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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 U85001 GHz2 / 2 ARMv7
ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8420 compare1 GHz2 / 2 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
0 Points (0%)
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
min: 194     avg: 218     median: 200 (2%)     max: 261 Points
+ 3 benchmarks and specifications   + Show comparison chart
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
min: 787     avg: 795     median: 793 (7%)     max: 806 Points
+ 3 benchmarks and specifications   + Show comparison chart
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
min: 1050     avg: 1122     median: 1051 (2%)     max: 1266 Points
+ 3 benchmarks and specifications   + Show comparison chart
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
+ 3 benchmarks and specifications   + Show comparison chart
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
min: 53.494     avg: 59.2     median: 58.4 (2%)     max: 65.66 MFLOPS
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Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
min: 33.87     avg: 36     median: 34.5 (3%)     max: 39.73 MFLOPS
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Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
min: 1932.9     avg: 2351     median: 2082.8 (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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* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

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Reviews for the NovaThor U8500 processor

Samsung Galaxy beam (ARM Mali-400 MP, 4.00")
» Review Samsung Galaxy Beam (GT-I8530) Smartphone - Review

Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 GT-S7710 (ARM Mali-400 MP, 4.00")
» 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, 4.00")
» Review Samsung S3 Mini GT-I8190 Smartphone - Review
» Samsung S3 Mini GT-I8190 - External Review

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Surrounding CPUs

+ Nvidia Tegra 2 (250)
   2x 1 GHz
+ Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 8210
   2x 1.2 GHz
+ MediaTek MT8317T
   2x 1.2 GHz
+ MediaTek MT6577
   2x 1 GHz
+ Samsung Exynos 9110
   2x 1.15 GHz
» ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500
   2x 1 GHz
- Intel Atom Z510
   1x 1.1 GHz
- Intel Atom Z2000
   1x 1 GHz
- MediaTek MT6575
   1x 1 GHz
- NXP i.MX 6SLL
   1x 1 GHz
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Klaus Hinum (Update: 2013-01- 2)