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ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500

NovaThor U8500

The ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500 is a System on a Chip (SoC) for smartphones and tablets. It features two Cortex-A9 cores with NEON extensions, a ARM Mali-400 MP1 single core graphics card, a media processor and a integrated HSPA+ modem.

The performance is similar to the Nvidia Tegra 2 (Geekbench total score) but in the Stream subtest, where the NovaThor is much faster.

Series
CodenameARMv7
Series: ARMv7
» ST-Ericsson NovaThor U85001000 MHz2 / 2
ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8420 (compare)1000 MHz2 / 2
Clock Rate1000 MHz
Number of Cores / Threads2 / 2
Manufacturing Technology45 nm
FeaturesARM Mali 400 (Single Core), LP-DDR2 memory, HSPA
Announcement Date06/01/2011
Product Link (external) NovaThor U8500

Benchmarks

3DMark - Ice Storm Standard Physics 1280x720
0 Points (0%)
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Stream
min: 194     avg: 218.3     median: 200 (2%)     max: 261 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Memory
min: 787     avg: 795.3     median: 793 (7%)     max: 806 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Floating Point
min: 1050     avg: 1122.3     median: 1051 (3%)     max: 1266 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Integer
min: 598     avg: 633     median: 607 (2%)     max: 694 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Total Score
min: 754     avg: 795     median: 758 (3%)     max: 873 Points
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Linpack Android / IOS - Multi Thread
min: 53     avg: 59.2     median: 58 (2%)     max: 65 MFLOPS
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Linpack Android / IOS - Single Thread
min: 33     avg: 36.1     median: 34 (3%)     max: 39 MFLOPS
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Sunspider - 0.9.1 Total Score *
min: 1932     avg: 2350.9     median: 2082 (20%)     max: 3037 ms
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Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0
min: 2724     avg: 2858.5     median: 2858 (7%)     max: 2993 points
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AnTuTu v3 - CPU
min: 2382     avg: 2493.5     median: 2493 (16%)     max: 2605 points
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* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

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Reviews for the NovaThor U8500 processor

Samsung Galaxy beam (ARM Mali-400 MP, 4")
» Review Samsung Galaxy Beam (GT-I8530) Smartphone - Review

Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 GT-S7710 (ARM Mali-400 MP, 4")
» Review Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 GT-S7710 Smartphone - Review
» Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 GT-S7710 - External Review

Samsung S3 Mini GT-I8190 (ARM Mali-400 MP, 4")
» Review Samsung S3 Mini GT-I8190 Smartphone - Review
» Samsung S3 Mini GT-I8190 - External Review

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Surrounding CPUs

- Apple A5
   1 GHz / 0 MB
- NVIDIA Tegra 2 (250)
   1 GHz / 1 MB
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 8210
   1.2 GHz / 0 MB
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   1.2 GHz / 0 MB
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   1 GHz / 0 MB
» NovaThor U8500
   1 GHz
+ NovaThor U8420
   1 GHz / KB
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   1.1 GHz / 512 KB
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   1 GHz / 512 KB
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   0.6 GHz / 512 KB
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Klaus Hinum (Update: 2013-01- 2)