Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 vs Apple M4 (iPad)

Compared 2 processors: Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3, vs Apple M4 (iPad). Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 and Apple M4 (iPad)
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3
1411268
Apple M4 (iPad)
2797277
CPU368941763066
GPU4856761167582
Memory314911430483
UX241740436146
NanoReview Score14112682797277
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3
10829
Apple M4 (iPad)
n/a
Graphics Test64 fpsn/a
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3
1913
Apple M4 (iPad)
3767
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3
5098
Apple M4 (iPad)
14677
File Compression212.4 MB/s577.3 MB/s
HTML5 Browser154 pages/s341.4 pages/s
PDF Rendering181.3 MP/sec367.5 MP/sec
Background Blur16.7 frames/s57.2 frames/s
Photo Processing45.7 frames/s149.6 frames/s
Image Detection117.4 frames/s422.4 frames/s
HDR156.1 MP/sec506.2 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.53 MP/sec17.7 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-X4
- 4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A720
- 3x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A520
- 4x 4.4 GHz –
- 5x 2.85 GHz –
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 8 9
Frequency 2800 4400
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache n/a 192 KB
L2 cache n/a 16 MB
Process tech. 4 nm 3 nm
Transistor count n/a 28 billion
Power (TDP) 5.5 W 14 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Adreno 732 Apple M4 GPU
Architecture Adreno 700 Apple GPU
GPU Frequency 950 MHz 1598 MHz
Execution Units 3 10
Shader Units 256 128
Total shader 768 1280
FLOPS 1459.2 GFLOPS 4090 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.3 n/a
OpenCL 2.0 n/a
DirectX 12.1 n/a

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Yes Apple Neural Engine
GPU Frequency n/a 38 TOPS

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 4200 MHz 7500 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 67.2 Gbit/s 120 Gbit/s
Max RAM 24 GB 24 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type UFS 4.0 NVMe
Max. resolution 2560x1600 pixels 2064x2752 pixels
Camera 1x200 pixels n/a
Video recording 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS 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

Modem Snapdragon X63 5G Snapdragon X70
4G Support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 5000 MB/s Up to 10000 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3500 MB/s Up to 3500 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 7 6
Bluetooth version 5.4 5.3
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS

Other

Announced March, 2024 yr May, 2024 yr
Class Mid-range Flagship
Codename SM7675-AB n/a

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Apple M4 (iPad) the clear winner in this comparison.

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