Apple M3 (iPad) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

[ VERDICT ] Winner: Apple M3 (iPad) (97/100)

Apple M3 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 (28/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M3 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M3 (iPad)

97/100
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 685

28/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
NanoReview Score 97.0 Excellent WINNER 28.0 Poor
Performance 98.0 Excellent WINNER 20.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
Graphics test 20 FPS —
Section 1 52 FPS —
Section 2 38 FPS —
Section 3 28 FPS —
Stability 70% —

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
NPU theoretical performance 18 TOPS —
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Hexagon 686

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
CPU 782907 185342
GPU 1029236 28390
Memory 305749 135110
Total score 2777287 476175
UX 659395 127333

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
Architecture 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz – 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A734x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53
Cores 8 8
Frequency 4050 MHz 2800 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache 256 KB —
L2 cache 16 MB —
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 3 nanometers 6 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 20 W —
Transistor count 25 billion —

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
5G support Yes No
Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 390 Mbps
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 150 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 5
4G support — LTE Cat. 13
Modem — X11

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
API Metal OpenCL
Asset compression 458.1 MB/sec 97.1 MB/sec
Background blur 48.2 images/sec 2.93 images/sec
Edge detection 1.93 Gpixels/sec 0.04 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 108.3 images/sec 0.17 images/sec
Feature matching 0.62 Gpixels/sec 0.01 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 2.41 Gpixels/sec 0.02 Gpixels/sec
HDR 422.1 Mpixels/sec 51.6 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 270.6 pages/sec 29.9 pages/sec
Horizon detection 1.43 Gpixels/sec 0.03 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 287.2 images/sec 16.5 images/sec
PDF Renderer 299.9 Mpixels/sec 56.4 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 4690 FPS 29.1 FPS
Photo processing 116.1 images/sec 11.2 images/sec
Ray tracing 13.4 Mpixels/sec 2.83 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 30 tests
Stereo matching 128.9 Gpixels/sec 1.6 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
FLOPS 3179.5 Gigaflops 322.6 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1380 MHz 1260 MHz
Pipelines 9 1
Shading units 128 128
Total shaders 1152 128
DirectX version — 12.1
OpenCL version — 2.0
Vulkan version — 1.1

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
Announced October 2023 March 2023
Class Flagship Low end
Model number — SM6225-AD
Official page — Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 official site

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
Bus 8x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 102.4 Gb/s 17 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 8 GB
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP
Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
Storage type NVMe UFS 2.2
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 1K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9 - H.264- H.265- VP8- VP9
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 1080p at 60FPS

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2025-09-28->will09 GeekBench CPU —
📘 2026-01-26(Bearry) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-03-03(Bearry) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-03-21(Noora) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-03-22(Noora) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-04-08(Bearry) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-04-12(Kaimen) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-04-17(Jacob) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-07-19(Veliki_eblan) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-07-24(Tameng) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-07-26(Aj Umagat) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-07(Christo) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-08-11(SkyBlack) — CPU Throttle

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
Data manipulation score — 7401
Phones tested — 9 models
Photo editing score — 15136
Video editing score — 4745
Web score — 8747
Writing score — 10107

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
1.Realme C85 4G — 527116
10.Realme C85 Pro — 460559
2.Realme 13 4G — 505115
3.Xiaomi Redmi 15 4G — 504376
4.Honor X7d — 499100
5.Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 — 496286
6.Honor X7c — 483206
7.Xiaomi Poco M7 4G — 482788
8.Honor X8c — 466230
9.Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 4G — 464836
Phones with Snapdragon 685 — AnTuTu v11

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