Product Compare
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs Apple M3 iPad
| SOC | SOC | |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | ||
| Architecture | 1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X44x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A7203x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520 | 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz – |
| Frequency | 3000 MHz | 4050 MHz |
| Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Instruction set | ARMv9.2-A | ARMv8.6-A |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | 16 MB |
| L3 cache | 8 MB | |
| Process | 4 nm | 3 nm |
| TDP | 6 W | |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| L1 cache | 256 KB | |
| Transistor count | 25 | |
| Graphics | ||
| GPU name | Adreno 735 | Apple M3 GPU |
| GPU frequency | 1100 MHz | 1520 MHz |
| Execution units | 2 | |
| Shading units | 256 | 144 |
| Vulkan version | 1.3 | |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | |
| DirectX version | 12.1 | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Type | LPDDR5X | LPDDR5 |
| Memory frequency | 4200 MHz | 3200 MHz |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 67.2 Gbit/s | 102.4 Gb/s |
| AI | ||
| NPU | Hexagon | Apple Neural Engine |
| Theoretical Performance | 18 TOPS | |
| Multimedia (ISP) | ||
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon | |
| Storage type | UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0 | NVMe |
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 2732 x 2048 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 200MP | 1x 48MP |
| 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- AV1- VP9 |
| Audio codecs | - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV | - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV |
| Connectivity | ||
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 22 | |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
| Download speed | Up to 6500 Mbps | Up to 7500 Mbps |
| Upload speed | Up to 3500 Mbps | Up to 3500 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 7 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 5.4 | 5.3 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS |
| Info | ||
| Announced | Mar 2024 | Oct 2023 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | SM8635 | |
| Official page | Official Link ↗ | |
| Benchmarks | ||
| AnTuTu 10 | 1490645 | 2143122 |
| Geekbench 6 Single Core | 2019 | 3037 |
| Geekbench 6 Multi Core | 5570 | 11776 |
| FP32 (float) | 1689 | 3502 |