Apple M5 (iPad) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

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

Apple M5 (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 M5 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M5 (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 M5 (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 M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Graphics test 30 FPS 2 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 7 Gen 1
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Hexagon

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
CPU 965229 108282
GPU 1313129 342590
Memory 458312 171953
Total score 3396957 859516
UX 660296 236691

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Architecture 4x 4.61 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz – 1x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A7103x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A7104x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
Cores 10 8
Frequency 4610 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
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) — 5 W

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 6.0 5.3
Modem C1X Snapdragon X62
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Wi-Fi 7 6
Download speed — Up to 4400 Mbps
Upload speed — Up to 1600 Mbps

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
API Metal OpenCL
Asset compression 576.8 MB/sec 141.4 MB/sec
Background blur 55 images/sec 11.6 images/sec
Edge detection 2.84 Gpixels/sec 0.19 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 177.6 images/sec 1.92 images/sec
Feature matching 0.95 Gpixels/sec 0.02 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 5.76 Gpixels/sec 0.17 Gpixels/sec
HDR 549.3 Mpixels/sec 83.4 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 374.9 pages/sec 72.8 pages/sec
Horizon detection 2.22 Gpixels/sec 0.14 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 452.7 images/sec 58.6 images/sec
PDF Renderer 380 Mpixels/sec 107.3 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 6580.5 FPS 453.8 FPS
Photo processing 161.4 images/sec 25.9 images/sec
Ray tracing 18.3 Mpixels/sec 3.99 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 19 tests
Stereo matching 188 Gpixels/sec 7.05 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
FLOPS 4147.2 Gigaflops 680.4 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1620 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 M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Announced October 2025 May 2022
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number T8142 SM7450-AB
Official page — Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 official site
Successor — -Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 4

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Bus 8x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 153 Gb/s 25.6 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 16 GB
Memory frequency 4800 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (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 M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-07-06(Toxicaliv) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-07-17->Libero GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-08-12(LBWNB) 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 M5 (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 M5 (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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