Apple M4 (iPad) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

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

Apple M4 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 99/100 compared to Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 (26/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M4 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M4 (iPad)

99/100
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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 M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
NanoReview Score 99.0 Excellent WINNER 26.0 Poor
Performance 99.0 Excellent WINNER 19.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Graphics test 26 FPS 2 FPS
Section 1 63 FPS —
Section 2 56 FPS —
Section 3 43 FPS —
Stability 71% 97%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
NPU theoretical performance 38 TOPS —
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Hexagon 682

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
CPU 915032 148324
GPU 1135331 101521
Memory 349968 88938
Total score 3116013 438016
UX 715682 99233

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Architecture 4x 4.41 GHz –6x 2.85 GHz – 4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)
Cores 10 8
Frequency 4410 MHz 2450 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 192 KB 128 KB
L2 cache 16 MB 2 MB
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Process 3 nanometers 10 nanometers
Transistor count 28 billion 3 billion
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) — 9 W

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 16
5G support Yes No
Bluetooth 5.3 5.0
Download speed Up to 10000 Mbps Up to 1000 Mbps
Modem Snapdragon X71 X16
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

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
API Metal OpenCL
Asset compression 501.5 MB/sec 87.1 MB/sec
Background blur 54.3 images/sec 2.93 images/sec
Edge detection 2.32 Gpixels/sec 0.11 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 124.8 images/sec 1.3 images/sec
Feature matching 0.73 Gpixels/sec 0.02 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 2.8 Gpixels/sec 0.06 Gpixels/sec
HDR 461.1 Mpixels/sec 48.2 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 305.6 pages/sec 46.5 pages/sec
Horizon detection 1.7 Gpixels/sec 0.08 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 416.7 images/sec 15.6 images/sec
PDF Renderer 317.1 Mpixels/sec 56.7 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 4657.1 FPS 105.3 FPS
Photo processing 139.8 images/sec 11 images/sec
Ray tracing 14.9 Mpixels/sec 2.23 Mpixels/sec
Samples 7 tests 2 tests
Stereo matching 164.7 Gpixels/sec 5.03 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
FLOPS 3763.2 Gigaflops 363.5 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1470 MHz 710 MHz
DirectX version — 11
OpenCL version — 2.0
Pipelines — 4
Shading units — 64
Total shaders — 256
Vulkan version — 1.0

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Announced May 2024 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 M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Bus 8x 16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Max bandwidth 120 Gb/s 29.8 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 8 GB
Memory frequency 7500 MHz 1866 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR4X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max display resolution 2752 x 2064 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
Max camera resolution — 1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
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 —
📘 2023-09-25(Nightshot) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2026-05-13(Lee) — GeekBench CPU

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M4 (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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