Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs Apple M2 iPad
SOC Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X44x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7203x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
4x 3.49 GHz – Avalanche4x 2.42 GHz – Blizzard
Frequency
3000 MHz
3490 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.5-A
L2 cache
1 MB
0
L3 cache
8 MB
-
Process
4 nm
5 nm
TDP
6 W
15 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
-
192 KB
Transistor count
-
20
Graphics
GPU name
Adreno 735
Apple M2 GPU
GPU frequency
1100 MHz
1398 MHz
Execution units
2
8
Shading units
256
128
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12.1
-
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR5
Memory frequency
4200 MHz
6400 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
67.2 Gbit/s
102.4 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Hexagon
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
15.8 TOPS
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
Yes
Storage type
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
NVMe
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution
1x 200MP
-
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 22
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 6500 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3500 Mbps
Up to 3000 Mbps
Wi-Fi
7
6
Bluetooth
5.4
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS
Info
📊 Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,490,645
2,188,966
Geekbench 6
2,019
2,623
Geekbench 6
5,570
9,803
FP32 (float)
1,689
2,918