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ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8660

ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500

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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.

Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8660

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8660 is an entry level SoC for smartphones and tablets (mostly Android based). It contains two Scorpion cores (enhanced ARM Cortex-A8) clocked at up to 1.7 GHz, a Adreno 220 graphics card and radio elements (including CDMA2000, which is the difference to the MSM8260).

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ModelST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8660
CodenameARMv7ARMv7
Clock1000 MHz1700 MHz
Cores / Threads2 / 22 / 2
Technology45 nm45 nm
FeaturesARM Mali 400 (Single Core), LP-DDR2 memory, HSPAHSPA+, EDGE, GSM, GPRS, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, FM
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.stericsson.com
SeriesQualcomm Snapdragon
Series: Snapdragon ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064A compare1.5 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8928 compare1.6 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 APQ8028 compare1.6 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro MSM8960T compare1.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930AB compare1.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus APQ8060A compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8260A compare1.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8926 compare1.2 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8226 compare1.2 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 APQ8026 compare1.2 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8930 compare1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8230 compare1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8227 compare1 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8660 « 1.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8260 compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 QSD8250 compare1 GHz1 / 1 cores ARMv7
L1 Cache64 KB
L2 Cache1 MB
iGPUQualcomm Adreno 220

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

Average Benchmarks ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500 → 0% n=0

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Redaktion, 2017-09- 8 (Update: 2023-07- 1)