Apple M3 (iPad) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 675

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M3 (iPad) (97/100)

Apple M3 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 (27/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M3 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M3 (iPad)

97/100
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 675
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 675

27/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 675
NanoReview Score 97.0 Excellent WINNER 27.0 Poor
Performance 98.0 Excellent WINNER 23.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 675
Graphics test 20 FPS —
Section 1 52 FPS —
Section 2 38 FPS —
Section 3 28 FPS —
Stability 70% —

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 675
NPU theoretical performance 18 TOPS —
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Hexagon 685

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 675
CPU 782907 183457
GPU 1029236 27226
Memory 305749 98657
Total score 2777287 480034
UX 659395 170694

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 675
Architecture 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz – 2x 2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Cores 8 8
Frequency 4050 MHz 2000 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 256 KB —
L2 cache 16 MB —
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Process 3 nanometers 11 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 20 W 6 W
Transistor count 25 billion 1.75 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 675
5G support Yes No
Bluetooth 5.3 5.0
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 600 Mbps
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 5
4G support — LTE Cat. 13
Modem — X12

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 675
API Metal Vulkan
Asset compression 458.1 MB/sec 86.2 MB/sec
Background blur 48.2 images/sec 5.26 images/sec
Edge detection 1.93 Gpixels/sec 0.05 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 108.3 images/sec 0.52 images/sec
Feature matching 0.62 Gpixels/sec 0.01 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 2.41 Gpixels/sec 0.04 Gpixels/sec
HDR 422.1 Mpixels/sec 53.9 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 270.6 pages/sec 44.6 pages/sec
Horizon detection 1.43 Gpixels/sec 0.03 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 287.2 images/sec 34 images/sec
PDF Renderer 299.9 Mpixels/sec 57.2 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 4690 FPS 79.7 FPS
Photo processing 116.1 images/sec 18.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 13.4 Mpixels/sec 2.51 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 398 tests
Stereo matching 128.9 Gpixels/sec 0.4 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 675
FLOPS 3179.5 Gigaflops 216.3 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1380 MHz 845 MHz
Pipelines 9 1
Shading units 128 128
Total shaders 1152 128
DirectX version — 12.1
OpenCL version — 2.0
Vulkan version — 1.1

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 675
Announced October 2023 October 2018
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number — SDM675
Official page — Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 official site
Successor — -Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 675
Bus 8x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 102.4 Gb/s 14.9 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 8 GB
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 1866 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 675
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP
Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9 - H.264- H.265- VP8- VP9
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 675
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2025-09-28->will09 GeekBench CPU —
📘 2026-01-26(Bearry) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-03-03(Bearry) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-03-21(Noora) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-03-22(Noora) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-04-08(Bearry) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-04-12(Kaimen) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-04-17(Jacob) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-04-05(h) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-02(Beo) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-08(Not An Axolotl) — AnTuTu

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 675
Data manipulation score — 6224
Phones tested — Less than 3
Photo editing score — 15653
Video editing score — 5705
Web score — 6699
Writing score — 7844

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 675
1.Samsung Galaxy A70 — 480034
Phones with Snapdragon 675 — AnTuTu v11

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