Apple M5 (iPad) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

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

Apple M5 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 99/100 compared to Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 (20/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M5 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M5 (iPad)

99/100
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

20/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
NanoReview Score 99.0 Excellent WINNER 20.0 Poor
Performance 99.0 Excellent WINNER 14.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
Graphics test 30 FPS —
Section 1 88 FPS —
Section 2 63 FPS —
Section 3 46 FPS —
Stability 71% —

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Hexagon 680

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
CPU 965229 131463
GPU 1313129 17357
Memory 458312 67653
Total score 3396957 282713
UX 660296 66240

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
Architecture 4x 4.61 GHz –6x 2.95 GHz – 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)
Cores 10 8
Frequency 4610 MHz 1800 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 192 KB —
L2 cache 16 MB —
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Process 3 nanometers 14 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) — 5 W
Transistor count — 2 billion

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 13
5G support Yes No
Bluetooth 6.0 5.0
Modem C1X X12
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Wi-Fi 7 5
Download speed — Up to 600 Mbps
Upload speed — Up to 150 Mbps

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
API Metal Vulkan
Asset compression 576.8 MB/sec 68 MB/sec
Background blur 55 images/sec 1.71 images/sec
Edge detection 2.84 Gpixels/sec 0.02 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 177.6 images/sec 0.31 images/sec
Feature matching 0.95 Gpixels/sec —
Gaussian blur 5.76 Gpixels/sec 0.01 Gpixels/sec
HDR 549.3 Mpixels/sec 37.9 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 374.9 pages/sec 33.7 pages/sec
Horizon detection 2.22 Gpixels/sec 0.01 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 452.7 images/sec 11 images/sec
PDF Renderer 380 Mpixels/sec 44.2 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 6580.5 FPS 24.3 FPS
Photo processing 161.4 images/sec 8.66 images/sec
Ray tracing 18.3 Mpixels/sec 1.82 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 39 tests
Stereo matching 188 Gpixels/sec 0.36 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
FLOPS 4147.2 Gigaflops 110.1 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1620 MHz 430 MHz
DirectX version — 11
OpenCL version — 2.0
Pipelines — 1
Shading units — 128
Total shaders — 128
Vulkan version — 1.0

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
Announced October 2025 October 2017
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number T8142 SDM636
Official page — Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 official site

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
Bus 8x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 153 Gb/s 5.3 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 8 GB
Memory frequency 4800 MHz 1333 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR4

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max display resolution 2752 x 2064 1900 x 1200
Storage type NVMe eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9 - H.264- H.265- VP8- VP9
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Max camera resolution — 1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
Date Benchmark Benchmark
📘 2026-07-06(Toxicaliv) GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-07-17->Libero GeekBench GPU —
📘 2026-08-12(LBWNB) AnTuTu —
📘 2026-02-28(diss74) — AnTuTu

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
Data manipulation score — 4803
Phones tested — Less than 3
Photo editing score — 11463
Video editing score — 5085
Web score — 5148
Writing score — 6065

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple M5 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
1.Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 — 282713
Phones with Snapdragon 636 — AnTuTu v11

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