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Apple A6 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930AB

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.

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.

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ModelApple A6Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930AB
SeriesApple Qualcomm Snapdragon
Series: Snapdragon ARMv7
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8926 compare1.2 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
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Clock1000 MHz1700 MHz
Cores / Threads22 / 2
Technology32 nm28 nm
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced
CodenameARMv7
L1 Cache64 KB
L2 Cache1 MB
FeaturesHSPA+, EDGE, GSM, GPRS, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, FM
iGPUQualcomm Adreno 305

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
100%
A6 +
7961 Points (6%)
min: 5181     avg: 6302     median: 6860 (6%)     max: 6864 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
100%
A6 +
7816 Points (6%)
min: 5397     avg: 6193     median: 6192.5 (5%)     max: 6988 Points
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
100%
A6 +
940 Points (8%)
min: 593     avg: 680     median: 716 (6%)     max: 731 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
100%
A6 +
1867 Points (17%)
min: 1527     avg: 1894     median: 2034 (18%)     max: 2121 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
100%
A6 +
2114 Points (4%)
min: 244     avg: 1983     median: 2853 (6%)     max: 2853 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
100%
A6 +
1261 Points (3%)
min: 898     avg: 1113     median: 1211 (2%)     max: 1229 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
100%
A6 +
1648 Points (4%)
min: 1394     avg: 1740     median: 1907 (5%)     max: 1919 Points
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
100%
A6 +
min: 484     avg: 530     median: 529.5 (18%)     max: 575 MFLOPS
min: 241.6     avg: 296     median: 298.5 (10%)     max: 347.8 MFLOPS
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
100%
A6 +
min: 309.4     avg: 337.3     median: 337.3 (33%)     max: 365.2 MFLOPS
min: 153.8     avg: 172.7     median: 171.1 (17%)     max: 193.2 MFLOPS
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
100%
A6 +
14535 ms (17%)
34416 ms (40%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
100%
A6 +
min: 714     avg: 722     median: 722 (8%)     max: 730 ms
min: 701     avg: 1047     median: 1117.5 (12%)     max: 1252 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
100%
A6 +
935 ms (9%)
min: 723     avg: 955     median: 954.5 (9%)     max: 1186 ms
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
100%
A6 +
24996 Points (3%)
min: 4329     avg: 6192     median: 7051 (1%)     max: 7195 Points

Average Benchmarks Apple A6 → 100% n=13

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930AB → 85% n=13

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