Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Apple M4 iPad
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X32x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7152x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7103x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
4x 4.4 GHz –5x 2.85 GHz –
Frequency
3200 MHz
4400 MHz
Cores
8
9
Instruction set
ARMv9-A
ARMv9.2-A
L2 cache
0
16 MB
L3 cache
0
-
Process
4 nm
3 nm
TDP
6.3 W
20 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
-
192 KB
Transistor count
-
28
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 740
Apple M4 GPU
GPU frequency
680 MHz
1598 MHz
Execution units
2
10
Shading units
1280
128
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12.1
-
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
4200 MHz
7500 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
64 Gbit/s
120 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
-
Storage type
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
NVMe
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
2064 x 2752
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
-
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 24
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 10000 Mbps
Up to 10000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
6
Bluetooth
5.3
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Info
AI
NPU
-
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
38 TOPS
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,534,534
2,713,488
Geekbench 6
2,004
3,767
Geekbench 6
5,344
14,677
FP32 (float)
3,481
4,090