Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs Apple M1 iPad

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Apple M1 iPad

We compared the phone version of 8 cores 3300MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs. the tablet version 8 cores 3200MHz Apple M1 iPad . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (4.7308 TFLOPS vs 2.617 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (77GB/s vs 68.25GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3300MHz vs 3200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 5nm)

Published 2 years 11 months later

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 +80%

4730

Apple M1 iPad

2617

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

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Apple M1 iPad

CPU

1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
3x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A720
2x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520

Architecture

4x 2.1 GHz – Firestorm
4x 3.2 GHz – Icestorm

3300 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

12 MB

0

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

5 nm

-

Transistor count

16

-

TDP

14 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 750

GPU name

Apple M1 GPU

903 MHz

GPU frequency

1278 MHz

2

Execution units

8

1536

Shading units

128

24

Max size

16

4.7308 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.617 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

4800 MHz

Memory frequency

4266 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

77 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

68.25 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon

NPU

Yes

-

Theoretical Performance

11 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 4.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

1x 200MP

Max camera resolution

-

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9, Motion JPEG

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X75

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.4

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Oct 2023

Announced

Nov 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8650-AB

Model number

APL1102

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Official page

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