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Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 vs Apple M2 Max (38-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-07-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 7 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 Max (38-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 5 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M2 Max (38-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 1.80 GHz

166

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

2,689

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 1.80 GHz

770

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

14,207

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 1.80 GHz

151

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

1,874

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 1.80 GHz

941

12C / 12T · 3.50 GHz

15,506

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Qualcomm Adreno 506

115

Apple M2 Max (38 Core)

13,490

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 450	Apple M2 Max (38-GPU)
Family	Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 (1)	Apple M2 (8)
Architecture	Cortex-A53	M2
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor		Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 450	Apple M2 Max (38-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	12 / 12
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	8x Cortex-A53 1.80 GHz	8x Avalanche 0.66 - 3.50 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Blizzard 0.60 - 2.42 GHz
L2-Cache		36.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 450	Apple M2 Max (38-GPU)
GPU name	Qualcomm Adreno 506	Apple M2 Max (38 Core)
GPU frequency	0.60 - 0.60 GHz	0.45 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	/ 96	608 / 4864
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	0	5
Max. GPU Memory		96 GB
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q4/2015	Q1/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 450	Apple M2 Max (38-GPU)
AI hardware	Qualcomm AI engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	Hexagon 546	16 Neural cores @ 15.8 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 450	Apple M2 Max (38-GPU)
Memory	LPDDR3-1866 (7.5 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (409.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	6 GB	96 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0 x 32
PCIe Bandwidth		63.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 450	Apple M2 Max (38-GPU)
TDP		40 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 450	Apple M2 Max (38-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	Android	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions		Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q3/2017	Q1/2023
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 is 3.6 stars (16 ratings), while Apple M2 Max (38-GPU) has received 4.8 stars (91 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450
8C / 8T · 1.80 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M2 Max (38-GPU)
12C / 12T · 0.66 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★