Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Apple M4 iPad

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Apple M4 iPad

We compared the phone version of 8 cores 3200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs. the tablet version 10 cores 4400MHz Apple M4 iPad . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Advantages

Lower TDP (6.3W vs 20W)

Apple M4 iPad Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (120GB/s vs 64GB/s)

Higher Frequency (4400MHz vs 3200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 4nm)

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

1534534

Apple M4 iPad +76%

2713488

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

VS

Apple M4 iPad

CPU

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715
2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510

Architecture

4x 4.4 GHz –
6x 2.88 GHz –

3200 MHz

Frequency

4400 MHz

8

Cores

10

1 MB

L2 cache

16 MB

0

L3 cache

-

4 nm

Process

3 nm

-

Transistor count

28

6.3 W

TDP

20 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 740

GPU name

Apple M4 GPU

680 MHz

GPU frequency

1470 MHz

2

Execution units

10

1280

Shading units

128

24

Max size

24

3.4816 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12.1

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR5X

Memory type

LPDDR5X

4200 MHz

Memory frequency

7500 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

64 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

120 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon

NPU

Apple Neural Engine

-

Theoretical Performance

38 TOPS

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon

Neural processor (NPU)

Apple Neural Engine

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Storage type

NVMe

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

-

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, AV1, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Snapdragon X70

Modem

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 10000 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 3500 Mbps

Upload speed

-

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.3

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Nov 2022

Announced

May 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8550-AB

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Official page

-

Related SoC Comparison

1

MediaTek Dimensity 8300 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

2

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

3

MediaTek Dimensity 7200 Ultra vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

4

Samsung Exynos 1480 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

5

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Apple A15 Bionic

6

Google Tensor G3 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

7

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

8

Apple M4 iPad vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4

9

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs MediaTek Dimensity 9300 Plus