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Apple A6 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 vs unknown

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 S4 Plus MSM8960

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The Qualcomm MSM8960 (Snapdragon S4 series) is a ARM based high-end smartphone SoC in 2012. It contains two Krait (ARMv7) CPU cores at 1.5 - 1.7 GHz, a Adreno 225 GPU (400 MHz), a LPDDR2 memory controller (up to 500 MHz) and radio elements including LTE. The chip is produced in 28nm LP (low power process) at TSMC.

The Krait cores offer a slightly better performance as the standard Cortex-A9 cores and are compatible to the NEON SIMD extensions.

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ModelApple A6Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960unknown
SeriesApple Qualcomm Snapdragon
Series:
newitem cores
HiSilicon Kirin 9000W1.53 - 2.49 GHz12 / 12 cores
UNISOC Tiger T3101.8 - 2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK32881.8 GHz4 / 4 cores
Apple A6x1.4 GHz2 cores
Apple A6 « 1 GHz2 cores
Apple S52 / 2 cores
HiSilicon k3v2 Hi36201.2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK3066 1.5 GHz1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Amlogic AML8726-MX1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK31681.2 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK2918 1.2 GHz1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
ARM Cortex A8 1.2 GHz1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
Telechips TCC8803 1GHz1 GHz1 / 1 cores
Loongson 2F 900MHz0.9 GHz1 / 1 cores
CSR86700.08 GHz2 cores
ARM Cortex-M4 cores
HiSilicon Hi6262 cores
DK3.5+ST2 cores
unknown cores
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064A1.5 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM89281.6 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 APQ80281.6 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro MSM8960T1.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930AB1.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus APQ8060A1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 « 1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8260A1.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM89261.2 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM82261.2 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 APQ80261.2 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM89301.2 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM82301.2 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM82271 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM86601.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM82601.5 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 QSD82501 GHz1 / 1 cores ARMv7
newitem cores
HiSilicon Kirin 9000W1.53 - 2.49 GHz12 / 12 cores
UNISOC Tiger T3101.8 - 2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK32881.8 GHz4 / 4 cores
Apple A6x1.4 GHz2 cores
Apple A61 GHz2 cores
Apple S52 / 2 cores
HiSilicon k3v2 Hi36201.2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK3066 1.5 GHz1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Amlogic AML8726-MX1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK31681.2 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK2918 1.2 GHz1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
ARM Cortex A8 1.2 GHz1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
Telechips TCC8803 1GHz1 GHz1 / 1 cores
Loongson 2F 900MHz0.9 GHz1 / 1 cores
CSR86700.08 GHz2 cores
ARM Cortex-M4 cores
HiSilicon Hi6262 cores
DK3.5+ST2 cores
unknown «  cores
Clock1000 MHz1500 - 1700 MHz
Cores / Threads22 / 2
Technology32 nm28 nm
ArchitectureARMARMx86
Announced
CodenameARMv7
L1 Cache64 KB
L2 Cache1 MB
FeaturesLTE, HSPA+, EDGE, GSM, GPRS, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, FM
iGPUQualcomm Adreno 225 (400 MHz)

Benchmarks

Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64 Bit
100%
1 unknown +
min: 1029     avg: 1038     median: 1038 (7%)     max: 1047 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
100%
1 A6 +
7961 Points (6%)
4439 Points (4%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
100%
1 A6 +
7816 Points (6%)
4363 Points (4%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
100%
1 unknown +
37732 Points (32%)
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Physics
100%
1 unknown +
8923 Points (23%)
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy CPU
100%
1 unknown +
5039 Points (21%)
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
100%
1 unknown +
min: 3612     avg: 4808     median: 4807.5 (57%)     max: 6003 Points
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 Single-Core
100%
1 unknown +
min: 920     avg: 1183     median: 1183 (32%)     max: 1446 Points
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 Multi-Core
100%
1 unknown +
min: 2252     avg: 3368     median: 3368 (13%)     max: 4484 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 unknown +
min: 687     avg: 887     median: 887 (37%)     max: 1087 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 unknown +
min: 2071     avg: 3146     median: 3146 (6%)     max: 4221 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 unknown +
min: 3175     avg: 4274     median: 4788 (48%)     max: 4860 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 unknown +
min: 8143     avg: 12683     median: 14710 (16%)     max: 15196 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%
1 A6 +
940 Points (8%)
min: 555     avg: 629     median: 639.5 (5%)     max: 681 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
100%
1 A6 +
1867 Points (17%)
min: 1394     avg: 1626     median: 1631 (15%)     max: 1849 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
100%
1 A6 +
2114 Points (4%)
min: 1882     avg: 2487     median: 2563.5 (5%)     max: 2940 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
100%
1 A6 +
1261 Points (3%)
min: 823     avg: 933     median: 922 (2%)     max: 1065 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
100%
1 A6 +
1648 Points (4%)
min: 1281     avg: 1585     median: 1626.5 (4%)     max: 1806 Points
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
100%
A6 +
min: 484     avg: 530     median: 529.5 (18%)     max: 575 MFLOPS
242 MFLOPS (8%)
13 MFLOPS (0%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
100%
A6 +
min: 309.4     avg: 337.3     median: 337.3 (33%)     max: 365.2 MFLOPS
134.8 MFLOPS (13%)
12.8 MFLOPS (1%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
100%
A6 +
14535 ms (17%)
45456 ms (53%)
min: 779.1     avg: 5662     median: 1253.9 (1%)     max: 14953 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
100%
1 A6 +
min: 714     avg: 722     median: 722 (8%)     max: 730 ms
min: 891     avg: 1327     median: 1045.5 (11%)     max: 2038 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
100%
A6 +
935 ms (9%)
min: 915     avg: 1502     median: 1737 (16%)     max: 2447 ms
7004 ms (66%)
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
100%
1 unknown +
min: 2672     avg: 21642     median: 17303 (16%)     max: 49290 Points
WebXPRT 4 - WebXPRT 4 Score
0 Points (0%)
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
0 Points (0%)
AnTuTu v3 - AnTuTu v3 CPU
3130 Points (20%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
261 Iter./s (8%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
5886 Iter./s (19%)
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
100%
1 A6 +
24996 Points (3%)
5589 Points (1%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 random write internal
100%
1 unknown +
37 MB/s (27%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 seq write internal
100%
1 unknown +
587 MB/s (18%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 random read internal
100%
1 unknown +
18.7 MB/s (23%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 seq read internal
100%
1 unknown +
712 MB/s (20%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 score
100%
1 unknown +
21410 Points (34%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 3.0
100%
1 unknown +
13575 Points (63%)
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
100%
1 unknown +
min: 598     avg: 815     median: 814.5 (31%)     max: 1031 Points

Average Benchmarks Apple A6 → 100% n=4

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 → 58% n=4

Average Benchmarks unknown → 40% n=4

- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation

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