
1x 64MP, 2x 16MP
-
Video capture
1K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
H.264, H.265, VP9, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 13
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 390 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 2500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
6
Bluetooth
5.1
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced
Oct 2021
Nov 2020
Class
Low end
Flagship
Model number
SM6225
APL1102
Official page
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AI

NPU
-
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
11 TOPS

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
310,059
1,709,057
Geekbench 6
414
2,304
Geekbench 6
1,447
8,422
FP32 (float)
284
2,617