Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8260

The Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8260 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 1.5 GHz, a Adreno 220 graphics card and radio elements. Compared to the similar MSM8660, the 8260 does not include support for CDMA2000.

The similar named MSM8260A already contains the faster Krait cores and the slightly faster Adreno 225 graphics card.

Codename

ARMv7

Series

Qualcomm Snapdragon

Series: Snapdragon ARMv7

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 APQ8028	1.6 GHz	4 / 4	ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064A	1.5 GHz	4 / 4	ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8928	1.6 GHz	4 / 4	ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8226	1.2 GHz	4 / 4	ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8926	1.2 GHz	4 / 4	ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro MSM8960T	1.7 GHz	2 / 2	ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 APQ8026	1.2 GHz	4 / 4	ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8930	1.2 GHz	2 / 2	ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8227	1 GHz	2 / 2	ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8230	1.2 GHz	2 / 2	ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8260A	1.7 GHz	2 / 2	ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930AB	1.7 GHz	2 / 2	ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus APQ8060A	1.5 GHz	2 / 2	ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960	1.5 GHz	2 / 2	ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 QSD8250	1 GHz	1 / 1	ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8660	1.7 GHz	2 / 2	ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8260 «	1.5 GHz	2 / 2	ARMv7

Clock Rate

1500 MHz

Level 1 Cache

64 KB

Level 2 Cache

1 MB

Number of Cores / Threads

2 / 2

Manufacturing Technology

45 nm

Features

HSPA+, EDGE, GSM, GPRS, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, FM

GPU

Qualcomm Adreno 220

Architecture

ARM

Announcement Date

02/27/2012

Benchmarks

Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream

385 Points (2%)

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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory

1034 Points (7%)

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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point

1230 Points (2%)

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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer

912 Points (2%)

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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score

994 Points (3%)

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Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread

76.5 MFLOPS (3%)

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Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread

43.2 MFLOPS (4%)

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Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *

1888 ms (18%)

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AnTuTu v3 - AnTuTu v3 CPU

3197 Points (21%)

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- Average benchmark values
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

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