Key Differences
Advantages of Apple M1
Advantages of Qualcomm Snapdragon X (X1-26-100)
Specifications
Performance
| L3 Cache | - | 6MB (shared) |
| Integrated GPU | Apple M1 GPU | Qualcomm Adreno X1-45 |
| TGP | 15 W | 30 W |
Display
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Other
| File compression | 936.1 MB/sec | 985.1 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 71.3 Klines/sec | 83.5 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 204.8 pages/sec | 271 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 241.1 Mpixels/sec | 299.5 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 242.5 pages/sec | 197.2 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 34.8 images/sec | 47.5 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 79.9 images/sec | 106.3 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 9.28 Mpixels/sec | 13.1 Mpixels/sec |
| Integer math | 33.3 GOps/sec | 38 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 35.6 GOps/sec | 57.7 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 142M Primes/sec | 203M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 21.1M Strings/sec | 23.1M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 8.6 GBytes/sec | 9.5 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 168.5 MBytes/sec | 165.3 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 1360 Frames/sec | 1341 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 6.9B Matrices/sec | 11.1B Matrices/sec |
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 31.8 PPW | - |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 626.1 PPW | - |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 1010.4 PPW | - |
| Blender / Watt | 6.81 PPW | - |
| Vendor | Apple | Qualcomm |
| Released | November 20, 2020 | January 7, 2025 |
| Instruction Set | ARMv8 | ARMv9 |
| Codename | Apple M1 | Snapdragon X |
| Rival Equivalent | - | Apple M2 |
| P-Cores | 4 | 8 |
| P-Threads | 4 | 8 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 3.2 GHz | 3.0 GHz |
| E-Cores | 4 | - |
| E-Threads | 4 | - |
| Base Frequency (E) | 2.1 GHz | - |
| Total Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Total Threads | 8 | 8 |
| Multiplier | - | 30x |
| L1 Cache | 192K (per core) | - |
| L2 Cache | 12MB (shared) | 12MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
| Transistors | 16 billions | - |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 4 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 14 W | - |
| Max. Boost TDP (PL2) | - | - |
| Socket | Apple M-Socket | Custom |
| Peak Temperature | - | - |
| Integrated Graphics | Apple M1 GPU | Qualcomm Adreno X1-45 |
| GPU Base Clock | 450 MHz | 280 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1278 MHz | 1107 MHz |
| Shading Units | 1024 | 768 |
| TMUs | 64 | 48 |
| ROPs | 32 | 24 |
| Execution Units | 128 | 3 |
| Memory Types | - LPDDR4X-4266 | - LPDDR5X-8448 |
| Max. Memory Size | 16 GB | 32 GB |
| Memory Channels | 2 | 2 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 68.25 GB/s | 135 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | No |
| PCI Express Version | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| Model number | - | X1-26-100 |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (P) | - | - |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (E) | - | - |
| Bus Frequency | - | - |
| Official Site | - | - |
| PCI Express Lanes | - | 12 |