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Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8260A vs HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 vs Apple A6x

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8260A

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The Qualcomm MSM8260A (Snapdragon S4 series) is a ARM based high-end smartphone SoC in 2012. It contains two Krait (ARMv7) CPU cores at 1.5 - 1.7 GHz, a Adreno 225 GPU (400 MHz), a LPDDR2 memory controller (up to 500 MHz) and radio elements.  The chip is produced in 28nm LP (low power process) at TSMC. Compared to the MSM8960, the 8260A does not support LTE.

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

HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620

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Coretex A9 Quad-Core - max 1.5 GHz, im Huawei Mediapad 10 FHD mit 1.2 GHz

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.

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ModelQualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8260AHiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620Apple A6x
SeriesQualcomm Snapdragon Apple
CodenameARMv7
Series:
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064A1.5 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM89281.6 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 APQ80281.6 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro MSM8960T1.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 8930AB1.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus APQ8060A1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM89601.5 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8260A « 1.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM89261.2 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM82261.2 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 APQ80261.2 GHz4 / 4 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM89301.2 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM82301.2 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM82271 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM86601.7 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 MSM82601.5 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 QSD82501 GHz1 / 1 cores ARMv7
HiSilicon Kirin 9000W1.53 - 2.49 GHz12 / 12 cores
UNISOC Tiger T3101.8 - 2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK32881.8 GHz4 / 4 cores
Apple A6x1.4 GHz2 cores
Apple A61 GHz2 cores
Apple S52 / 2 cores
HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 « 1.2 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 GHz2 cores
ARM Cortex-M4 cores
HiSilicon Hi6262 cores
DK3.5+ST2 cores
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 GHz2 cores
Apple A61 GHz2 cores
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 GHz2 cores
ARM Cortex-M4 cores
HiSilicon Hi6262 cores
DK3.5+ST2 cores
unknown cores
Clock1700 MHz1200 MHz1400 MHz
L1 Cache64 KB
L2 Cache1 MB
Cores / Threads2 / 24 / 42
Technology28 nm40 nm32 nm
FeaturesHSPA+, EDGE, GSM, GPRS, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, FMARMv7
iGPUQualcomm Adreno 225 (400 MHz)
ArchitectureARMARMARM
Announced

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
min: 3209     avg: 4477     median: 4894 (4%)     max: 5167 Points
177%
1 A6x +
8647 Points (7%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
min: 5354     avg: 5357     median: 5357 (4%)     max: 5360 Points
161%
1 A6x +
8627 Points (7%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
100%
1 A6x +
8850 Points (7%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
1094 Points (2%)
130%
1 A6x +
1424 Points (3%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
327 Points (6%)
239%
1 A6x +
781 Points (15%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
min: 323     avg: 514     median: 598 (5%)     max: 622 Points
min: 439     avg: 489.9     median: 500 (4%)     max: 547 Points
169%
A6x +
1012 Points (8%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
min: 1655     avg: 1670     median: 1673 (15%)     max: 1681 Points
min: 940     avg: 1187     median: 1218 (11%)     max: 1290 Points
123%
A6x +
2053 Points (19%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
min: 259     avg: 1604     median: 2254 (4%)     max: 2298 Points
min: 1793     avg: 2360     median: 2351 (5%)     max: 2731 Points
100%
A6x +
2262 Points (4%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
min: 685     avg: 891     median: 970 (2%)     max: 1017 Points
min: 1000     avg: 1317     median: 1275 (3%)     max: 1591 Points
137%
A6x +
1330 Points (3%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
min: 693     avg: 1258     median: 1525 (4%)     max: 1556 Points
min: 1209     avg: 1573     median: 1557 (4%)     max: 1819 Points
116%
A6x +
1768 Points (5%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
min: 167.2     avg: 175.4     median: 172.5 (6%)     max: 186.4 MFLOPS
min: 92.3     avg: 133.3     median: 138.1 (5%)     max: 151.8 MFLOPS
379%
A6x +
654 MFLOPS (22%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
min: 91     avg: 96.2     median: 95 (9%)     max: 102.5 MFLOPS
min: 37.8     avg: 44.2     median: 46.6 (5%)     max: 48.71 MFLOPS
403%
A6x +
382.4 MFLOPS (37%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
26477 ms (31%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
min: 896     avg: 1487     median: 1624 (15%)     max: 1804 ms
min: 1522     avg: 1643     median: 1540 (15%)     max: 2080 ms
108%
A6x +
895 ms (8%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
min: 856     avg: 2197     median: 1610 (18%)     max: 4026 ms
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
4527 points (10%)
min: 4404     avg: 4736     median: 4736 (11%)     max: 5068 points
AnTuTu v3 - AnTuTu v3 CPU
min: 4820     avg: 5667     median: 5662 (37%)     max: 6713 Points
AnTuTu v4 - AnTuTu v4 Total Score
14434 Points (34%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
min: 92     avg: 191     median: 191 (6%)     max: 290 Iter./s
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
min: 8740     avg: 8897     median: 8897 (29%)     max: 9054 Iter./s
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
min: 8223     avg: 8737     median: 8678 (1%)     max: 9118 Points

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8260A → 100% n=8

Average Benchmarks HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 → 91% n=8

Average Benchmarks Apple A6x → 192% n=8

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* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
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Redaktion, 2017-09- 8 (Update: 2023-07- 1)