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Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) vs M4 (iPad)

Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
VS
M4 (iPad)
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
M4 (iPad)

We compared the 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) (Adreno 830) with the older 10-core Apple M4 (iPad) (custom) SoC. Here you will find the pros and cons of each chip, technical specs, and comprehensive tests in benchmarks, like AnTuTu and Geekbench.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v11
  5. GeekBench 6
  6. Specs
  7. Comments (52)

Review

General comparison of performance, power consumption, and other indicators
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulkan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
NanoReview Score
Overall chip score

Key Differences

Main differences and advantages of each chip
Pros of Apple M4 (iPad)
  • Supports 42% higher memory bandwidth (120 against 84.8 GB/s)
  • Has 2 more cores
  • Higher GPU frequency (~34%)
  • Better instruction set architecture

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
vs
M4 (iPad)

AnTuTu 11

The AnTuTu Benchmark measures CPU, GPU, RAM, and I/O performance in different scenarios
CPU 893474 915032
GPU 1133808 1135331
Memory 427210 349968
UX 671910 715682
Total score 3126402 3116013
Samples [541 tests] [3 tests]
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect NanoReview scores.
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GeekBench 6

The GeekBench test shows raw single-threaded and multithreaded CPU performance
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
Asset compression 367.8 MB/sec 501.5 MB/sec
HTML 5 Browser 223.5 pages/sec 305.6 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 257 Mpixels/sec 317.1 Mpixels/sec
Image detection 234.4 images/sec 416.7 images/sec
HDR 315.8 Mpixels/sec 461.1 Mpixels/sec
Background blur 32.7 images/sec 54.3 images/sec
Photo processing 90.6 images/sec 139.8 images/sec
Ray tracing 12.4 Mpixels/sec 14.9 Mpixels/sec
Samples 148 tests 7 tests
Compute Score (GPU)
Background blur 45.3 images/sec 103 images/sec
Face detection 21.6 images/sec 124.8 images/sec
Horizon detection 0.73 Gpixels/sec 1.7 Gpixels/sec
Edge detection 0.91 Gpixels/sec 2.32 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian blur 1.75 Gpixels/sec 2.8 Gpixels/sec
Feature matching 0.33 Gpixels/sec 0.73 Gpixels/sec
Stereo matching 96.8 Gpixels/sec 164.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle physics 3848 FPS 4657.1 FPS
API Vulkan Metal
Samples 100 tests 6 tests
Compute results use different APIs (Metal vs Vulkan/OpenCL) and are not directly comparable!

3DMark

A cross-platform benchmark that assesses graphics performance in Vulkan (Metal)
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
Score 2386 3477
Stability - 71%
Graphics test 18 FPS 26 FPS
3DMark Solar Bay
Score 10874 14286
Graphics test 41 FPS 54 FPS
Section 1 47 FPS 63 FPS
Section 2 41 FPS 56 FPS
Section 3 35 FPS 43 FPS
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
Score 5664 -
Stability 51% -
Graphics test 33 FPS -

PCMark 3.0

Benchmark for evaluating overall system performance in everyday workloads
PCMark 3.0
Web score 21945 -
Video editing score 8458 -
Data manipulation score 16086 -
Photo editing score 39118 -
Writing score 22647 -
Phones tested 36 models -

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
DateBenchmarkResult
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-10-05 -> swag420AnTuTu 123135800
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-10-04 (Gun park)AnTuTu 123085318
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-10-04 (Mรกrcio correia)AnTuTu 123718254
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-10-04 (potatowan)Geekbench 7 CPU2791 / 10180
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-10-03 (Apple Slayer)AnTuTu 123529678
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Apple M4 (iPad)
DateBenchmarkResult
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-09-07 (Lexapes)Geekbench 6 GPU57080
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-09-07 (Lexapes)Geekbench 6 CPU3907 / 15397
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-09-07 (Lexapes)AnTuTu 113396741
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-08-03 (Astreeek)AnTuTu 112940000
๐Ÿ“˜ 2026-04-26 (BG-M4-User)Geekbench 6 GPU52952
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Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) and M4 (iPad)

CPU

Architecture 2x 4.32 GHz โ€“ Oryon (Phoenix L)
6x 3.53 GHz โ€“ Oryon (Phoenix M)		 4x 4.41 GHz โ€“
6x 2.85 GHz โ€“
Cores 8 10
Frequency 4320 MHz 4410 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 192 KB 192 KB
L2 cache 12 MB 16 MB
L3 cache 8 MB -
Process 3 nanometers 3 nanometers
Transistor count - 28 billion
TDP (Sustained Power Limit) 8 W -
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 830 -
Architecture Adreno 800 -
GPU frequency 1100 MHz 1470 MHz
Pipelines 3 -
Shading units 512 -
Total shaders 1536 -
FLOPS 3379.2 Gigaflops 3763.2 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.3 -
OpenCL version 3.0 -
DirectX version 12.1 -

AI Accelerator

Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Apple Neural Engine
NPU theoretical performance - 38 TOPS

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 5300 MHz 7500 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 8x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 84.8 Gb/s 120 Gb/s
Max size 24 GB 24 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1 NVMe
Max display resolution 3840 x 2540 2752 x 2064
Max camera resolution 1x 320MP -
Video capture 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9		 - H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV		 - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Snapdragon X80 Snapdragon X71
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
5G support Yes Yes
Download speed Up to 10000 Mbps Up to 10000 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 3500 Mbps Up to 3500 Mbps
Wi-Fi 7 6
Bluetooth 6.0 5.3
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Announced October 2024 May 2024
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8750-AB -
Official page Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) official site -
Successor - Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 -
Further details
Notes on Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4):
    - The SM8750-AC model has a higher frequencyโ€”4,470 MHz for performance cores versus 4,320 MHz in the SM8750-AB and SM8750-3-AB modelsโ€”and its GPU is 100 MHz faster.
Notes on M4 (iPad):
    - There is slightly slower (5-7%) version of M4 that uses 3 performance + 6 efficiency cores array in 256GB/512GB models of iPad Pro.

Cast your vote

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Total votes: 4307

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Comments

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warzone warzone September 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Not even close m4 is on different league
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High August 30, 2025 at 03:20 PM
Well M1 in overall productivity is still more powerful than 8 elite. You can't compare android Antutu with iOs antutu. It's completely misleading. Don't believe me go look at youtube
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Dnl April 29, 2025 at 03:59 AM
Modem Snapdragon X80 vs Snapdragon X70 they have the same performance for modem "upload". data is wrong here
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The NightShot April 25, 2025 at 05:25 PM
Coughing baby Vs atomic bomb. Why is everyone voting the 8 Elite? It stands no chance against the M4. 8 Elite does not draw 8.2W. It draws 18W on CPU alone.
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FreedomGlazer May 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM
You mistook TDP underload for idle TDP. Apple M4 consumes 30-40 watts underload.
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Help! February 2, 2025 at 06:42 AM
It's really appreciating that how Snapdragon is close to m4 with only 8.3 watts of power consumption.
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NMa February 9, 2025 at 03:40 PM
It's not 8.3 watt it's more than 10 watt around 15 watt source: geekerwan
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SOC master March 18, 2025 at 09:37 AM
Yes , Snapdragon does very impressive job .
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LGs January 3, 2025 at 07:02 PM
8.2W vs 14W is rly different and Elite is awesome, Wait on Elite 2 and 9500 Dimensity.
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Help! February 2, 2025 at 06:43 AM
It's surely surpass the m4 .
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LGs but evil March 18, 2025 at 05:21 PM
that's not how it works, they consume much more power than just 8.2 watts
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android ftw March 24, 2025 at 07:22 AM
LGs but evil, Quit dragging it bro, thatโ€™s the rated performance, watt draw and peak performance always draws much more. Both will draw much more under heavy load
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Customer Xxx November 9, 2024 at 07:21 PM
Accept that devices with 8 elites are minimal handheld computers.
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ov3rclocked November 1, 2024 at 02:42 PM
Even if the M4 beats the Snapdragon 8 Elite, the issue is all software. Full disclosure, I'm generally not an Apple fan, but I give credit where due: it is genuinely impressive what they've been doing with their SoCs. The problem is that while it makes a ton of sense in a MacBook, and that's an awesome application for it, they're also put in the iPad of all things. You have all this raw power... great, what are you really going to use it for in iOS or iPadOS? Play Candy Crush at 8% CPU utilization with an M4, instead of 20% CPU with an M1? This is also true with Android to a significant extent because the hardware is reaching face-melting speeds and companies in both camps love their locked bootloaders and arbitrary restrictions more than ever, but at least in Android's case we have SOME extra features like Samsung DeX, sideloaded apps, and multi-window support that could use some of the extra horsepower. That also ignores if you don't have a locked bootloader and just want to root the thing, in which case you can really go nuts and pin it at 100% doing something useful. We're honestly to the point with folding displays, mobile device storage density, and this kind of brutal power that it makes me angry there isn't a foldable phone with a full desktop OS mode/dual-boot for either a Unix based OS or Windows on ARM. If Apple ever allowed natively running desktop class software on their iPads (or even if they didn't, but you could get it to work anyway), I'd actually consider getting one. Mobile devices are seriously the best and worst they've ever been.
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-m- December 25, 2024 at 10:39 PM
U can literally play a lot of AAA games on an iPad, theyโ€™re porting more by the day, so there is ONE use case for these beast CPUโ€™s theyโ€™re putting in iPads
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Idonno January 9, 2025 at 09:12 AM
-m-, Ever heard of emulation? It is way, way, I mean way better in an Android. We can practically play GTA V, COD Black ops 6, and all those kind sod demanding game, with just a snap of our fingers(well, not really because, emulation configuration can take a lot of time, but in the end, it will be worth it. Trust me).
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Halo March 6, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Really a top comment here, people going crazy about performance on mobile devices which companies put limits on. 99% and even more it's not even worth the difference in performance between flagships devices because you're mostly running Social media and web browsing.
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android ftw March 24, 2025 at 07:24 AM
Halo, How dare you assume I wonโ€™t utilise this power, I have the 8 elite and playing AAA games has never felt better, letting the game idle and then coming back to it always feels like a breeze.
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Apple lover September 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
android ftw, Then you haven't tried ios yet cause they natively support 120fps which your samsung is stuck with 60.
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Sansaku October 12, 2024 at 01:58 PM
LOL... you can say what you want, but: My M1 iPad Pro Antutu 1.7M Score ~ Wildlife Gamescore: 51XX. Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra S-8gen2 Antutu 1.2M ~ Wildlife Score: 32XX. Galaxy S24 Ultra S-8gen3 Antutu 2M ~ Wildlife Gamescore: 49XX. Apple M4 2.7M Antutu Score ~ Wildlife Gamescore: 84XX. I don't think that the S-8gen4 can beat the M4 and yes.. "I" need this processor only on a tablet, not on a phone....
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No truth December 5, 2024 at 06:38 PM
I hope you're not serious
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LGs December 11, 2024 at 06:12 PM
Android cannot be compared with iOS in AnTuTu
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sss December 28, 2024 at 02:50 PM
ok but loook at the twp of m4 compared to 8 elite, now in terms of power to performance snapdragon wins any day
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android ftw March 24, 2025 at 07:26 AM
Snapdragon 8 Elite has already released, and it has hit 3 million peak antutu (confirmed with my own 8 elite phone, realme gt7 pro) . Apple is falling behind.
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The NightShot April 25, 2025 at 05:25 PM
LGs, It can. The only thing that changes is the GPU API.
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Neo June 15, 2025 at 07:40 AM
android ftw, Are you blind It clearly written that antutu scores cannot be compared
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... August 3, 2025 at 01:03 AM
iOS and Android cannot be compared based on Antutu. The creator of Antutu himself says that.
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Apple lover September 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
android ftw, How many times do you guys need to be explained not to come with wntutu figures in ios vs android convo?
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Daeho September 5, 2024 at 02:13 PM
It would be disappointing if the Snapdragon X Elite Gen 2 loses to the Apple M4 Max, as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4's CPU score is almost on par with the Apple M4 which has 2 more cores and a higher clock speed and its GPU is even better than the M4's. So, the Snapdragon X Plus Gen 2 should be equivalent to the Apple M4 Pro and the Snapdragon X Elite Gen 2 should be equivalent to the Apple M4 Max!
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LGs December 11, 2024 at 06:14 PM
Apple has no equals in the laptop processor area, I highly doubt that the snapdragon X Elite Gen 2 will even pass m4 Pro in performance
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nn44 April 24, 2025 at 09:04 PM
LGs, Wrong conclusion again
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Adamsk June 26, 2025 at 08:54 AM
LGs, do u know that M4 base beat Ryzen AI 7 350 huh
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Jhonny May 24, 2024 at 02:48 AM
Man, I am impressed. Snapdragon is getting out of hands. Also, what would be the clock speeds for the overclocked Galaxy?
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Jon October 18, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Samsung phones with the over locked versions usually still run slower than other phones with the standard version. This is due to a variety of factors but specificity the S-pen taking up more space that could've instead been used for cooling
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Heman May 21, 2024 at 07:55 AM
8Gen4 is crazy. A mobile CPU with those numbers, man. Also, the power consumption is insane. Imagine 2 extra cores and a little increase in the power it consumes - they should do this for tabs and 2-in-1 laptops. And it's already beating M4, a laptop chip, in both numbers and efficiency. M4 performance on a smartphone. Mind blown.
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Eyadd June 4, 2024 at 03:40 AM
It's just rumor and leaks. Don't put too much on it. Like, for real, how could a chipset beat a processor?
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Mostafa June 14, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Eyadd, Why are you even surprised? Don't you know Snapdragon already? This has become so easy for them.
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Anon February 8, 2025 at 08:32 PM
Eyadd, @Eyadd your comment aged like milk
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Meth March 28, 2025 at 09:18 AM
Wait you have the power !!! I mean what u really gonna do with it .? Tht too with android ๐Ÿคง
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Dr mujeeb May 20, 2024 at 05:29 AM
Imagine being the GPU of your big laptop chip, beaten by a small mobile chip. Apple should feel ashamed. Coming to the CPU: although this laptop chip beats the 8 gen 4 here, it is again a win for Snapdragon. Because the peak power consumption of M4 in tests is 30W, double compared to the rumored peak consumption of 8 gen 4 at 15W. (PS: Sustained consumption of M4 is around 20W, and for mobile chips like Snapdragon 8 gen 4 it is around 6W, so again, there's no comparison.)
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Eyadd June 4, 2024 at 03:38 AM
I think it will be like Snapdragon X and elite Saying it will be superior compared to apple CPU and GPU At end it turns out it's still weak compared to M3
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memo May 14, 2024 at 04:00 PM
Antutu application points cannot be directly compared to Android processors THE fair comparison is GeekBench 6 points and the m4๐Ÿ’€๐Ÿ”ฅ
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Kash May 29, 2024 at 05:50 AM
Geekbench includes AI benchmark, which is not compatible. Neither are the Metal FX graphics.
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Daine Ramos Quitco May 31, 2024 at 07:19 AM
Geekbench only tests CPU and GPU while Antutu tests everything.
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-m- June 8, 2024 at 09:33 PM
Daine Ramos Quitco, that does not change the fact that antutu scores from ios can't be compared to antutu scores from android because they use different APIs, making 3dmark and geekbench 6 the only reliable benchmarks
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Alexander September 5, 2024 at 09:18 AM
Daine Ramos Quitco, But antutu is not optimized for IOS lol.
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android ftw March 24, 2025 at 07:31 AM
Alexander, Apple glazers will never accept defeat, your egos intoxicate yourselves
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Meth March 28, 2025 at 09:21 AM
-m-, We even saw that antutu being manipulated in phones like IQOO
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Daine Ramos Quitco May 14, 2024 at 05:05 AM
Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will be wild.
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Eyadd June 4, 2024 at 03:32 AM
Or, trash, considering it's just rumor and leaks.
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zxdd June 13, 2024 at 03:14 PM
Eyadd, Hmm, I'm gonna switch from my 15 Pro this time. That performance, despite having optimization issues, is mind-blowing, bruh!
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GTG September 14, 2024 at 05:53 PM
Eyadd, Why did bother check the rumoured comparison then? Is it were the other way round, this would have been your next phone war claim to mock android phones. Shame on you.
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