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Allwinner A523 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 630

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 630

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 (SDM630) is a mid-range octa-core SoC with eight ARM Cortex-A53 CPU cores at up to 2.2 GHz, an Adreno 508 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. The processor performance should similar to the older Snapdragon 626 which offers similar clock speeds. Compared to the 626, the 630 however supports faster memory and offers faster LTE, Wifi and Bluetooth standards.

ModelAllwinner A523Qualcomm Snapdragon 630
Series Qualcomm Snapdragon
CodenameCortex-A55Cortex-A53
Series: Snapdragon Cortex-A53
Samsung Exynos 850 compare - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A55
Allwinner A523 « 0.48 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores1 MB L3 Cortex-A55
UNISOC SC9863A compare1.2 - 1.6 GHz8 / 8 cores512 KB L3 Cortex-A55
Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 « 2.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 compare2.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 compare2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 compare2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 compare1.8 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 compare2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 MSM8952 compare1.5 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 MSM8939v2 compare1.7 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM8939 compare1.7 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 610 MSM8936 compare1.7 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 compare1.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 (MSM8937) compare1.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 415 MSM8929 compare1.4 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 (MSM8917) compare1.4 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 MSM8916 compare1.4 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 APQ8016 compare1.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Clock480 - 2000 MHz2200 MHz
L1 Cache512 KB
L2 Cache768 KB
L3 Cache1 MB
Cores / Threads8 / 8
4 x 1.8 GHz ARM Cortex-A55
4 x 1.4 GHz ARM Cortex-A55
8 / 8
Technology22 nm14 nm
FeaturesH.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 508 GPU, 802.11ac Wave 2 Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, LTE Cat. 13 (uplink) Cat. 12 (downlink), Dual-Channel LPDDR4 1333 MHz Memory Controller
iGPUARM Mali-G57 MP1Qualcomm Adreno 508
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.allwinnertech.comwww.qualcomm.com

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
100%
1 SD 630 +
min: 12437     avg: 12963     median: 13014 (11%)     max: 13217 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
100%
A523 +
min: 1517     avg: 1645     median: 1645 (19%)     max: 1773 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
100%
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%
A523 +
min: 853     avg: 865     median: 865 (9%)     max: 877 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
A523 +
min: 2498     avg: 2942     median: 2941.5 (3%)     max: 3385 Points
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
A523 +
827 Points (11%)
832 Points (11%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
A523 +
2451 Points (6%)
4007 Points (10%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
A523 +
3276 Points (5%)
3810 Points (6%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
A523 +
965 Points (14%)
809 Points (12%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
100%
1 SD 630 +
883 Points (7%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
100%
1 SD 630 +
2179 Points (20%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
100%
1 SD 630 +
6766 Points (13%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
100%
1 SD 630 +
3897 Points (8%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
100%
1 SD 630 +
4256 Points (11%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
100%
A523 +
min: 8641.2     avg: 8707     median: 8706.8 (10%)     max: 8772.4 ms
min: 8396     avg: 9702     median: 9797 (11%)     max: 10257 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
100%
A523 +
min: 5911     avg: 6113     median: 6112.5 (5%)     max: 6314 Points
min: 4398     avg: 4963     median: 5011 (5%)     max: 5202 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%
A523 +
41 Points (9%)
min: 35     avg: 37.6     median: 38 (8%)     max: 39 Points
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
100%
1 SD 630 +
min: 44128     avg: 68642     median: 70988 (24%)     max: 73617 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
100%
1 SD 630 +
min: 4871     avg: 5925     median: 5940 (18%)     max: 6574 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 UX
100%
1 SD 630 +
min: 22684     avg: 24023     median: 23814 (29%)     max: 25223 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
100%
1 SD 630 +
min: 19664     avg: 19797     median: 19792 (6%)     max: 19927 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
100%
1 SD 630 +
min: 38598     avg: 39650     median: 39811 (24%)     max: 40000 Points
AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
100%
1 SD 630 +
min: 87300     avg: 89396     median: 89349 (16%)     max: 90674 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
0 min (0%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Computer Vision
100%
1 SD 630 +
min: 2368     avg: 2429     median: 2451 (13%)     max: 2467 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage
100%
1 SD 630 +
min: 3524     avg: 4200     median: 3989 (9%)     max: 5087 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
100%
1 SD 630 +
min: 4636     avg: 4968     median: 4881 (32%)     max: 5987 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
100%
1 SD 630 +
min: 4948     avg: 5632     median: 5712 (29%)     max: 6264 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%)

Average Benchmarks Allwinner A523 → 100% n=11

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 → 107% n=11

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