Apple M3 (iPad) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus

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

Apple M3 (iPad) leads overall with a score of 97/100 compared to Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus (50/100), offering superior measured performance and technical specifications.

[ WINNER ]
Apple M3 (iPad)
Apple

Apple M3 (iPad)

97/100
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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 M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
NanoReview Score 97.0 Excellent WINNER 50.0 Below Average
Performance 98.0 Excellent WINNER 50.0 Below Average

Detailed Technical Specifications

3DMark

3DMark specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
Graphics test 20 FPS 7 FPS
Section 1 52 FPS —
Section 2 38 FPS —
Section 3 28 FPS —
Stability 70% 97%

AI Accelerator

AI Accelerator specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
NPU theoretical performance 18 TOPS —
Neural processor (NPU) Apple Neural Engine Hexagon 780

AnTuTu 11

AnTuTu 11 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
CPU 782907 427402
GPU 1029236 237850
Memory 305749 183144
Total score 2777287 1208784
UX 659395 360388

CPU

CPU specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
Architecture 4x 4.05 GHz –4x 2.75 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 8 8
Frequency 4050 MHz 2995 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.6-A ARMv8.4-A
L1 cache 256 KB 512 KB
L2 cache 16 MB 1 MB
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Process 3 nanometers 5 nanometers
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 20 W 8 W
Transistor count 25 billion 10.3 billion
L3 cache — 4 MB

Connectivity

Connectivity specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
5G support Yes Yes
Bluetooth 5.3 5.2
Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps Up to 7500 Mbps
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 3000 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 6
4G support — LTE Cat. 22
Modem — X60

GeekBench 6

GeekBench 6 specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
API Metal Vulkan
Asset compression 458.1 MB/sec 168.9 MB/sec
Background blur 48.2 images/sec 14.4 images/sec
Edge detection 1.93 Gpixels/sec 0.46 Gpixels/sec
Face detection 108.3 images/sec 5.76 images/sec
Feature matching 0.62 Gpixels/sec 0.08 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 2.41 Gpixels/sec 0.38 Gpixels/sec
HDR 422.1 Mpixels/sec 124 Mpixels/sec
HTML 5 Browser 270.6 pages/sec 108.6 pages/sec
Horizon detection 1.43 Gpixels/sec 0.34 Gpixels/sec
Image detection 287.2 images/sec 89.6 images/sec
PDF Renderer 299.9 Mpixels/sec 136.9 Mpixels/sec
Particle physics 4690 FPS 552.5 FPS
Photo processing 116.1 images/sec 34.3 images/sec
Ray tracing 13.4 Mpixels/sec 4.61 Mpixels/sec
Samples 4 tests 3 tests
Stereo matching 128.9 Gpixels/sec 6.49 Gpixels/sec

Graphics

Graphics specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
FLOPS 3179.5 Gigaflops 1290.2 Gigaflops
GPU frequency 1380 MHz 840 MHz
Pipelines 9 3
Shading units 128 256
Total shaders 1152 768
DirectX version — 12.1
OpenCL version — 2.0
Vulkan version — 1.1

Info

Info specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
Announced October 2023 June 2021
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number — SM8350-AC
Official page — Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus official site

Memory

Memory specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
Bus 8x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 102.4 Gb/s 51.2 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 24 GB
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 3200 MHz
Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5

Multimedia (ISP)

Multimedia (ISP) specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP
Max display resolution 2732 x 2048 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

Recent User Tests

Recent User Tests specifications comparison
Specification Apple M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
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 —
📘 2024-04-04(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 M3 (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 M3 (iPad) Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
1.Motorola Edge 30 Fusion — 1208784
Phones with Snapdragon 888 Plus — AnTuTu v11

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