Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Plus Gen 3 vs Apple M1. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Family
  Qualcomm Snapdragon Apple M series
• CPU group
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Plus Apple M1
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  3 1
• Predecessor
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 --

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• Overclocking
  No No

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Unknown Apple M1 (8 Core)
• GPU frequency
  0.70 GHz 3.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  0 128
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 8 GB
• Max. displays
  0 2
• Generation
  1
• Technology
  5 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2020

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple M1 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Plus Gen 3. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-4266LPDDR5-6400 LPDDR4X-4266
• Max. Memory
  16 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Plus Gen 3 and Apple M1 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

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

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Plus Gen 3 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Plus Gen 3, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
• L2-Cache
  -- 16.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cortex-A78 / Cortex-A55 M1
• Technology
  6 nm 5 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q4/2020