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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 U8500 « 1 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8420 compare1 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Clock Rate1000 MHz
Number of Cores / Threads2 / 2
Manufacturing Technology45 nm
FeaturesARM Mali 400 (Single Core), LP-DDR2 memory, HSPA
ArchitectureARM
Announcement Date06/01/2011
Product Link (external) NovaThor U8500

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
min: 194     avg: 218.3     median: 200 (2%)     max: 261 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
min: 787     avg: 795     median: 793 (7%)     max: 806 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
min: 1050     avg: 1122     median: 1051 (2%)     max: 1266 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
min: 598     avg: 633     median: 607 (1%)     max: 694 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
min: 754     avg: 795     median: 758 (2%)     max: 873 Points
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Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
min: 53.5     avg: 59.2     median: 58.4 (2%)     max: 65.7 MFLOPS
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Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
min: 33.87     avg: 36.1     median: 34.5 (3%)     max: 39.73 MFLOPS
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Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
min: 1933     avg: 2351     median: 2083 (20%)     max: 3037 ms
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Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
min: 2724     avg: 2859     median: 2858.5 (7%)     max: 2993 points
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AnTuTu v3 - AnTuTu v3 CPU
min: 2382     avg: 2494     median: 2493.5 (16%)     max: 2605 Points
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Klaus Hinum (Update: 2013-01- 2)