Comparing Qualcomm Snapdragon 8c vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8c

description_compare Qualcomm Snapdragon 8c and Apple M1 (7-GPU)

• Name
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 8c Apple M1 (7-GPU)
• Family
  Qualcomm Snapdragon Apple M series
• CPU group
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 8c Apple M1
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  1 1

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• CPU Cores / Threads
  8 / 8 8 / 8
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A-Core
  4x Kryo 490 Gold 4x Firestorm
• B-Core
  4x Kryo 490 Silver 4x Icestorm
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• A-Core Frequency
  2.45 GHz 3.20 GHz
• B-Core Frequency
  1.80 GHz 2.06 GHz

• GPU name
  Qualcomm Adreno 675 Apple M1 (7 Core)
• GPU frequency
  0.25 GHz 1.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.59 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  7 112
• Shader
  672 896
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  1 2
• Generation
  5 1
• Direct X
  12.0 --
• Technology
  7 nm 5 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2018 Q4/2020

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VP9
  Decode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-4266 LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 16 GB
• Memory channels
  4 (Quad Channel) 2 (Dual Channel)
• Bandwidth
  -- 68.2 GB/s
• ECC
  No No
• PCIe
  4.0
• AES-NI
  No Yes

• TDP (PL1 / PBP)
  7 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 20 W
• TDP down
  -- 10 W

• Technology
  7 nm 5 nm
• Chip design
  Chiplet Chiplet
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB 16.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  3.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Kryo 490 M1
• Operating systems
  Android, Windows 10 (ARM) macOS
• Virtualization
  None Apple Virtualization Framework
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
• Release date
  Q4/2019 Q4/2020
• Part Number
  -- APL 1102