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Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AA vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 APQ8074AB

Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 is an ARM-based SoC for tablets and smartphonesIt is built at TSMC in a 28nm HPM (High Performance Mobile) HKMG process, whereas the Snapdragon 600 was manufactured in 28nm LP. In addition to 4 CPU cores with a clock speed of up to 2.3 GHz, the chip also integrates an Adreno 330 GPU up to 450 MHz, an LPDDR3-1600 memory controller and various radio modules (UMTS/LTE, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS).

Processor 

The CPU portion is based on Qualcomm's Krait architecture, which is compatible with ARMv7 ISA. Compared to the Snapdragon 600 (Krait 300), the new Krait 400 cores of the Snapdragon 800 have been tweaked just slightly with faster L2 cache. Thanks to a clock rate of up to 2.3 GHz and a high performance per MHz somewhere between an ARM Cortex-A9 and a Cortex-A15, the Snapdragon 800 offers very strong CPU performance. The S800 competes with the Nvidia Tegra 4, Samsung Exynos 5420 and Apple A7 and is therefore one of the fastest ARM SoCs on the market as of 2013.

Graphics

Another difference between the Snapdragon 600 and 800 is the graphics unit. While the S600 implements an Adreno 320 (400 to 450 MHz), the S800 features the faster Adreno 330 (450 MHz). Both GPUs offer the same amount of texture units (8 TMUs), but the Adreno 330 has 50 percent more shaders (probably 6x SIMD16 vs. 4x SIMD16 of the previous generation). In conjunction with the higher memory bandwidth, the performance is significantly better. As a result, the Adreno 330 is slightly faster than the Mali-T628 (Exynos 5420) and the PowerVR G6430 (Apple A7). Depending on the device and cooling, however, the performance may vary. The GPU supports OpenGL ES 3.0 as well as OpenCL 1.2.

Features 

Furthermore, the MSM8974 supports many wireless technologies: Bluetooth 4.0, WLAN, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4/5 GHz), GSM (GPRS, EDGE), W-CDMA/UMTS (HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA+, cat.29 DC-HSPA+), MBMS, cat.4 LTE, CDMA2000 (1X RTT, 1 × EV-DO Rel.0/Rev.A/Rev.B, 1× EV-DO Rev.A MC, 1× Adv Rev.A/Rev.B) and TD-SCDMA. 

The MSM8974 can encode and play UHD 4K videos in 3840x2160 at 30 FPS (120 Mbps H.264 High Profile) sumiltaneously via dedicated hardware. Moreover, it supports both USB 2.0 and 3.0 and cameras up to 55 megapixels and stereoscopic 3D.

Power Consumption

Thanks to the new 28nm HPM HKMG process, the energy efficiency has been improved significantly compared to its LP 28nm S600 predecessor. Depending on the field of application, the maximum power consumption should be about 3 W for smartphones or 4 W or greater for tablets. This should be similar to comparable ARM SoCs currently in the market.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AA

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AA is an ARM-based SoC for tablets and smartphonesIt is built at TSMC in a 28nm HPM (High Performance Mobile) HKMG process, whereas the Snapdragon 600 was manufactured in 28nm LP. In addition to 4 CPU cores with a clock speed of up to 2.26 GHz, the chip also integrates an Adreno 330 GPU up to 450 MHz, an LPDDR3-1600 memory controller and various radio modules (UMTS/LTE, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS). Compared to other S801 SoCs (e.g the MSM8974AB), the MSM8974AA offers the lowest CPU-, GPU- and memory clock rates.

Processor 

The CPU portion is based on Qualcomm's Krait architecture, which is compatible with the ARMv7 ISA. Compared to the Snapdragon 600 (Krait 300), the new Krait 400 cores of the Snapdragon 800/801 have been tweaked just slightly with faster L2 cache. Thanks to a clock rate of up to 2.26 GHz and a high performance per MHz somewhere between an ARM Cortex-A9 and a Cortex-A15, the Snapdragon 801 offers very strong CPU performance. The S801 competes with the Nvidia Tegra 4, Samsung Exynos 5420 and Apple A7 and is therefore one of the fastest ARM SoCs on the market as of 2013.

Graphics

Another difference between the Snapdragon 600 and 800/801 is the graphics unit. While the S600 implements an Adreno 320 (400 to 450 MHz), the S800 /S801 feature the faster Adreno 330 (MSM8974Aa: 450 MHz). Both GPUs offer the same amount of texture units (8 TMUs), but the Adreno 330 has 50 percent more shaders (probably 6x SIMD16 vs. 4x SIMD16 of the previous generation)In conjunction with the higher memory bandwidth, the performance is significantly better. As a result, the Adreno 330 is slightly faster than the Mali-T628 (Exynos 5420) and the PowerVR G6430 (Apple A7). Depending on the device and cooling, however, the performance may vary. The GPU supports OpenGL ES 3.0 as well as OpenCL 1.2.

Features 

Furthermore, the MSM8974AA supports many wireless technologies: Bluetooth 4.0, WLAN, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4/5 GHz), GSM (GPRS, EDGE), W-CDMA/UMTS (HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA+, cat.29 DC-HSPA+), MBMS, cat.4 LTE, CDMA2000 (1X RTT, 1 × EV-DO Rel.0/Rev.A/Rev.B, 1× EV-DO Rev.A MC, 1× Adv Rev.A/Rev.B) and TD-SCDMA. 

The MSM8974AA can encode and play UHD 4K videos in 3840x2160 at 30 FPS (120 Mbps H.264 High Profile) simultaneously via dedicated hardware. Moreover, it supports both USB 2.0 and 3.0 and cameras up to 55 megapixels and stereoscopic 3D.

Power Consumption

Thanks to the new 28nm HPM HKMG process, the energy efficiency has been improved significantly compared to its LP 28nm S600 predecessor. Depending on the field of application, the maximum power consumption should be about 3 W for smartphones or 4 W or greater for tablets. This should be similar to comparable ARM SoCs currently in the market. However, the MSM8974AA will likely to need a little less power than the other S801 SoCs due to the lower clock rates.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 APQ8074AB

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 APQ8074AB is an ARM-based SoC for (mainly android) tabletsIt is built at TSMC in a 28nm HPM (High Performance Mobile) HKMG process and includes 4 Krait 400 cores at up to 2.45 GHz and a Adreno 330 at up to 578 MHz. Furthermore, the SoC integrates a LPDDR3-1866 memory controller as well as WLAN 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS (but no cellular modem). Compared to the Snapdragon 800 chips like the MSM8974AB, the 801 offers a higher clock rate for GPU and CPU and support for eMMC 5.0.

Processor 

The CPU portion is based on Qualcomm's Krait architecture, which is compatible with the ARMv7 ISA. Compared to the Snapdragon 600 (Krait 300), the new Krait 400 cores of the Snapdragon 801 have been tweaked just slightly with faster L2 cache. Thanks to a clock rate of up to 2.36 GHz and a high performance per MHz somewhere between an ARM Cortex-A9 and a Cortex-A15, the Snapdragon 801 offers very strong CPU performance. The S801 competes with the Nvidia Tegra 4, Samsung Exynos 5420 and Apple A7 and is therefore one of the fastest ARM SoCs on the market in the beginning of 2014 (till the Snapdragon 805 arrives).

Graphics

Another difference between the Snapdragon 600 and 800/801 is the graphics unit. While the S600 implements an Adreno 320 (400 to 450 MHz), the S800 and S801 features the faster Adreno 330 (APQ8074AB: 578 MHz). Both GPUs offer the same amount of texture units (8 TMUs), but the Adreno 330 has 50 percent more shaders (probably 6x SIMD16 vs. 4x SIMD16 of the previous generation)In conjunction with the higher memory bandwidth, the performance is significantly better. As a result, the Adreno 330 is slightly faster than the Mali-T628 (Exynos 5420) and comparable to the PowerVR G6430 (Apple A7). Depending on the device and cooling, however, the performance may vary. The GPU supports OpenGL ES 3.0 as well as OpenCL 1.2.

Features 

Furthermore, the MSM8974AC supports the wireless technologies Bluetooth 4.0 as well as WLAN (IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac 2.4/5 GHz). However, the APQ8074AB does not offer an integrated cellular modem.

The Snapdragon 801 can encode and play UHD 4K videos in 3840x2160 at 30 FPS (120 Mbps H.264 High Profile) simultaneously via dedicated hardware. Moreover, it supports both USB 2.0 and 3.0 and cameras up to 55 megapixels and stereoscopic 3D.

Power Consumption

Thanks to the new 28nm HPM HKMG process, the energy efficiency has been improved significantly compared to its LP 28nm S600 predecessor. Depending on the field of application, the maximum power consumption should be about 4 W. This should be similar to comparable ARM SoCs currently in the market. However, the APQ8074AB will likely need a little more power than the slightly lower clocked MSM8974.

ModelQualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AAQualcomm Snapdragon 801 APQ8074AB
SeriesQualcomm SnapdragonQualcomm SnapdragonQualcomm Snapdragon
CodenameKrait 400Krait 400Krait 400
Series: Snapdragon Krait 400
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AC2.45 GHz4 / 4 cores Krait 400
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 APQ8074AB2.36 GHz4 / 4 cores Krait 400
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AB2.36 GHz4 / 4 cores Krait 400
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AA2.26 GHz4 / 4 cores Krait 400
Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 « 2.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Krait 400
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AC2.45 GHz4 / 4 cores Krait 400
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 APQ8074AB2.36 GHz4 / 4 cores Krait 400
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AB2.36 GHz4 / 4 cores Krait 400
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AA « 2.26 GHz4 / 4 cores Krait 400
Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM89742.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Krait 400
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AC2.45 GHz4 / 4 cores Krait 400
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 APQ8074AB « 2.36 GHz4 / 4 cores Krait 400
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AB2.36 GHz4 / 4 cores Krait 400
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AA2.26 GHz4 / 4 cores Krait 400
Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM89742.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Krait 400
Clock2300 MHz2260 MHz2360 MHz
L1 Cache0 MB0 MB0 MB
L2 Cache2 MB2 MB2 MB
Cores / Threads4 / 44 / 44 / 4
Technology28 nm28 nm28 nm
FeaturesAdreno 330 (450 MHz), LTE cat.4, UMTS, MBMS, GSM, CDMA2000, tD-SCDMA, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4/5 GHz), Bluetooth 4.0, 2x 32 Bit LPDDR3-1600 Memory Controller (12.8 GB/s)Adreno 330 (450 MHz), LTE cat.4, UMTS, MBMS, GSM, CDMA2000, tD-SCDMA, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4/5 GHz), Bluetooth 4.0, 2x 32 Bit LPDDR3-1600 Memory Controller (14.9 GB/s)Adreno 330 (578 MHz), 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4/5 GHz), Bluetooth 4.0, 2x 32 Bit LPDDR3-1866 Memory Controller (14.9 GB/s)
iGPUQualcomm Adreno 330 (450 MHz)Qualcomm Adreno 330 (? - 450 MHz)Qualcomm Adreno 330 (578 MHz)
ArchitectureARMARMARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.qualcomm.com

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
min: 5061     avg: 12899     median: 14737 (12%)     max: 17059 Points
4282 Points (3%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
min: 5104     avg: 7863     median: 7865 (6%)     max: 10619 Points
4422 Points (4%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 6632     avg: 14272     median: 14506 (12%)     max: 17257 Points
min: 4301     avg: 10729     median: 10728.5 (9%)     max: 17156 Points
16678 Points (14%)
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
817 Points (9%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
991 Points (10%)
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
2330 Points (3%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
798 Points (11%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
1307 Points (3%)
2570 Points (5%)
2327 Points (4%)
913 Points (18%)
915 Points (18%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
2809 Points (4%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
926 Points (14%)
1786 Points (14%)
3857 Points (35%)
5973 Points (12%)
2692 Points (5%)
3982 Points (10%)
634 MFLOPS (21%)
600 MFLOPS (20%)
425.5 MFLOPS (42%)
347.9 MFLOPS (34%)
min: 7264     avg: 7519     median: 7518.5 (9%)     max: 7773 ms
7427 ms (9%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
min: 534     avg: 813     median: 739 (8%)     max: 1761 ms
1509 ms (17%)
1047 ms (11%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
min: 558     avg: 763     median: 758 (7%)     max: 1087 ms
524 ms (5%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 2714     avg: 3981     median: 4089.5 (4%)     max: 5416 Points
min: 4249     avg: 4530     median: 4529.5 (4%)     max: 4810 Points
4127 Points (4%)
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Metal
min: 1178     avg: 1349     median: 1345 (36%)     max: 1526 Points
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Multicore Beta
min: 1541     avg: 1696     median: 1692.5 (38%)     max: 1856 Points
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Browser
min: 2443     avg: 2662     median: 2660 (35%)     max: 2884 Points
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
min: 11103     avg: 18016     median: 19594 (45%)     max: 21610 points
17321 points (40%)
AnTuTu v3 - AnTuTu v3 CPU
15386 Points (100%)
32525 Points (76%)
AnTuTu v5 - AnTuTu v5 Total Score
min: 32731     avg: 37780     median: 38083 (38%)     max: 43075 Points
40256 Points (41%)
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
34400 Points (12%)
min: 37549     avg: 45006     median: 45006 (15%)     max: 52463 Points
469 Iter./s (14%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
min: 11344     avg: 15203     median: 15791.5 (52%)     max: 17777 Iter./s
17744 Iter./s (58%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Computer Vision
2403 Points (13%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage
2186 Points (5%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
3699 Points (24%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
min: 3525     avg: 3905     median: 3950 (20%)     max: 4241 Points
min: 3036     avg: 3743     median: 3743 (19%)     max: 4450 Points

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 → 100% n=8

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AA → 95% n=8

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 APQ8074AB → 96% n=8

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