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Rockchip RK3188 vs Marvell Armada PXA1908 vs Marvell PXA986

Rockchip RK3188

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The 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.

Marvell Armada PXA1908

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The Marvell Armada PXA1908 is an ARM based low end SoC for smartphones and tablets. The chip was announced in late 2014 and integrates four 64-Bit Cortex-A53 processor cores with up to 1.2 GHz. As a graphics card, the SoC integrates a Vivante GC7000UL. Furthermore, a LPDDR2/3 memory controller and a HSPA+/WCDMA/LTE Cat. 4 (max. 150 Mbit/s) radio is integrated. The SoC is manufactured in 28nm and also suited for small smartphones. 

Marvell PXA986

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The 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.

ModelRockchip RK3188Marvell Armada PXA1908Marvell PXA986
Series Marvell Technology Group Marvell Technology Group
CodenameCortex-A9Cortex-A53Cortex-A9
Series: Cortex-A9
HiSilicon Kirin 910T1.8 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A9
Rockchip RK3188 « 1.8 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A9
HiSilicon Kirin 9101.6 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A9
Renesas MP52321.5 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex-A9
Broadcom BCM21664T1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex-A9
Marvell PXA9861.2 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex-A9
NXP i.MX 6SLL1 GHz1 / 1 cores Cortex-A9
WonderMedia PRIZM WM89501 GHz1 / 1 cores Cortex-A9
JLQ JR5101.5 - 2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 9352.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6592.36 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6582.35 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6552.1 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6502 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 9302 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 6201.2 GHz8 / 8 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT8163 V/A 1.5 GHz1.5 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT8163 V/B 1.3 GHz1.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
MediaTek MT81611.3 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
Marvell Armada PXA1908 « 1.2 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A53
HiSilicon Kirin 910T1.8 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A9
Rockchip RK31881.8 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A9
HiSilicon Kirin 9101.6 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex-A9
Renesas MP52321.5 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex-A9
Broadcom BCM21664T1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex-A9
Marvell PXA986 « 1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex-A9
NXP i.MX 6SLL1 GHz1 / 1 cores Cortex-A9
WonderMedia PRIZM WM89501 GHz1 / 1 cores Cortex-A9
Clock1800 MHz1200 MHz1200 MHz
Cores / Threads4 / 44 / 42 / 2
Technology28 nm28 nm45 nm
FeaturesMali-400 MP4 (600 MHz), DDR2/DDR3 Memory Controller (max. 2 GByte)Vivante GC7000UL GPU, HSPA+/WCDMA/LTE Cat. 4, LPDDR2/3 Memory Controller
iGPUARM Mali-400 MP4 (600 MHz)Vivante GC7000UL
ArchitectureARMARMARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.rock-chips.comwww.marvell.comwww.marvell.com

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
min: 5828     avg: 7773     median: 7936 (6%)     max: 8887 Points
8944 Points (7%)
min: 2623     avg: 2874     median: 2740 (2%)     max: 3258 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
min: 5434     avg: 7724     median: 8025.5 (7%)     max: 8812 Points
8885 Points (7%)
min: 2709     avg: 2985     median: 2985 (2%)     max: 3261 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 9142     avg: 9821     median: 9821 (8%)     max: 10500 Points
9613 Points (8%)
3675 Points (3%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
min: 1316     avg: 1410     median: 1421 (3%)     max: 1493 Points
1717 Points (3%)
min: 631     avg: 647     median: 646.5 (1%)     max: 662 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
min: 476     avg: 498.7     median: 504 (10%)     max: 516 Points
575 Points (11%)
min: 376     avg: 379.5     median: 379.5 (7%)     max: 383 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 182     avg: 320     median: 272 (2%)     max: 506 Points
162%
1 PXA986 +
min: 437     avg: 439.5     median: 439.5 (4%)     max: 442 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 326     avg: 687     median: 803 (7%)     max: 933 Points
180%
1 PXA986 +
min: 1337     avg: 1448     median: 1448 (13%)     max: 1559 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 1769     avg: 2044     median: 2035 (4%)     max: 2328 Points
63%
1 PXA986 +
min: 1275     avg: 1284     median: 1284 (3%)     max: 1293 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 924     avg: 1123     median: 1104 (2%)     max: 1341 Points
65%
1 PXA986 +
min: 709     avg: 720     median: 720 (1%)     max: 731 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 1130     avg: 1275     median: 1182 (3%)     max: 1512 Points
88%
1 PXA986 +
min: 1005     avg: 1035     median: 1034.5 (3%)     max: 1064 Points
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
min: 130     avg: 131.1     median: 131.1 (4%)     max: 132.1 MFLOPS
226 MFLOPS (8%)
min: 73.7     avg: 74.3     median: 74 (3%)     max: 75.3 MFLOPS
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
min: 54.9     avg: 57.2     median: 57.2 (6%)     max: 59.4 MFLOPS
122 MFLOPS (12%)
min: 39.83     avg: 41.6     median: 41.4 (4%)     max: 43.69 MFLOPS
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
100%
1 RK3188 +
13698 ms (16%)
84%
1 PXA986 +
min: 23941     avg: 25315     median: 25315 (30%)     max: 26689 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 849     avg: 1179     median: 1240 (14%)     max: 1388 ms
95%
1 PXA986 +
min: 1428     avg: 1608     median: 1624 (18%)     max: 1771 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 702     avg: 986     median: 1086 (10%)     max: 1170 ms
95%
1 PXA986 +
min: 1453     avg: 1531     median: 1530.5 (15%)     max: 1608 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 3092     avg: 3094     median: 3093.5 (3%)     max: 3095 Points
2059 Points (2%)
1448 Points (1%)
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Metal
932 Points (25%)
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Multicore Beta
1231 Points (27%)
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Browser
1871 Points (25%)
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
5287 points (12%)
8542 points (20%)
min: 3257     avg: 3515     median: 3514.5 (8%)     max: 3772 points
AnTuTu v3 - AnTuTu v3 CPU
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 7505     avg: 7723     median: 7807 (51%)     max: 7856 Points
38%
1 PXA986 +
2945 Points (19%)
AnTuTu v4 - AnTuTu v4 Total Score
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 2139     avg: 14154     median: 19571 (46%)     max: 20752 Points
58%
1 PXA986 +
min: 11051     avg: 11392     median: 11392 (26%)     max: 11733 Points
AnTuTu v5 - AnTuTu v5 Total Score
22432 Points (23%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
min: 179     avg: 329     median: 374 (11%)     max: 434 Iter./s
354 Iter./s (11%)
min: 137     avg: 160     median: 159 (5%)     max: 184 Iter./s
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
min: 10329     avg: 11213     median: 11588 (38%)     max: 11722 Iter./s
7829 Iter./s (26%)
min: 4077     avg: 4208     median: 4266 (14%)     max: 4281 Iter./s
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
min: 9258     avg: 10743     median: 10965 (1%)     max: 11782 Points
10868 Points (1%)
min: 3273     avg: 3820     median: 3976 (1%)     max: 4210 Points

Average Benchmarks Rockchip RK3188 → 100% n=12

Average Benchmarks Marvell Armada PXA1908 → 119% n=12

Average Benchmarks Marvell PXA986 → 49% n=12

- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation

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