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Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930AB vs Apple A6

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930AB

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930AB is a high clocked dual-core ARM based SoC for smartphones. It integrates two Krait 300 CPU cores clocked at max. 1.7 GHz (the MSM8930 offers only Krait 200 cores at 1.2 GHz) and an Adreno 305 GPU. The whole chip is produced in 28nm LP at TSMC.

Apple A6

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The Apple A6 is a dual-core SoC found in the iPhone 5 with ARM compatible CPU cores. The A6 was developed by Apple and supports the extended ARMv7s instruction set. The clock rate of the CPU is between 800 to 1200 MHz depending on the CPU load. The integrated GPU is a PowerVR SGX543MP3 at 266 MHz.

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ModelQualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930ABApple A6
SeriesQualcomm SnapdragonApple
CodenameARMv7
Series:
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064A compare1.5 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8928 compare1.6 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 APQ8028 compare1.6 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro MSM8960T compare1.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930AB « 1.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus APQ8060A compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8260A compare1.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8926 compare1.2 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8226 compare1.2 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 APQ8026 compare1.2 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8930 compare1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8230 compare1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8227 compare1 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8660 compare1.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8260 compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 QSD8250 compare1 GHz1 / 1 cores ARMv7
HiSilicon Kirin 9000W compare1.53 - 2.49 GHz12 / 12 cores
UNISOC Tiger T310 compare1.8 - 2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK3288 compare1.8 GHz4 / 4 cores
Apple A6x compare1.4 GHz2 cores
Apple A6 « 1 GHz2 cores
Apple S5 compare2 / 2 cores
HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 compare1.2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK3066 1.5 GHz compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Amlogic AML8726-MX compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK3168 compare1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK2918 1.2 GHz compare1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
ARM Cortex A8 1.2 GHz compare1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
Telechips TCC8803 1GHz compare1 GHz1 / 1 cores
Loongson 2F 900MHz compare0.9 GHz1 / 1 cores
CSR8670 compare0.08 GHz2 cores
ARM Cortex-M4 compare cores
HiSilicon Hi6262 compare cores
DK3.5+ST compare2 cores
unknown compare cores
Clock1700 MHz1000 MHz
L1 Cache64 KB
L2 Cache1 MB
Cores / Threads2 / 22
Technology28 nm32 nm
FeaturesHSPA+, EDGE, GSM, GPRS, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, FM
iGPUQualcomm Adreno 305
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
min: 5181     avg: 6302     median: 6860 (6%)     max: 6864 Points
116%
A6 +
7961 Points (6%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
min: 5397     avg: 6193     median: 6192.5 (5%)     max: 6988 Points
126%
A6 +
7816 Points (6%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 A6 +
1273 Points (2%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 A6 +
min: 701     avg: 706     median: 705.5 (14%)     max: 710 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
min: 593     avg: 680     median: 716 (6%)     max: 731 Points
131%
A6 +
940 Points (8%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
min: 1527     avg: 1894     median: 2034 (18%)     max: 2121 Points
92%
A6 +
1867 Points (17%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
min: 244     avg: 1983     median: 2853 (6%)     max: 2853 Points
74%
A6 +
2114 Points (4%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
min: 898     avg: 1113     median: 1211 (2%)     max: 1229 Points
104%
A6 +
1261 Points (3%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
min: 1394     avg: 1740     median: 1907 (5%)     max: 1919 Points
86%
A6 +
1648 Points (4%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
min: 241.6     avg: 296     median: 298.5 (10%)     max: 347.8 MFLOPS
177%
A6 +
min: 484     avg: 530     median: 529.5 (18%)     max: 575 MFLOPS
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
min: 153.8     avg: 172.7     median: 171.1 (17%)     max: 193.2 MFLOPS
197%
A6 +
min: 309.4     avg: 337.3     median: 337.3 (33%)     max: 365.2 MFLOPS
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
34416 ms (40%)
139%
A6 +
14535 ms (17%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
min: 701     avg: 1047     median: 1117.5 (12%)     max: 1252 ms
105%
A6 +
min: 714     avg: 722     median: 722 (8%)     max: 730 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
min: 723     avg: 955     median: 954.5 (9%)     max: 1186 ms
100%
A6 +
935 ms (9%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
0 Points (0%)
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
6958 points (16%)
AnTuTu v3 - AnTuTu v3 CPU
min: 4032     avg: 5115     median: 5644 (37%)     max: 5669 Points
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
min: 186     avg: 266     median: 266 (8%)     max: 346 Iter./s
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
min: 4389     avg: 4822     median: 4821.5 (16%)     max: 5254 Iter./s
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
min: 4329     avg: 6192     median: 7051 (1%)     max: 7195 Points
355%
A6 +
24996 Points (3%)

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930AB → 100% n=13

Average Benchmarks Apple A6 → 139% n=13

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Redaktion, 2017-09- 8 (Update: 2023-07- 1)