Apple M2 iPad vs Apple M1 iPad

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Apple M2 iPad Apple M1 iPad

We compared two versions of tablet SoCs: 8 cores 3490MHz Apple M2 iPad vs. 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

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

Apple M1 iPad Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 15W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Apple M2 iPad +28%

2188966

Apple M1 iPad

1709057

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Apple M2 iPad +13%

2623

Apple M1 iPad

2304

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Apple M2 iPad +16%

9803

Apple M1 iPad

8422

FP32 (float)

Apple M2 iPad +11%

2918

Apple M1 iPad

2617

Apple M2 iPad

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Apple M1 iPad

CPU

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

Architecture

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

3490 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

8

Cores

8

16 MB

L2 cache

12 MB

5 nm

Process

5 nm

20

Transistor count

16

15 W

TDP

14 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Apple M2 GPU

GPU name

Apple M1 GPU

1398 MHz

GPU frequency

1278 MHz

8

Execution units

8

128

Shading units

128

24

Max size

16

2.918 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.617 TFLOPS

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

6400 MHz

Memory frequency

4266 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

102.4 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

68.25 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

15.8 TOPS

Theoretical Performance

11 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

Video codecs

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

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 7500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 3000 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Jun 2022

Announced

Nov 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

APL1109

Model number

APL1102

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