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Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-01

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 15 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 10 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 1.80 GHz

292

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

2,397

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 1.80 GHz

1,078

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

12,439

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

8C / 8T · 1.80 GHz

322

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

1,783

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

8C / 8T · 1.80 GHz

1,369

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

12,693

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Qualcomm Adreno 509

184

Apple M1 Max (32 Core)

10,600

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

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

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 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 636	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
Family	Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 (1)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Kryo 260	M1
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor
Successor		Apple M2 Max (38-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 636	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	10 / 10
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Kryo 260 Gold 1.80 GHz	8x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Kryo 260 Silver 1.60 GHz	2x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache		28.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 636	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
GPU name	Qualcomm Adreno 509	Apple M1 Max (32 Core)
GPU frequency	0.72 - 0.72 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	/ 128	512 / 4096
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	0	5
Max. GPU Memory		32 GB
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q2/2017	Q3/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 636	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
AI hardware	Qualcomm AI engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	Hexagon DSP	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 636	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
Memory	(10.6 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (409.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 636	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
TDP		45 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Qualcomm Snapdragon 636	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	Android	macOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions		Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q4/2017	Q3/2021
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 is 4.4 stars (7 ratings), while Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) has received 4.8 stars (211 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636
8C / 8T · 1.80 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
10C / 10T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★