Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM8939

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM8939 is a mid-range ARMv8-based SoC largely for Android tablets and smartphones. Announced in February 2014, the S615 is one of the first 64-bit capable SoCs from Qualcomm. In addition to 8 Cortex-A53 CPU cores at up to 1.7 GHz, the SoC integrates an Adreno 405 GPU with a 2x 32-bit memory controller (LPDDR3-1600, 12.8 GB/s) and supports Wi-Fi (802.11ac), Bluetooth 4.0, UMTS, and LTE.
CPU
The Cortex-A53 is the successor to the very popular Cortex-A7 design. In addition to the new 64-bit capable ARMv8 ISA, the cores offer a variety of other improvements such as better branch prediction. This leads to a significantly higher performance per clock, which is even above the older Cortex-A9.
The eight cores of the Snapdragon 615 are divided into two quad-core clusters, each optimized for a different operating point. While one cluster can clock up to 1.7 GHz to handle more demanding applications, the other cluster is limited to a maximum of 1.0 GHz for energy-saving purposes. All eight cores can be active at the same time, although most applications aren't parallelized to support 8 cores efficiently.
Overall, the Snapdragon 615 offers a performance similar to that of the older Snapdragon 600 (Krait architecture).
GPU
Another new feature is the integrated graphics unit named Adreno 405 (550 MHz). The Adreno 400 series has been substantially redesigned and supports DirectX 11.2 (FL 11_1) including hardware tessellation, OpenGL ES 3.1, and OpenCL 1.2. Furthermore, the performance has been significantly improved, which is now similar to the Adreno 320 and PowerVR G6200.
Features
The Snapdragon 615 offers numerous wireless technologies such as Bluetooth 4.0 and WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n/ac as well as a Multi-SIM cellular modem supporting LTE cat. 4 (up to 150 Mbps), WCDMA, CDMA, EV-DO, TD-SCDMA and GSM/EDGE.
The SoC can encode and decode 1080p videos using dedicated hardware and stream content to displays with up to 2560 x 2048 pixels. A large number of video codecs including H.265 (playback only) will be supported. The camera ISP can handle sensors with up to 21 MP.
Power Consumption
The Snapdragon 615 is manufactured by TSMC in a 28 nm LP process. According to the specifications, we expect a medium or medium-high power consumption for use in medium-sized or larger smartphones and tablets.
Series | Qualcomm Snapdragon |
Codename | Cortex-A53 |
Series: Snapdragon Cortex-A53 | |
Clock Rate | 1700 MHz |
Number of Cores / Threads | 8 / 8 |
Manufacturing Technology | 28 nm |
Features | Adreno 405 GPU, 802.11ac WLAN, Bluetooth, LTE, NFC, GPS/GLOSNASS/BeiDou, 32/64 Bit LPDDR3 Memory Controller |
GPU | Qualcomm Adreno 405 ( - 550 MHz) |
64 Bit | 64 Bit support |
Architecture | ARM |
Announcement Date | 02/24/2014 |
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Product Link (external) | Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 MSM8939 |
Benchmarks
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
min: 5569 avg: 7208 median: 7132.5 (5%) max: 8902 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
min: 5564 avg: 6969 median: 7003 (7%) max: 9155 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 5758 avg: 8220 median: 7460.5 (8%) max: 15857 Points
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
991 Points (17%)
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
523 Points (4%)
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HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 -6%
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
1615 Points (15%)
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
4043 Points (8%)
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
2255 Points (5%)
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
2579 Points (7%)
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Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
min: 2103 avg: 2483 median: 2370 (4%) max: 3202 points
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Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
min: 539 avg: 674 median: 638 (13%) max: 940 points
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Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 2291 avg: 2667 median: 2720 (4%) max: 3046 points
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Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 676 avg: 689 median: 681 (14%) max: 717 points
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Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
626 points (10%)
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Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
1561 points (4%)
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Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
min: 257.9 avg: 318 median: 280.6 (9%) max: 490 MFLOPS
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Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
min: 116.597 avg: 213 median: 218.3 (21%) max: 420 MFLOPS
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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 5061 avg: 13398 median: 13126 (22%) max: 20190.1 ms
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Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
min: 793 avg: 1235 median: 1213 (13%) max: 1688.1 ms
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Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
1178 ms (11%)
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Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8230 7%
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Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 2672 avg: 3696 median: 3411 (5%) max: 6999 Points
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Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Metal
min: 924 avg: 1197 median: 1184.5 (32%) max: 1493 Points
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Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Multicore Beta
min: 817 avg: 1275 median: 1238.5 (28%) max: 1805 Points
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Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Browser
min: 1849 avg: 2628 median: 2521.5 (33%) max: 3619 Points
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Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
min: 17712 avg: 20407 median: 19790 (46%) max: 23719 points
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AnTuTu v5 - AnTuTu v5 Total Score
min: 27825 avg: 33966 median: 32024 (32%) max: 49293 Points
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AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
min: 29823 avg: 33247 median: 33119 (11%) max: 36800 Points
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 MEM
4376 Points (13%)
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14864 Points (18%)
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 GPU
8960 Points (3%)
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 CPU
26765 Points (16%)
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AnTuTu v7 - AnTuTu v7 Total Score
54965 Points (10%)
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AndEBench - AndEBench Java
min: 260 avg: 453 median: 417 (13%) max: 683 Iter./s
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AndEBench - AndEBench Native
min: 6830 avg: 12463 median: 12017 (39%) max: 18542 Iter./s
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PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile CPU Tests
min: 10592 avg: 12997 median: 12996.5 (2%) max: 15401 Points
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PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Computer Vision
1756 Points (9%)
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PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage
3900 Points (13%)
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PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 2.0
3293 Points (22%)
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PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
min: 3045 avg: 3504 median: 3536 (18%) max: 3959 Points
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