Marvell PXA986 vs HiSilicon Kirin 910T vs Rockchip RK3188
Marvell PXA986
► remove from comparisonThe Marvell PXA986 is an ARM based dual-core SoC for smartphones and tablets (mostly Android based). It contains two Cortex-A9 CPU cores usually clocked around 1.2 GHz and a Vivante GC1000 graphics card. The integrated video processor is able to handle 720p30 content in H.263, H.264 BP and MPEG4 SP encoding. Furthermore, a GSM/EDGE/WCDMA/HSDPA radio is included in the chip.
HiSilicon Kirin 910T
► remove from comparisonThe HiSilicon Kirin 910T is an ARM based quad core SoC for Android smartphones and tablets. As HiSilicon is fully owned by Huawei, the chip is mostly used in Huawei models like the MediaPad X1, P6 S, MediaPad M1 and Honor 3C 4G). The SoC integrates four Cortex-A9 cores (at 1.8 GHz max.), a ARM Mali-450 MP4 GPU (at 533 MHz), a 32-bit single-channel LPDDR3-1600 memory controller (533 MHz) and a LTE Cat. 4 radio. The similar named HiSilicon Kirin 910 is a 200 MHz slower clocked (CPU) version.
At the time of announcement in mid 2014, the CPU performance of the Kirin910T is in the mid-range of smartphone and tablet SoCs. The power consumption is a bit higher than usual, as the CPU cores are rather high clocked.
Rockchip RK3188
► remove from comparisonThe Rockchip RK3188 is a fast ARM SoC primarily designed for tablets. It integrates four ARM Cortex A9 cores with NEON extension and a clock speed of up to 1.8 GHz, a Mali-400 MP4 graphics card (up to 600 MHz, 24 GFLOPS) and a low-power (LP-)DDR2/DDR3 memory controller. Due to the high clock rates, the performance of the CPU and GPU is superior to other Cortex-A9 quad-cores such as the Nvidia Tegra 3 and Samsung Exynos 4412. These high frequencies are possible due to the 28nm process (TSMC). However, this results in high power consumption and is thus not suited for compact smartphones.
Model | Marvell PXA986 | HiSilicon Kirin 910T | Rockchip RK3188 |
Codename | Cortex-A9 | Cortex-A9 | Cortex-A9 |
Clock | 1200 MHz | 1800 MHz | 1800 MHz |
Cores / Threads | 2 / 2 | 4 / 4 | 4 / 4 |
Technology | 45 nm | 28 nm | 28 nm |
Architecture | ARM | ARM | ARM |
Announced | |||
Manufacturer | www.marvell.com | www.rock-chips.com | |
Features | ARMv7, Mali-450 MP4 (533 MHz), LTE (Cat. 4), Single-Channel LPDDR3-1600 (6.4 GB/s) | Mali-400 MP4 (600 MHz), DDR2/DDR3 Memory Controller (max. 2 GByte) | |
iGPU | ARM Mali-400 MP4 (600 MHz) |
Benchmarks
Average Benchmarks Marvell PXA986 → 100% n=15
Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 910T → 270% n=15
Average Benchmarks Rockchip RK3188 → 209% n=15
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation