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Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM8939

Qualcomm Snapdragon 626

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 (SD626) is a mid-range octa-core SoC with eight ARM Cortex-A53 cpu cores at up to 2.2 GHz, an Adreno 506 GPU, a DDR3L-1866 memory controller and a X9 LTE (Cat 7, 4G+, 300 Mbps down, 150 Mbps up) modem. Furthermore, the chip supports 802.11ac WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1. It is manufactured in 14nm FinFet. The processor performance should be a bit higher than the average Snapdragon 625, due to the 200 MHz higher maximum clock speed.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 (SDM636) is a mid-range octa-core SoC with eight custom Kryo 260 cores at up to 1.8 GHz, an Adreno 509 GPU, a LPDDR4-2666 memory controller (1333 MHz) and a X12 LTE (Cat 12/13, 300 Mbps down, 150 Mbps up) modem. Furthermore, the chip supports 802.11ac WiFi and Bluetooth 5.0. It is manufactured in 14nm FinFet. Qualcomm states a 40% faster performance compared to the old Snapdragon 630 (8x ARM Cortex-A53).

Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM8939

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM8939 is a mid-range ARMv8-based SoC largely for Android tablets and smartphones. Announced in February 2014, the S615 is one of the first 64-bit capable SoCs from Qualcomm. In addition to 8 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 eight cores of the Snapdragon 615 are divided into two quad-core clusters, each optimized for a different operating point. While one cluster can clock up to 1.7 GHz to handle more demanding applications, the other cluster is limited to a maximum of 1.0 GHz for energy-saving purposes. All eight cores can be active at the same time, although most applications aren't parallelized to support 8 cores efficiently.

Overall, the Snapdragon 615 offers 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 615 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 2048 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 615 is manufactured by TSMC in a 28 nm LP process. According to the specifications, we expect a medium or medium-high power consumption for use in medium-sized or larger smartphones and tablets.

ModelQualcomm Snapdragon 626Qualcomm Snapdragon 636Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM8939
SeriesQualcomm SnapdragonQualcomm SnapdragonQualcomm Snapdragon
CodenameCortex-A53Kryo 260Cortex-A53
Series: Snapdragon Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6302.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 « 2.2 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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6652.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Kryo 260
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6621.8 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Kryo 260
Qualcomm Snapdragon 6602.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Kryo 260
Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 « 1.8 GHz8 / 8 cores Kryo 260
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 MSM8939 « 1.7 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
Clock2200 MHz1800 MHz1700 MHz
Cores / Threads8 / 88 / 88 / 8
Technology14 nm14 nm28 nm
FeaturesAdreno 506 GPU, 802.11ac WLAN, Bluetooth 4.1, LTE Cat. 7, Dual-Channel LPDDR3-1866 Memory ControllerAdreno 509 GPU, X12 LTE Modem, Hexagon 680 DSP, Spectra 160 ISPAdreno 405 GPU, 802.11ac WLAN, Bluetooth, LTE, NFC, GPS/GLOSNASS/BeiDou, 32/64 Bit LPDDR3 Memory Controller
iGPUQualcomm Adreno 506Qualcomm Adreno 509Qualcomm Adreno 405 ( - 550 MHz)
ArchitectureARMARMARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.qualcomm.comwww.qualcomm.comwww.qualcomm.com

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
min: 5569     avg: 7208     median: 7132.5 (6%)     max: 8902 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
min: 5564     avg: 6969     median: 7003 (6%)     max: 9155 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
100%
626 +
min: 16939     avg: 17078     median: 17084 (14%)     max: 17204 Points
min: 5758     avg: 8220     median: 7460.5 (6%)     max: 15857 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
100%
1 626 +
min: 2045     avg: 2079     median: 2083.5 (25%)     max: 2105 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
100%
626 +
min: 2065     avg: 2086     median: 2085.5 (24%)     max: 2107 Points
991 Points (11%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 626 +
187 Points (1%)
149%
1 SD 636 +
278 Points (1%)
Geekbench 5.0 - Geekbench 5.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 626 +
1098 Points (3%)
114%
1 SD 636 +
1256 Points (4%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 626 +
min: 907     avg: 926     median: 928.5 (9%)     max: 939 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 626 +
min: 4369     avg: 4481     median: 4496.5 (5%)     max: 4562 Points
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 626 +
889 Points (12%)
626 Points (9%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 626 +
4362 Points (11%)
1561 Points (4%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 626 +
4804 Points (8%)
min: 2291     avg: 2667     median: 2720 (4%)     max: 3046 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 626 +
837 Points (13%)
min: 676     avg: 689     median: 681 (10%)     max: 717 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
min: 2103     avg: 2483     median: 2370 (4%)     max: 3202 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
min: 539     avg: 674     median: 638 (12%)     max: 940 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
100%
626 +
868 Points (7%)
2016 Points (16%)
523 Points (4%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
100%
626 +
1883 Points (17%)
2801 Points (25%)
1615 Points (15%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
100%
626 +
7485 Points (15%)
8155 Points (16%)
4043 Points (8%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
100%
626 +
4212 Points (8%)
4063 Points (8%)
2255 Points (5%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
100%
626 +
4557 Points (12%)
5063 Points (13%)
2579 Points (7%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
min: 257.9     avg: 317.6     median: 280.6 (9%)     max: 490 MFLOPS
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
min: 116.6     avg: 212.9     median: 218.3 (21%)     max: 420 MFLOPS
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
100%
626 +
min: 7667     avg: 8504     median: 8761.5 (10%)     max: 8825 ms
min: 4105     avg: 4688     median: 4739.5 (6%)     max: 5066 ms
min: 5061     avg: 13398     median: 13126 (15%)     max: 20190 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
9121 ms (100%)
min: 793     avg: 1235     median: 1213 (13%)     max: 1688 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
1178 ms (11%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
100%
626 +
min: 4424     avg: 4760     median: 4705.5 (4%)     max: 5204 Points
min: 8163     avg: 8665     median: 8559 (8%)     max: 9746 Points
min: 2672     avg: 3696     median: 3411 (3%)     max: 6999 Points
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
100%
1 SD 636 +
min: 46     avg: 54.4     median: 54 (11%)     max: 61 Points
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Metal
min: 924     avg: 1197     median: 1184.5 (32%)     max: 1493 Points
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Multicore Beta
min: 817     avg: 1275     median: 1238.5 (28%)     max: 1805 Points
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Browser
min: 1849     avg: 2628     median: 2521.5 (33%)     max: 3619 Points
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
min: 17712     avg: 20407     median: 19790 (46%)     max: 23719 points
AnTuTu v5 - AnTuTu v5 Total Score
min: 27825     avg: 33966     median: 32024 (32%)     max: 49293 Points
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
100%
626 +
min: 63428     avg: 66058     median: 66613 (23%)     max: 67578 Points
min: 29823     avg: 33247     median: 33119 (11%)     max: 36800 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
100%
626 +
5406 Points (17%)
4376 Points (13%)
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
100%
626 +
21477 Points (26%)
14864 Points (18%)
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
100%
626 +
13693 Points (4%)
8960 Points (3%)
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
100%
626 +
41767 Points (26%)
26765 Points (16%)
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
100%
626 +
82343 Points (15%)
54965 Points (10%)
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 UX
100%
1 SD 636 +
27466 Points (23%)
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 MEM
100%
1 SD 636 +
30326 Points (24%)
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 GPU
100%
1 SD 636 +
24483 Points (4%)
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 CPU
100%
1 SD 636 +
62945 Points (23%)
AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 Total Score
100%
1 SD 636 +
145220 Points (14%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
min: 260     avg: 453.3     median: 417 (13%)     max: 683 Iter./s
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
min: 6830     avg: 12463     median: 12017 (39%)     max: 18542 Iter./s
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
100%
1 SD 636 +
min: 157795     avg: 157981     median: 157981 (21%)     max: 158167 Points
min: 10592     avg: 12997     median: 12996.5 (2%)     max: 15401 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
100%
626 +
min: 4660     avg: 4848     median: 4903 (32%)     max: 4924 Points
3293 Points (22%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
100%
626 +
min: 5621     avg: 5849     median: 5839 (29%)     max: 6096 Points
min: 3045     avg: 3504     median: 3536 (18%)     max: 3959 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Computer Vision
100%
1 SD 636 +
min: 3056     avg: 3090     median: 3071.5 (16%)     max: 3160 Points
1756 Points (9%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage
100%
1 SD 636 +
min: 3406     avg: 5546     median: 5299.5 (11%)     max: 8180 Points
3900 Points (8%)

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 → 100% n=17

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 → 134% n=17

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM8939 → 64% n=17

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