Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus vs Apple M4 iPad

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
4x 4.4 GHz –5x 2.85 GHz –
Frequency
2960 MHz
4400 MHz
Cores
8
9
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache
512 KB
192 KB
L2 cache
0
16 MB
L3 cache
0
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Process
7 nm
3 nm
Transistor count
6.7
28
TDP
6 W
20 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC

Graphics

GPU name
Adreno 640
Apple M4 GPU
GPU frequency
675 MHz
1598 MHz
Execution units
2
10
Shading units
384
128
Vulkan version
1.1
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12.1
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Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
7500 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
34.13 Gbit/s
120 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 690
-
Storage type
UFS 3.0
NVMe
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
2064 x 2752
Max camera resolution
1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
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Video capture
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- AV1- VP9
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 20
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 5000 Mbps
Up to 10000 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 1240 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
6
Bluetooth
5.0
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced
Jul 2019
May 2024
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
SM8150-AC
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Official page
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AI

NPU
-
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
38 TOPS

📊 Benchmark

Geekbench 6
1,040
3,767
Geekbench 6
2,865
14,677
FP32 (float)
1,036
4,090
AnTuTu 10
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2,713,488