Apple M5 (iPad) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

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

Apple M5 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 99/100 compared to Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus (50/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M5 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M5 (iPad)

99/100
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

50/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
NanoReview Score 99.0 Excellent WINNER 50.0 Below Average
Performance 99.0 Excellent WINNER 50.0 Below Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
Graphics test 30 FPS 7 FPS
Section 1 88 FPS —
Section 2 63 FPS —
Section 3 46 FPS —
Stability 71% 97%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Hexagon 780

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
CPU 965229 427402
GPU 1313129 237850
Memory 458312 183144
Total score 3396957 1208784
UX 660296 360388

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
Architecture 4x 4.61 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz – 1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Cores 10 8
Frequency 4610 MHz 2995 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8.4-A
L1 cache 192 KB 512 KB
L2 cache 16 MB 1 MB
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Process 3 nanometers 5 nanometers
L3 cache — 4 MB
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) — 8 W
Transistor count — 10.3 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 22
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 6.0 5.2
Modem C1X X60
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Wi-Fi 7 6
Download speed — Up to 7500 Mbps
Upload speed — Up to 3000 Mbps

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
API Metal Vulkan
Asset compression 576.8 MB/sec 168.9 MB/sec
Background blur 55 images/sec 14.4 images/sec
Edge detection 2.84 Gpixels/sec 0.46 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 177.6 images/sec 5.76 images/sec
Feature matching 0.95 Gpixels/sec 0.08 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 5.76 Gpixels/sec 0.38 Gpixels/sec
HDR 549.3 Mpixels/sec 124 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 374.9 pages/sec 108.6 pages/sec
Horizon detection 2.22 Gpixels/sec 0.34 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 452.7 images/sec 89.6 images/sec
PDF Renderer 380 Mpixels/sec 136.9 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 6580.5 FPS 552.5 FPS
Photo processing 161.4 images/sec 34.3 images/sec
Ray tracing 18.3 Mpixels/sec 4.61 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 3 tests
Stereo matching 188 Gpixels/sec 6.49 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
FLOPS 4147.2 Gigaflops 1290.2 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1620 MHz 840 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 888 Plus
Announced October 2025 June 2021
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number T8142 SM8350-AC
Official page — Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus official site

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
Bus 8x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 153 Gb/s 51.2 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 4800 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
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 3.0, UFS 3.1
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9 - H.264- H.265- VP8- VP9
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS
Max camera resolution — 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-07-06(Toxicaliv) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-07-17->Libero GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-08-12(LBWNB) AnTuTu —
📘 2024-04-04(Katzel) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2024-05-04(Marcel Pipek) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2025-09-18(edge30fusionhype) — AnTuTu
📘 2025-12-08(WrongButton) — AnTuTu
📘 2025-12-15(Lucas) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-01-22(kukuhatop2281337) — AnTuTu

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
Data manipulation score — 10013
Photo editing score — 27933
Video editing score — 7477
Web score — 10869
Writing score — 14232

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
1.Motorola Edge 30 Fusion — 1208784
Phones with Snapdragon 888 Plus — AnTuTu v11

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