Samsung Exynos 990 vs Apple M3 iPad

SOC Specs Compare

CPU

Architecture
2x 2.73 GHz – Exynos M52x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A764x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz –
Frequency
2730 MHz
4050 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
ARMv8.6-A
L1 cache
192 KB
256 KB
L2 cache
0
16 MB
L3 cache
0
-
Process
7 nm
3 nm
TDP
9 W
-
Manufacturing
Samsung
TSMC
Transistor count
-
25

Graphics

GPU name
Mali-G77 MP11
Apple M3 GPU
GPU frequency
800 MHz
1520 MHz
Execution units
11
-
Shading units
64
144
Vulkan version
1.3
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
DirectX version
12
-

Memory

Memory Type
LPDDR5
LPDDR5
Memory frequency
2750 MHz
3200 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
44 Gbit/s
102.4 Gb/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
-
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
NVMe
Max display resolution
3840 x 2400
2732 x 2048
Max camera resolution
1x 108MP, 2x 25MP
1x 48MP
Video capture
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
8K at 30FPS
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. 24
-
5G support
Yes
Yes
Download speed
Up to 7350 Mbps
Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 3670 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
6
Bluetooth
5.1
5.3
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced
Oct 2019
Oct 2023
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
S5E9830
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Official page
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AI

NPU
-
Apple Neural Engine
Theoretical Performance
-
18 TOPS

📊 Benchmark

AnTuTu 10
707,030
2,143,122
Geekbench 6
842
3,037
Geekbench 6
2,672
11,776
FP32 (float)
1,126
3,502