Apple M5 (iPad) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M5 (iPad) (99/100)

Apple M5 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 99/100 compared to Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus (30/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M5 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M5 (iPad)

99/100
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

30/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
NanoReview Score 99.0 Excellent WINNER 30.0 Poor
Performance 99.0 Excellent WINNER 25.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
Graphics test 30 FPS 1 FPS
Section 1 88 FPS —
Section 2 63 FPS —
Section 3 46 FPS —
Stability 71% 98%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Hexagon 686

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
CPU 965229 193048
GPU 1313129 47353
Memory 458312 106103
Total score 3396957 477542
UX 660296 131038

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
Architecture 4x 4.61 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz – 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Cores 10 8
Frequency 4610 MHz 2200 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 192 KB —
L2 cache 16 MB —
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Process 3 nanometers 8 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) — 3 W

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 6.0 5.2
Modem C1X Snapdragon X51
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Wi-Fi 7 5
Download speed — Up to 2500 Mbps
Upload speed — Up to 800 Mbps

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
API Metal Vulkan
Asset compression 576.8 MB/sec 94.7 MB/sec
Background blur 55 images/sec 4.81 images/sec
Edge detection 2.84 Gpixels/sec 0.09 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 177.6 images/sec 1.35 images/sec
Feature matching 0.95 Gpixels/sec 0.02 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 5.76 Gpixels/sec 0.07 Gpixels/sec
HDR 549.3 Mpixels/sec 55.4 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 374.9 pages/sec 45.9 pages/sec
Horizon detection 2.22 Gpixels/sec 0.05 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 452.7 images/sec 37.3 images/sec
PDF Renderer 380 Mpixels/sec 65.4 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 6580.5 FPS 238.4 FPS
Photo processing 161.4 images/sec 14.9 images/sec
Ray tracing 18.3 Mpixels/sec 2.54 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 6 tests
Stereo matching 188 Gpixels/sec 0.73 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
FLOPS 4147.2 Gigaflops 332.8 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1620 MHz 650 MHz
DirectX version — 12.1
OpenCL version — 2.0
Pipelines — 2
Shading units — 128
Total shaders — 256
Vulkan version — 1.1

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
Announced October 2025 October 2021
Class Flagship Low end
Model number T8142 SM4350-AC
Official page — Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus official site
Successor — -Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
Bus 8x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 153 Gb/s 17 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 8 GB
Memory frequency 4800 MHz 2133 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR4X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max display resolution 2752 x 2064 2520 x 1080
Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 1K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9 - H.264- H.265- VP9
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 1080p at 60FPS
Max camera resolution — 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-07-06(Toxicaliv) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-07-17->Libero GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-08-12(LBWNB) AnTuTu —
📘 2023-12-05(Guest #3) — GeekBench CPU
📘 2025-10-31(KhrizU) — AnTuTu
📘 2025-10-31->DYi22 — AnTuTu
📘 2026-03-08(Aditya) — AnTuTu

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
Data manipulation score — 6337
Phones tested — 4 models
Photo editing score — 26348
Video editing score — 4533
Web score — 11176
Writing score — 13103

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
1.Motorola Moto G62 5G — 561482
2.Nokia G42 — 513089
3.Motorola Moto G (2023) — 499266
4.Motorola Moto G53 — 477542
5.Nokia G310 5G — 453516
Phones with Snapdragon 480 Plus — AnTuTu v11

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