Apple M4 (iPad) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M4 (iPad) (99/100)

Apple M4 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 99/100 compared to Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 (41/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M4 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M4 (iPad)

99/100
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

41/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
NanoReview Score 99.0 Excellent WINNER 41.0 Poor
Performance 99.0 Excellent WINNER 35.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Graphics test 26 FPS 2 FPS
Section 1 63 FPS —
Section 2 56 FPS —
Section 3 43 FPS —
Stability 71% 98%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
NPU theoretical performance 38 TOPS —
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Hexagon

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
CPU 915032 108282
GPU 1135331 342590
Memory 349968 171953
Total score 3116013 859516
UX 715682 236691

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Architecture 4x 4.41 GHz –6x 2.85 GHz – 1x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A7103x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A7104x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
Cores 10 8
Frequency 4410 MHz 2400 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A —
L1 cache 192 KB —
L2 cache 16 MB 3 MB
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Process 3 nanometers 4 nanometers
Transistor count 28 billion —
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) — 5 W

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 5.3 5.3
Download speed Up to 10000 Mbps Up to 4400 Mbps
Modem Snapdragon X71 Snapdragon X62
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 1600 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
API Metal OpenCL
Asset compression 501.5 MB/sec 141.4 MB/sec
Background blur 54.3 images/sec 11.6 images/sec
Edge detection 2.32 Gpixels/sec 0.19 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 124.8 images/sec 1.92 images/sec
Feature matching 0.73 Gpixels/sec 0.02 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 2.8 Gpixels/sec 0.17 Gpixels/sec
HDR 461.1 Mpixels/sec 83.4 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 305.6 pages/sec 72.8 pages/sec
Horizon detection 1.7 Gpixels/sec 0.14 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 416.7 images/sec 58.6 images/sec
PDF Renderer 317.1 Mpixels/sec 107.3 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 4657.1 FPS 453.8 FPS
Photo processing 139.8 images/sec 25.9 images/sec
Ray tracing 14.9 Mpixels/sec 3.99 Mpixels/sec
Samples 7 tests 19 tests
Stereo matching 164.7 Gpixels/sec 7.05 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
FLOPS 3763.2 Gigaflops 680.4 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1470 MHz 443 MHz
DirectX version — 12.1
OpenCL version — 2.0
Pipelines — 3
Shading units — 256
Total shaders — 768
Vulkan version — 1.1

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Announced May 2024 May 2022
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number — SM7450-AB
Official page — Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 official site
Successor — -Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 4

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Bus 8x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 120 Gb/s 25.6 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 16 GB
Memory frequency 7500 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max display resolution 2752 x 2064 2560 x 1600
Storage type NVMe UFS 3.1
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
Max camera resolution — 1x 200MP

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2024-07-01(Aoul) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2024-07-10(Vlad) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2025-09-13(Yusuf baser) GeekBench CPU —
📘 2026-04-26(BG-M4-User) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-08-03(Astreeek) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-04-18(Ashnikko) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-04-20(Angel) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-05-03(PlutoXtech) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-05-10(Damon) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-06-05->samueltails — GeekBench CPU
📘 2026-07-04(Amooarman) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-23(Zamorokk) — AnTuTu

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Data manipulation score — 9185
Phones tested — Less than 3
Photo editing score — 27068
Video editing score — 7300
Web score — 10439
Writing score — 11979

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
1.Motorola Edge 50 — 912649
2.Honor 90 — 873573
3.Xiaomi 13 Lite — 859516
4.Samsung Galaxy M55 — 811120
Phones with Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 — AnTuTu v11

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