Apple M3 (iPad) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

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

Apple M3 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 (26/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M3 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M3 (iPad)

97/100
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

26/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
NanoReview Score 97.0 Excellent WINNER 26.0 Poor
Performance 98.0 Excellent WINNER 19.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Graphics test 20 FPS 2 FPS
Section 1 52 FPS —
Section 2 38 FPS —
Section 3 28 FPS —
Stability 70% 97%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
NPU theoretical performance 18 TOPS —
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Hexagon 682

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
CPU 782907 148324
GPU 1029236 101521
Memory 305749 88938
Total score 2777287 438016
UX 659395 99233

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Architecture 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz – 4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)
Cores 8 8
Frequency 4050 MHz 2450 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 256 KB 128 KB
L2 cache 16 MB 2 MB
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Process 3 nanometers 10 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 20 W 9 W
Transistor count 25 billion 3 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
5G support Yes No
Bluetooth 5.3 5.0
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 1000 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. 16
Modem — X16

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
API Metal OpenCL
Asset compression 458.1 MB/sec 87.1 MB/sec
Background blur 48.2 images/sec 2.93 images/sec
Edge detection 1.93 Gpixels/sec 0.11 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 108.3 images/sec 1.3 images/sec
Feature matching 0.62 Gpixels/sec 0.02 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 2.41 Gpixels/sec 0.06 Gpixels/sec
HDR 422.1 Mpixels/sec 48.2 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 270.6 pages/sec 46.5 pages/sec
Horizon detection 1.43 Gpixels/sec 0.08 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 287.2 images/sec 15.6 images/sec
PDF Renderer 299.9 Mpixels/sec 56.7 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 4690 FPS 105.3 FPS
Photo processing 116.1 images/sec 11 images/sec
Ray tracing 13.4 Mpixels/sec 2.23 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 2 tests
Stereo matching 128.9 Gpixels/sec 5.03 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
FLOPS 3179.5 Gigaflops 363.5 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1380 MHz 710 MHz
Pipelines 9 4
Shading units 128 64
Total shaders 1152 256
DirectX version — 11
OpenCL version — 2.0
Vulkan version — 1.0

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Announced October 2023 November 2016
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number — MSM8998
Official page — Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 official site
Successor — -Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Bus 8x 16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth 102.4 Gb/s 29.8 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 835
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 32MP, 2x 16MP
Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 3840 x 2160
Storage type NVMe UFS 2.1
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9 - H.264- H.265- VP9
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
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 —
📘 2023-09-25(Nightshot) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2026-05-13(Lee) — GeekBench CPU

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Data manipulation score — 5696
Photo editing score — 13302
Video editing score — 5841
Web score — 5581
Writing score — 7633

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