Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960
The Qualcomm MSM8960 (Snapdragon S4 series) is a ARM based high-end smartphone SoC in 2012. It contains two Krait (ARMv7) CPU cores at 1.5 - 1.7 GHz, a Adreno 225 GPU (400 MHz), a LPDDR2 memory controller (up to 500 MHz) and radio elements including LTE. The chip is produced in 28nm LP (low power process) at TSMC.
The Krait cores offer a slightly better performance as the standard Cortex-A9 cores and are compatible to the NEON SIMD extensions.
Series Qualcomm Snapdragon Codename ARMv7 Series: Snapdragon ARMv7 Clock Rate 1500 - 1700 MHz Level 1 Cache 64 KB Level 2 Cache 1 MB Number of Cores / Threads 2 / 2 Manufacturing Technology 28 nm Features LTE, HSPA+, EDGE, GSM, GPRS, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, FM GPU Qualcomm Adreno 225 (400 MHz)Announcement Date 02/27/2012
Benchmarks 3DMark - Ice Storm Standard Physics 1280x720
4439 Points (3%)
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HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 1%
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3DMark - Ice Storm Extreme Physics 1920x1080
4363 Points (5%)
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HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 23%
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Stream
min: 555 avg: 628.8 median: 639 (5%) max: 681 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Memory
min: 1394 avg: 1626.3 median: 1631 (15%) max: 1849 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Floating Point
min: 1882 avg: 2487.3 median: 2563 (4%) max: 2940 Points
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HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 -5%
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Integer
min: 823 avg: 933 median: 922 (2%) max: 1065 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Total Score
min: 1281 avg: 1585 median: 1626 (4%) max: 1806 Points
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HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 -1%
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Linpack Android / IOS - Multi Thread
242 MFLOPS (8%)
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Linpack Android / IOS - Single Thread
134.8 MFLOPS (13%)
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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Total Score *
45455.8 ms (76%)
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HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 -42%
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Sunspider - 1.0 Total Score *
min: 891 avg: 1327.3 median: 1045 (11%) max: 2038 ms
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Sunspider - 0.9.1 Total Score *
min: 914 avg: 1501.9 median: 1737 (16%) max: 2446 ms
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HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 9%
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unknown 366%
AnTuTu v3 - CPU
3130 points (20%)
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Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8230 -24%
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AndEBench - Java
261 Iter./s (8%)
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AndEBench - Native
5886 Iter./s (19%)
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PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - CPU Tests
5589 Points (1%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8230 -23%
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Reviews for the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 processor
BlackBerry Classic (Qualcomm Adreno 225, 3.5")
» BlackBerry Blackberry Classic - External Review
BlackBerry Leap (Qualcomm Adreno 225, 5")
» BlackBerry Leap - External Review
BlackBerry Q10 (Qualcomm Adreno 225, 3.1")
» Review BlackBerry Q10 Smartphone - Review » BlackBerry Q10 - External Review
BlackBerry Q5 (Qualcomm Adreno 225, 3.1")
» Review BlackBerry Q5 Smartphone - Review » BlackBerry Q5 - External Review
BlackBerry Z10 (Qualcomm Adreno 225, 4.2")
» Review RIM BlackBerry Z10 Smartphone - Review » BlackBerry Z10 - External Review
LG P875 Optimus F5 (Qualcomm Adreno 305, 4.3")
» Review LG P875 Optimus F5 Smartphone - Review
Nokia Lumia 1020 (Qualcomm Adreno 225, 4.5")
» Review Nokia Lumia 1020 Smartphone - Review » Nokia Lumia 1020 - External Review
Nokia Lumia 820 (Qualcomm Adreno 225, 4.3")
» Review Nokia Lumia 820 Smartphone - Review » Nokia Lumia 820 - External Review
Nokia Lumia 920 (Qualcomm Adreno 225, 4.5")
» Review Nokia Lumia 920 Smartphone - Review » Nokia Lumia 920 - External Review
Nokia Lumia 925 (Qualcomm Adreno 225, 4.5")
» Review Nokia Lumia 925 Smartphone - Review » Nokia Lumia 925 - External Review
Nokia Lumia 928 (Qualcomm Adreno 225, 4.5")
» Nokia Lumia 928 - External Review
Samsung ATIV S (Qualcomm Adreno 225, 4.8")
» Review Samsung ATIV S Smartphone - Review » Samsung ATIV S - External Review
Other CPUs of the series Snapdragon » Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 2.42 GHz / 1.8 MB L2 + 7 MB L3
» Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8230 1.2 GHz / 1 MB L2
Surrounding CPUs + Intel Pentium M 738 1.4 GHz / 2048 KB
+ Intel Celeron M 360 1.4 GHz / 1024 KB
+ Intel Celeron M 340 1.5 GHz / 512 KB
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