Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8625Q vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 8225Q

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8225

The Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8225 is an entry level SoC for (Android) tablets and smartphones. It contains a Cortex-A5 based dual core processor and an Adreno 203 graphics card. 

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8625Q

The Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play MSM8625Q is an entry level ARM SoC for cheap Android based smartphones. It integrates four Cortex-A5 cores clocked at up to 1.2 GHz, a Adreno 203 graphics card, a LPDDR2 memory controller and a CDMA/UMTS, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, HSPA, EV-DO Rev. A/B modem.

The Corex-A5 cores offer a lower performance per MHz than the Cortex A7 and A9 cores and therefore the SoC suffers from a rather low single thread performance. 

The SoC is manufactured in 45nm at TSMC, but thanks to the small Cortex-A5 cores, the SoC can be used in small smartphones.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 8225Q

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 8225Q 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 1.4 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.