Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Apple M1 iPad
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X23x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A7104x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
4x 2.1 GHz – Firestorm4x 3.2 GHz – Icestorm
Frequency
3000 MHz
3200 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9-A
ARMv8.5-A
L2 cache
0
0
L3 cache
0
-
Process
4 nm
5 nm
TDP
5.3 W
14 W
Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC
L1 cache
-
192 KB
Transistor count
-
16
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 730
Apple M1 GPU
GPU frequency
818 MHz
1278 MHz
Execution units
2
8
Shading units
768
128
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12.1
-
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
3200 MHz
4266 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
51.2 Gbit/s
68.25 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
Yes
Storage type
UFS 3.1
NVMe
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
-
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
H.264, H.265, VP9, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 18
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3670 Mbps
Up to 2500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
6
Bluetooth
5.3
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS
Info
AI
NPU
-
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
11 TOPS
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,118,907
1,709,057
Geekbench 6
1,664
2,304
Geekbench 6
4,030
8,422
FP32 (float)
2,512
2,617