Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 vs Apple M1 Max (32-GPU). 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 7/8 Gen 1 Apple M1
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  1 1

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.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  6 / 6 10 / 10
• Core architecture
  hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A-Core
  1x 8x Firestorm
• B-Core
  2x 2x Icestorm
• C-Core
  3x --
• 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
  no iGPU Apple M1 Max (32 Core)
• GPU frequency
  1.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  512
• Shader
  4096
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 32 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  1
• Technology
  5 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2021

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 No
• AVC
  No Decode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) and Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR5-6400 LPDDR5-6400
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  4 4
• ECC
  No No
• PCIe
  4.0
• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 and Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  30 W
• TDP up
  -- 60 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv9-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB 28.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Cortex-X2 / -A710 / -A510 M1
• Technology
  4 nm 5 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q2/2022 Q3/2021
• Part Number
  SM8475 APL 1104