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Rockchip RK3288 vs Apple A6x vs Rockchip RK3188

Rockchip RK3288

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The Rockchip RK3288 is a mid-range ARM SoC for Android and Chrome OS mobile systems. It integrates four Cortex-A12 cores clocked at up to 1.8 GHz. ARM calls these cores Cortex-A17 due to them having very similar performance levels. The SoC includes an ARM Mali-T760 MP4 (also called Mali-T764) GPU clocked at 600 MHz and a dual-channel DDR3, DDR3L, LPDDR2, LPDDR3 memory controller.

The ARM Cortex-A12 is the successor to the Cortex-A9 and is based on a 32 Bit ARMv7-A microarchitecture. A single A12 core should be roughly 40 % more powerful than an A9 core according to ARM.

The integrated video engine supports encoding of H.264, VP8, and MVC videos up to 1080p. Decoding is supported for videos up to 4K H.264 and 10 Bit H.265.

The chip is manufactured under a 28 nm HKMG process.

Apple A6x

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The Apple A6x is a dual-core-SoC (System on a Chip) with ARM compatible CPU cores (ARMv7s instruction set). Both can be clocked at up to 1400 MHz depending on the load. It is used in the iPad 4 and compared to the A6 in the iPhone 5, the A6x offers a faster GPU (PowerVR SGX544MP4).

The CPU-Performance of the A6x is similar to the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro MSM8960T, while the GPU is about as fast as the Adreno 320.

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.

ModelRockchip RK3288Apple A6xRockchip RK3188
Series Apple
Series: Cortex-A9
HiSilicon Kirin 9000W1.53 - 2.49 GHz12 / 12 cores
UNISOC Tiger T3101.8 - 2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK3288 « 1.8 GHz4 / 4 cores
Apple A6x1.4 GHzcores
Apple A61 GHzcores
Apple S52 / 2 cores
HiSilicon k3v2 Hi36201.2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK3066 1.5 GHz1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Amlogic AML8726-MX1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK31681.2 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK2918 1.2 GHz1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
ARM Cortex A8 1.2 GHz1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
Telechips TCC8803 1GHz1 GHz1 / 1 cores
Loongson 2F 900MHz0.9 GHz1 / 1 cores
CSR86700.08 GHzcores
ARM Cortex-M4 cores
HiSilicon Hi6262 cores
DK3.5+STcores
unknown cores
HiSilicon Kirin 9000W1.53 - 2.49 GHz12 / 12 cores
UNISOC Tiger T3101.8 - 2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK32881.8 GHz4 / 4 cores
Apple A6x « 1.4 GHzcores
Apple A61 GHzcores
Apple S52 / 2 cores
HiSilicon k3v2 Hi36201.2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK3066 1.5 GHz1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Amlogic AML8726-MX1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK31681.2 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK2918 1.2 GHz1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
ARM Cortex A8 1.2 GHz1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
Telechips TCC8803 1GHz1 GHz1 / 1 cores
Loongson 2F 900MHz0.9 GHz1 / 1 cores
CSR86700.08 GHzcores
ARM Cortex-M4 cores
HiSilicon Hi6262 cores
DK3.5+STcores
unknown cores
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
Clock1800 MHz1400 MHz1800 MHz
Cores / Threads4 / 424 / 4
Technology28 nm32 nm28 nm
FeaturesARM MAli-T624 at 600 MHz, dedicated 2D processor, 1080P H.264, VP8, MVC encoding, 4K H.264 and 10 Bits H.265 decoding, 1080p multi video decode, Dual-channel DDR3(L) memory controller, HDMI 2.0Mali-400 MP4 (600 MHz), DDR2/DDR3 Memory Controller (max. 2 GByte)
iGPUARM Mali-T760 MP4 (600 MHz)ARM Mali-400 MP4 (600 MHz)
ArchitectureARMARMARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.rk3288.comwww.rock-chips.com
CodenameCortex-A9

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
100%
1 A6x +
8647 Points (7%)
92%
1 RK3188 +
min: 5828     avg: 7773     median: 7936 (6%)     max: 8887 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
100%
1 A6x +
8627 Points (7%)
93%
1 RK3188 +
min: 5434     avg: 7724     median: 8025.5 (7%)     max: 8812 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
15496 Points (13%)
57%
A6x +
8850 Points (7%)
min: 9142     avg: 9821     median: 9821 (8%)     max: 10500 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
min: 1909     avg: 2183     median: 2182.5 (4%)     max: 2456 Points
65%
A6x +
1424 Points (3%)
min: 1316     avg: 1410     median: 1421 (3%)     max: 1493 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
min: 698     avg: 779     median: 778.5 (15%)     max: 859 Points
100%
A6x +
781 Points (15%)
min: 476     avg: 498.7     median: 504 (10%)     max: 516 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
100%
1 A6x +
1012 Points (8%)
27%
1 RK3188 +
min: 182     avg: 320     median: 272 (2%)     max: 506 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
100%
1 A6x +
2053 Points (19%)
39%
1 RK3188 +
min: 326     avg: 687     median: 803 (7%)     max: 933 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
100%
1 A6x +
2262 Points (4%)
90%
1 RK3188 +
min: 1769     avg: 2044     median: 2035 (4%)     max: 2328 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
100%
1 A6x +
1330 Points (3%)
83%
1 RK3188 +
min: 924     avg: 1123     median: 1104 (2%)     max: 1341 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
100%
1 A6x +
1768 Points (5%)
67%
1 RK3188 +
min: 1130     avg: 1275     median: 1182 (3%)     max: 1512 Points
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
100%
1 A6x +
654 MFLOPS (22%)
20%
1 RK3188 +
min: 130     avg: 131.1     median: 131.1 (4%)     max: 132.1 MFLOPS
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
100%
1 A6x +
382.4 MFLOPS (37%)
15%
1 RK3188 +
min: 54.9     avg: 57.2     median: 57.2 (6%)     max: 59.4 MFLOPS
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
100%
1 RK3288 +
min: 4753     avg: 5809     median: 5790 (7%)     max: 6884 ms
90%
1 RK3188 +
13698 ms (16%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
100%
1 RK3288 +
min: 745     avg: 746     median: 745.5 (8%)     max: 746 ms
94%
1 RK3188 +
min: 849     avg: 1179     median: 1240 (14%)     max: 1388 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
100%
1 A6x +
895 ms (8%)
98%
1 RK3188 +
min: 702     avg: 986     median: 1086 (10%)     max: 1170 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
100%
1 RK3288 +
min: 5967     avg: 6798     median: 7107 (6%)     max: 7319 Points
44%
1 RK3188 +
min: 3092     avg: 3094     median: 3093.5 (3%)     max: 3095 Points
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
100%
1 RK3188 +
5287 points (12%)
AnTuTu v3 - AnTuTu v3 CPU
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 7505     avg: 7723     median: 7807 (51%)     max: 7856 Points
AnTuTu v4 - AnTuTu v4 Total Score
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 2139     avg: 14154     median: 19571 (46%)     max: 20752 Points
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
100%
1 RK3288 +
47100 Points (16%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 179     avg: 329     median: 374 (11%)     max: 434 Iter./s
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 10329     avg: 11213     median: 11588 (38%)     max: 11722 Iter./s
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
100%
1 RK3188 +
min: 9258     avg: 10743     median: 10965 (1%)     max: 11782 Points
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score
100%
1 RK3288 +
3888 Points (19%)

Average Benchmarks Rockchip RK3288 → 100% n=3

Average Benchmarks Apple A6x → 74% n=3

Average Benchmarks Rockchip RK3188 → 64% n=3

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- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
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Redaktion, 2017-09- 8 (Update: 2023-07- 1)