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Qualcomm Snapdragon 610 MSM8936 vs Allwinner A523 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 (MSM8937)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 610 MSM8936

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 610 MSM8936 is a mid-range ARMv8-based SoC largely for Android tablets and smartphones. Announced in February 2014, the S610 is one of the first 64-bit capable SoCs from Qualcomm. In addition to 4 Cortex-A53 CPU cores at up to 1.7 GHz, the SoC integrates an Adreno 405 GPU with a 2x 32-bit memory controller (LPDDR3-1600, 12.8 GB/s) and supports Wi-Fi (802.11ac), Bluetooth 4.0, UMTS and LTE.

CPU

The Cortex-A53 is the successor to the very popular Cortex-A7 design. In addition to the new 64-bit capable ARMv8 ISA, the cores offer a variety of other improvements such as better branch prediction. This leads to a significantly higher performance per clock, which is even above the older Cortex-A9.

The four cores of the Snapdragon 610 are clocked at up to 1.7 GHz, offering a performance similar to that of the older Snapdragon 600 (Krait architecture).

GPU

Another new feature is the integrated graphics unit named Adreno 405 (550 MHz). The Adreno 400 series has been substantially redesigned and supports DirectX 11.2 (FL 11_1) including hardware tessellation, OpenGL ES 3.1, and OpenCL 1.2. Furthermore, the performance has been significantly improved, which is now similar to the Adreno 320 and PowerVR G6200.

Features

The Snapdragon 610 offers numerous wireless technologies such as Bluetooth 4.0 and WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n/ac as well as a Multi-SIM cellular modem supporting LTE cat. 4 (up to 150 Mbps), WCDMA, CDMA, EV-DO, TD-SCDMA and GSM/EDGE.

The SoC can encode and decode 1080p videos using dedicated hardware and stream content to displays with up to 2560 x 1600 pixels. A large number of video codecs including H.265 (playback only) will be supported. The camera ISP can handle sensors with up to 21 MP.

Power Consumption

The Snapdragon 610 is manufactured by TSMC in a 28 nm LP process. According to the specifications, we expect a medium power consumption for use in medium-sized smartphones and tablets.

Allwinner A523

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The Allwinner A523 is a very affordable ARM-based SoC for smartphones and tablets. The eight-core processor presented in 2023 consists of two quad-core clusters, each made up of 4 Cortex-A55 cores.

The faster quad cluster operates at a clock frequency of up to 1.8 GHz and offers 128 KB L2 cache per A55 core, while the second cluster clocks at up to 1.4 GHz and only offers 64 KB L2 cache per core.

In another version of the Allwinner A523, the first quad cluster clocks at up to 2.0 GHz. The ARM Mali-G57 MC1 is used as the graphics unit, which supports OpenGL 3.2, Vulkan 1.0 and OpenCL 2.0. A XuanTie E906 RISC-V PMU is also integrated.

The Allwinner SoC can control up to 4 GB DDR3/DDR4/LPDDR2/LPDDR3/LPDDR4/LPDDR4X RAM and eMMC 5.1 flash memory. In addition to PCIe 2.1, USB 3.1 Gen. 1 and Gigabit Ethernet are also supported as interfaces. There is also an H264/H265 video decoder (up to 4K at 60 frames per second) and an H264 encoder (up to 4K at 25 frames per second).

The Allwinner A523 is manufactured with a 22 nm structure width.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 (MSM8937)

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 (SD430) is a lower mainstream SoC for (Android based) smartphones and tablets. Contrary to the Snapdragon 630, it is still manufactured in a 28-nm process and also consists of an octa-core CPU part with ARM Cortex-A53 cores. However, they are only clocked at up to 1.4 GHz. The integrated X6 LTE modem supports Cat. 4 with maximum transfer rates of 150 Mbps (downstream) and 75 Mbps (upstream). The SoC also includes an Adreno 505 GPU with support for Vulkan and OpenGL ES 3.1. WiFi 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.1 are supported as well. The memory controller supports LPDDR3 clocked at 800 MHz (so probably dual-channel DDRL-1600). 

ModelQualcomm Snapdragon 610 MSM8936Allwinner A523Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 (MSM8937)
SeriesQualcomm Snapdragon Qualcomm Snapdragon
CodenameCortex-A53Cortex-A55Cortex-A53
Series: Snapdragon Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6302.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6262.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6252 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4392 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4501.8 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4292 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 MSM89521.5 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 MSM8939v21.7 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM89391.7 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 610 MSM8936 « 1.7 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4351.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 (MSM8937)1.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 415 MSM89291.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 (MSM8917)1.4 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 MSM89161.4 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 APQ80161.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Samsung Exynos 850 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A55
Allwinner A523 « 0.48 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores1 MB L3 Cortex-A55
UNISOC SC9863A1.2 - 1.6 GHz8 / 8 cores512 KB L3 Cortex-A55
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6302.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6262.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6252 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4392 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4501.8 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4292 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 MSM89521.5 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 MSM8939v21.7 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM89391.7 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 610 MSM89361.7 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4351.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 (MSM8937) « 1.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 415 MSM89291.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 (MSM8917)1.4 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 MSM89161.4 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 APQ80161.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Clock1700 MHz480 - 2000 MHz1400 MHz
Cores / Threads4 / 48 / 8
4 x 1.8 GHz ARM Cortex-A55
4 x 1.4 GHz ARM Cortex-A55
8 / 8
Technology28 nm22 nm28 nm
FeaturesAdreno 405 GPU, 802.11ac WLAN, Bluetooth 4.0, LTE Cat. 4, NFC, GPS/GLOSNASS/BeiDou, 2x 32 Bit LPDDR2/3 Memory ControllerH.264 4K25 Encoding, 4K30 decoding, H.265 4K60 decoding, 32 Bit LPDDR4x memory controller, SD 3.0 / eMMC 5.1, Trustzone, Secure Boot, Security ID, USB 3.1, PCIe 2.1, RISC-V 200 MHzAdreno 505 GPU, 802.11ac WLAN, Bluetooth 4.1, LTE Cat. 4, Dual-Channel LPDDR3-1600 Memory Controller
iGPUQualcomm Adreno 405 ( - 550 MHz)ARM Mali-G57 MP1Qualcomm Adreno 505
ArchitectureARMARMARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.qualcomm.comwww.allwinnertech.comwww.qualcomm.com
L1 Cache512 KB
L2 Cache768 KB
L3 Cache1 MB

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
100%
1 430 +
min: 8253     avg: 9093     median: 9045 (8%)     max: 10364 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
100%
1 A523 +
min: 1517     avg: 1645     median: 1645 (19%)     max: 1773 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
100%
1 A523 +
1883 Points (22%)
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 Single-Core
100%
1 A523 +
min: 227     avg: 229     median: 229 (6%)     max: 231 Points
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 Multi-Core
100%
1 A523 +
min: 852     avg: 853     median: 853 (3%)     max: 854 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 A523 +
min: 167     avg: 169     median: 169 (7%)     max: 171 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 A523 +
min: 778     avg: 797     median: 796.5 (1%)     max: 815 Points
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 A523 +
171 Points (1%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 A523 +
600 Points (2%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 A523 +
min: 853     avg: 865     median: 865 (9%)     max: 877 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 A523 +
min: 2498     avg: 2942     median: 2941.5 (3%)     max: 3385 Points
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 A523 +
827 Points (11%)
76%
1 430 +
min: 613     avg: 629     median: 628.5 (9%)     max: 644 Points
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 A523 +
2451 Points (6%)
77%
1 430 +
min: 1706     avg: 1896     median: 1895.5 (5%)     max: 2085 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 A523 +
3276 Points (5%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 A523 +
965 Points (14%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
100%
1 A523 +
min: 8641.2     avg: 8707     median: 8706.8 (10%)     max: 8772.4 ms
94%
1 430 +
min: 10396     avg: 12677     median: 13194 (15%)     max: 14709 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
100%
1 A523 +
min: 5911     avg: 6113     median: 6112.5 (5%)     max: 6314 Points
54%
1 430 +
min: 2604     avg: 3194     median: 3293.5 (3%)     max: 3438 Points
WebXPRT 4 - WebXPRT 4 Score
100%
1 A523 +
min: 26     avg: 28     median: 28 (8%)     max: 30 Points
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
100%
1 A523 +
41 Points (9%)
71%
1 430 +
min: 24     avg: 41.7     median: 29 (6%)     max: 72 Points
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
100%
1 430 +
min: 42798     avg: 45027     median: 44963.5 (15%)     max: 47066 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
100%
1 430 +
min: 3999     avg: 4992     median: 4792 (15%)     max: 6830 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
100%
1 430 +
min: 14313     avg: 16454     median: 16194 (20%)     max: 17949 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
100%
1 430 +
min: 8556     avg: 9082     median: 9083 (3%)     max: 9583 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
100%
1 430 +
min: 14989     avg: 26579     median: 27811 (17%)     max: 28218 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
100%
1 430 +
min: 44992     avg: 56835     median: 58282 (10%)     max: 59990 Points
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 Total Score
100%
1 A523 +
min: 126757     avg: 131411     median: 131411 (8%)     max: 136065 Points
Antutu v9 - AnTuTu v9 CPU
100%
1 A523 +
min: 34895     avg: 37521     median: 37521 (10%)     max: 40147 Points
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
100%
1 A523 +
2085 Points (0%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 random write internal
100%
1 A523 +
8.6 MB/s (6%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 seq write internal
100%
1 A523 +
87.8 MB/s (3%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 random read internal
100%
1 A523 +
13 MB/s (16%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 seq read internal
100%
1 A523 +
127.1 MB/s (4%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 score
100%
1 A523 +
7006 Points (11%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 3.0
100%
1 A523 +
min: 5224     avg: 5487     median: 5486.5 (25%)     max: 5749 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work 2.0 Battery Life
100%
1 430 +
917 min (17%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Computer Vision
100%
1 430 +
1783 Points (9%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage
100%
1 430 +
3256 Points (7%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
100%
1 430 +
min: 3408     avg: 3668     median: 3636 (24%)     max: 3892 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
100%
1 430 +
min: 3347     avg: 4577     median: 4689 (23%)     max: 5290 Points
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
100%
1 A523 +
227 Points (9%)
Power Consumption - Geekbench 5.5 Power Consumption 150cd *
100%
1 A523 +
5.8 Watt (3%)
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption 150cd 1min *
100%
1 A523 +
1.2 Watt (1%)

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