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Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8230 vs Samsung Exynos 4210 1.4 GHz

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8230

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The Qualcomm MSM8230 (Snapdragon S4 Plus series) is a ARM based high-end smartphone SoC in 2012. It contains two Krait (ARMv7) CPU cores at up to 1.2 GHz, a Adreno 305 GPU, a single channel LPDDR2 memory controller and radio elements.  The chip is produced in 28nm LP (low power process) at TSMC. Compared to the MSM8930, the 8230 lacks LTE.

The Krait cores offer a slightly better performance as the standard Cortex-A9 cores and are compatible to the NEON SIMD extensions.

Samsung Exynos 4210 1.4 GHz

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The Samsung Exynos 4 Dual (formerly known as Exynos 4210) is a dual-core Cortex-A9 based SoC with a ARM Mali-400 MP4 graphics card. Clocked at 1.4 GHz (CPU), the 4210 was used in the Galaxy Note, Galaxy Tab 7.7 and Meizu MX. The 1.2 GHz version can be found here.

ModelQualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8230Samsung Exynos 4210 1.4 GHz
SeriesQualcomm SnapdragonSamsung Exynos
CodenameARMv7Cortex A9
Series: Exynos Cortex A9
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064A compare1.5 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8928 compare1.6 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 APQ8028 compare1.6 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro MSM8960T compare1.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930AB compare1.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus APQ8060A compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8260A compare1.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8926 compare1.2 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8226 compare1.2 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 APQ8026 compare1.2 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8930 compare1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8230 « 1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8227 compare1 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8660 compare1.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM8260 compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 QSD8250 compare1 GHz1 / 1 cores ARMv7
Samsung Exynos 4412 Quad compare1.4 GHz4 / 4 cores Cortex A9
Samsung Exynos 4212 1.5 GHz compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex A9
Samsung Exynos 4210 1.4 GHz « 1.4 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex A9
Samsung Exynos 4210 1.2 GHz compare1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex A9
Clock1200 MHz1400 MHz
L1 Cache64 KB128 KB
L2 Cache1 MB1 MB
Cores / Threads2 / 22 / 2
Technology28 nm45 nm
FeaturesHSPA+, EDGE, GSM, GPRS, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, FMNEON, Mali 400MP, Memory Controller
iGPUQualcomm Adreno 305
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.samsung.com

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
min: 4020     avg: 4586     median: 4586 (4%)     max: 5152 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
4038 Points (3%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
457 Points (1%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
454 Points (9%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
536 Points (4%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
1320 Points (12%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
1515 Points (3%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
670 Points (1%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
1082 Points (3%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
min: 183.5     avg: 194.6     median: 194.6 (7%)     max: 205.7 MFLOPS
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
min: 37.71     avg: 85.8     median: 85.8 (8%)     max: 133.9 MFLOPS
61.6 MFLOPS (6%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
16231 ms (19%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
min: 1154     avg: 1812     median: 1811.5 (20%)     max: 2469 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
min: 1055     avg: 1261     median: 1125 (11%)     max: 1604 ms
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
min: 4202     avg: 4658     median: 4658 (11%)     max: 5114 points
AnTuTu v3 - AnTuTu v3 CPU
2394 Points (16%)
AnTuTu v4 - AnTuTu v4 Total Score
14895 Points (35%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
236 Iter./s (7%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
5123 Iter./s (17%)
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
min: 3723     avg: 4294     median: 4294 (1%)     max: 4865 Points

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8230 → 100% n=1

Average Benchmarks Samsung Exynos 4210 1.4 GHz → 72% n=1

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Redaktion, 2017-09- 8 (Update: 2023-07- 1)