Apple M3 (iPad) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G

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

Apple M3 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G (38/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M3 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M3 (iPad)

97/100
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
Qualcomm

Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G

38/100
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Benchmark Performance Comparison

Normalized Lab Scores
Benchmark measurements and scores across compared devices
Benchmark Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
NanoReview Score 97.0 Excellent WINNER 38.0 Poor
Performance 98.0 Excellent WINNER 36.0 Poor

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
Graphics test 20 FPS 2 FPS
Section 1 52 FPS —
Section 2 38 FPS —
Section 3 28 FPS —
Stability 70% 69%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
NPU theoretical performance 18 TOPS —
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Hexagon 770

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
CPU 782907 326376
GPU 1029236 112186
Memory 305749 170913
Total score 2777287 806420
UX 659395 196945

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
Architecture 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 GHz – 1x 2.7 GHz – Cortex-A783x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A784x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Cores 8 8
Frequency 4050 MHz 2700 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv8.4-A
L1 cache 256 KB —
L2 cache 16 MB 2 MB
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Process 3 nanometers 6 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 20 W 5 W
Transistor count 25 billion —

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 3700 Mbps
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 1600 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
4G support — LTE Cat. 22
Modem — Snapdragon X53

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
API Metal OpenCL
Asset compression 458.1 MB/sec 160.6 MB/sec
Background blur 48.2 images/sec 10.8 images/sec
Edge detection 1.93 Gpixels/sec 0.17 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 108.3 images/sec 1.86 images/sec
Feature matching 0.62 Gpixels/sec 0.02 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 2.41 Gpixels/sec 0.18 Gpixels/sec
HDR 422.1 Mpixels/sec 95.8 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 270.6 pages/sec 73.7 pages/sec
Horizon detection 1.43 Gpixels/sec 0.13 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 287.2 images/sec 56.6 images/sec
PDF Renderer 299.9 Mpixels/sec 112.8 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 4690 FPS 471.5 FPS
Photo processing 116.1 images/sec 28.9 images/sec
Ray tracing 13.4 Mpixels/sec 4.51 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 5 tests
Stereo matching 128.9 Gpixels/sec 7.34 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
FLOPS 3179.5 Gigaflops 736.3 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1380 MHz 719 MHz
Pipelines 9 2
Shading units 128 256
Total shaders 1152 512
DirectX version — 12.1
OpenCL version — 2.0
Vulkan version — 1.1

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
Announced October 2023 November 2022
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number — SM7325-AF
Official page — Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G official site

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
Bus 8x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 102.4 Gb/s 25.6 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 16 GB
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 200MP
Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 2520 x 1080
Storage type NVMe UFS 2.2, UFS 3.0, 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

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
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 —
📘 2024-05-04(anonymos) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2024-07-25(Palash) — GeekBench GPU
📘 2025-10-20->Faizan90 — AnTuTu
📘 2025-10-29->zenith — AnTuTu
📘 2026-03-14(kiensec) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-04-17(zenith) — AnTuTu
📘 2026-06-15(Prashant) — AnTuTu

PCMark 3.0

PCMark 3.0 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
Data manipulation score — 8341
Phones tested — Less than 3
Photo editing score — 18954
Video editing score — 5647
Web score — 8240
Writing score — 13368

Smartphones

Smartphones specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G
1.OnePlus Nord CE3 5G — 806420
Phones with Snapdragon 782G — AnTuTu v11

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