Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225Q

The Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225Q is an entry level SoC for Android based tablets and smartphones. It contains four ARM Cortex-A5 CPU cores with a clock rate of up to 1.2 GHz, an Adreno 203 graphics card, an LPDDR2 memory controller, and a UMTS radio module.

The performance of the Cortex-A5 cores is rather low (per clock) and therefore the quad-core is only on par with dual-core Cortex-A9 SoCs. The single threaded performance is however much lower.

The integrated video engine allows the encoding and decoding of 720p videos.

Series	Qualcomm Snapdragon
Codename	Cortex-A5
Series: Snapdragon Cortex-A5	Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8625Q 1.2 GHz 4 / 4 Cortex-A5 » Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225Q 1.2 GHz 4 / 4 Cortex-A5 Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225 1.5 GHz 2 / 2 Cortex-A5
Clock Rate	1200 MHz
Number of Cores / Threads	4 / 4
Manufacturing Technology	45 nm
Features	GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSPA
GPU	Qualcomm Adreno 203
Architecture	ARM
Announcement Date	09/26/2012
Product Link (external)	Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225Q

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics

3418 Points (2%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
Huawei Ascend G525	S4 Play MSM8225Q	Adreno 203	1 GB	3418

Samsung Hummingbird S5PC110 / Exynos 3110 -85%

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Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227A -54%

MediaTek MT6575 -48%

Actions ACT-ATM7029 -41%

Intel Atom x7-Z8700 -25%

Apple A5x -16%

Marvell PXA986 -16%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8625Q -15%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225 -11%

Intel Atom Z2420 -2%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225Q

MediaTek MT8317T 4%

MediaTek MT6572 7%

MediaTek MT6577 7%

Broadcom BCM21664T 11%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8227 12%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 8210 18%

Renesas MP5232 22%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AA 25%

MediaTek MT8312 29%

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Intel Core i5-4300Y 4450%

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3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics

5648 Points (6%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
Huawei Ascend G525	S4 Play MSM8225Q	Adreno 203	1 GB	5648

Intel Atom Z2760 -72%

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Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 -23%

AMD A6-9220e -22%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AA -22%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8930 -17%

Rockchip RK3066 1.5 GHz -13%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 8225Q -12%

Samsung Exynos 4212 1.5 GHz -7%

HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 -5%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus APQ8060A -4%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225Q

Marvell PXA1088 7%

AMD E1-2100 7%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 MSM8909 7%

Intel Atom Z3460 7%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930AB 10%

NVIDIA Tegra 3 13%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 (8998) 14%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 212 APQ8009 15%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 APQ8026 18%

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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 1567%

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Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread

91.8 MFLOPS (3%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
Huawei Ascend G525	S4 Play MSM8225Q	Adreno 203	1 GB	91.816

Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227 -93%

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Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225 -18%

Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 -18%

Broadcom BCM21664T -18%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8625Q -17%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8260 -17%

Rockchip RK3066 1.5 GHz -13%

Amlogic AML8726-MX -6%

Texas Instruments OMAP 4470 -5%

Mediatek MT8389 -4%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225Q

Samsung Exynos 4212 1.5 GHz 2%

Intel Atom Z2480 11%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 8225Q 12%

Mediatek MT8125 12%

MediaTek MT6572 13%

Mediatek MT6589 23%

NVIDIA Tegra 3 24%

MediaTek MT8312 32%

Apple A5 38%

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Apple A8X 2546%

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Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread

40.7 MFLOPS (4%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
Huawei Ascend G525	S4 Play MSM8225Q	Adreno 203	1 GB	40.696

Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227 -82%

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MediaTek MT6575 -22%

Nvidia Tegra 2 (250) -20%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227A -16%

ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500 -12%

Broadcom BCM28155 -11%

Mediatek MT8125 -11%

WonderMedia PRIZM WM8950 -8%

MediaTek MT6577 -5%

MediaTek MT8317T -5%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225Q

Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 0%

Marvell PXA986 2%

MediaTek MT8377 5%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8260 6%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8625Q 8%

HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 9%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225 11%

Samsung Exynos 4210 1.2 GHz 13%

Mediatek MT6589 15%

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Apple A8X 2409%

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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *

36221 ms (42%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
Huawei Ascend G525	S4 Play MSM8225Q	Adreno 203	1 GB	36220.6

Apple M1 Max -99%

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MediaTek MT8161 -32%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 MSM8212 -31%

Marvell PXA1088 -30%

Marvell PXA986 -30%

HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 -27%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 215 -18%

AMD A4-1250 -16%

Apple A5x -14%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930AB -5%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225Q

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus APQ8060A 19%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 25%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227A 64%

Apple S7 136%

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Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *

2379 ms (26%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
Huawei Ascend G525	S4 Play MSM8225Q	Adreno 203	1 GB	2379.4

Intel Core i7-7740X -98%

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Mediatek MT6735 -21%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 8225Q -21%

Rockchip RK3066 1.5 GHz -18%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 -17%

Apple S5 -15%

Mediatek MT6750 -14%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225 -8%

HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 -8%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 MSM8909 -5%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225Q

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8625Q 2%

Samsung Exynos 9110 12%

Samsung Exynos W920 18%

Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 32%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227A 45%

Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 57%

NXP i.MX 6SLL 185%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 283%

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Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *

2262 ms (21%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
Huawei Ascend G525	S4 Play MSM8225Q	Adreno 203	1 GB	2262.4

AMD Ryzen 5 4500U -96%

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Mediatek MT6582M -24%

MediaTek MT6572 -22%

Mediatek MT6735 -20%

Apple A5 -18%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8260 -17%

MediaTek MT8377 -16%

Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 -14%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225 -5%

Samsung Exynos 4210 1.2 GHz -4%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225Q

ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500 4%

WonderMedia PRIZM WM8950 7%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8625Q 8%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S2 MSM8255 16%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7225A 20%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227A 24%

Nvidia Tegra 2 (250) 26%

AllWinner A10 57%

AllWinner A13 78%

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Rockchip RK2918 210%

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Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score

4508 points (10%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
Huawei Ascend G525	S4 Play MSM8225Q	Adreno 203 2.1.1	1 GB	4508

Samsung Hummingbird S5PC110 / Exynos 3110 -72%

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MediaTek MT8312 -13%

Broadcom BCM28155 -13%

Renesas MP5232 -12%

Amlogic AML8726-MX -10%

Intel Atom Z2480 -10%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8227 -8%

NVIDIA Tegra 3 -5%

Samsung Exynos 5250 Dual -3%

Mediatek MT8125 -3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225Q

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8260A 0%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8930 2%

Mediatek MT6589 3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8230 3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8230 3%

Mediatek MT8389 4%

HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 5%

Samsung Exynos 4212 1.5 GHz 7%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus APQ8060A 11%

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Samsung Exynos 8895 Octa 858%

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AnTuTu v4 - AnTuTu v4 Total Score

11419 Points (27%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
Huawei Ascend G525	S4 Play MSM8225Q	Adreno 203 4.0.1	1 GB	11419

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8625Q -33%

MediaTek MT6577 -25%

MediaTek MT6572 -7%

Samsung Exynos 4210 1.2 GHz -3%

Marvell PXA986 0%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225Q

Marvell PXA1088 2%

Broadcom BCM21664T 6%

Renesas MP5232 7%

Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 8%

MediaTek MT8312 11%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 8210 12%

Mediatek MT8125 16%

Mediatek MT8389 18%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8930 20%

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 APQ8084 243%

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AndEBench - AndEBench Java

229 Iter./s (7%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
Huawei Ascend G525	S4 Play MSM8225Q	Adreno 203	1 GB	229

Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227A -72%

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Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8227 -23%

Broadcom BCM21664T -21%

HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 -17%

MediaTek MT8312 -14%

MediaTek MT8317T -13%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8930 -13%

Renesas MP5232 -9%

Intel Atom Z2560 -6%

Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 -2%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225Q

Mediatek MT8135 3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8230 3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8230 3%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 8225Q 5%

Samsung Exynos 4212 1.5 GHz 8%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 14%

Intel Atom Z2580 16%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930AB 16%

NVIDIA Tegra 3 21%

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HiSilicon Kirin 950 1321%

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AndEBench - AndEBench Native

5544 Iter./s (18%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
Huawei Ascend G525	S4 Play MSM8225Q	Adreno 203	1 GB	5544

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8227 -83%

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Samsung Exynos 4210 1.2 GHz -22%

MediaTek MT8317T -21%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8930 -18%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930AB -13%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8230 -8%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8230 -8%

Samsung Exynos 4212 1.5 GHz -6%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 8225Q -5%

Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 -1%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225Q

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 6%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 APQ8026 10%

Mediatek MT8135 13%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8926 15%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8226 15%

Mediatek MT8389 16%

Mediatek MT8125 17%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8928 19%

Mediatek MT6582M 20%

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HiSilicon Kirin 950 450%

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PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile CPU Tests

6341 Points (1%)

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Model	CPU	GPU	RAM	Value
Huawei Ascend G525	S4 Play MSM8225Q	Adreno 203	1 GB	6341

Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227 -93%

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Mediatek Helio P22T MT8768T -19%

MediaTek Dimensity 1200 -19%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 5G -18%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 -12%

Marvell PXA1088 -9%

Texas Instruments OMAP 4460 -9%

Rockchip RK3066 1.5 GHz -8%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 8225Q -4%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930AB -2%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225Q

Mediatek Helio P65 1%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 APQ8026 6%

Mediatek Helio P60T 7%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro MSM8960DT 10%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro MSM8960T 11%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8226 14%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8926 18%

Mediatek Helio G80 23%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8928 25%

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Apple A12X Bionic 11861%

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