Apple M1 iPad vs Apple M2 iPad

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Apple M1 iPad

Apple M2 iPad

We compared two versions of tablet SoCs: 8 cores 3200MHz Apple M1 iPad vs. 8 cores 3490MHz Apple M2 iPad . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Apple M1 iPad Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 15W)

Apple M2 iPad Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.918 TFLOPS vs 2.617 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 68.25GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3490MHz vs 3200MHz)

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple M1 iPad

1709057

Apple M2 iPad +28%

2188966

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M1 iPad

2304

Apple M2 iPad +13%

2623

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M1 iPad

8422

Apple M2 iPad +16%

9803

FP32 (float)

Apple M1 iPad

2617

Apple M2 iPad +11%

2918

Apple M1 iPad

VS

Apple M2 iPad

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 3.49 GHz – Avalanche
4x 2.42 GHz – Blizzard

3200 MHz

Frequency

3490 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.5-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.5-A

12 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

5 nm

Process

5 nm

16

Transistor count

20

14 W

TDP

15 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple M1 GPU

GPU name

Apple M2 GPU

1278 MHz

GPU frequency

1398 MHz

8

Execution units

8

128

Shading units

128

16

Max size

24

2.617 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.918 TFLOPS

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

4266 MHz

Memory frequency

6400 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

68.25 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

102.4 Gbit/s

AI

Apple Neural Engine

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

11 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

15.8 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

NVMe

Storage type

NVMe

2732 x 2048

Max display resolution

2732 x 2048

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 2500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Nov 2020

Announced

Jun 2022

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1102

Model number

APL1109

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