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Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 vs Samsung Exynos 4212 1.5 GHz

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960

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The Qualcomm MSM8960 (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 including LTE. The chip is produced in 28nm LP (low power process) at TSMC.

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

Samsung Exynos 4212 1.5 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.

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ModelQualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960Samsung Exynos 4212 1.5 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 « 1.5 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 compare1.2 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 « 1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex A9
Samsung Exynos 4210 1.4 GHz compare1.4 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex A9
Samsung Exynos 4210 1.2 GHz compare1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores Cortex A9
Clock1500 - 1700 MHz1500 MHz
L1 Cache64 KB128 KB
L2 Cache1 MB1 MB
Cores / Threads2 / 22 / 2
Technology28 nm32 nm
FeaturesLTE, HSPA+, EDGE, GSM, GPRS, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, FMNEON, Mali 400MP, Memory Controller
iGPUQualcomm Adreno 225 (400 MHz)
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
4439 Points (4%)
min: 5055     avg: 5067     median: 5067 (4%)     max: 5079 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
4363 Points (4%)
5262 Points (4%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
min: 555     avg: 629     median: 639.5 (5%)     max: 681 Points
min: 366     avg: 378.5     median: 378.5 (3%)     max: 391 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
min: 1394     avg: 1626     median: 1631 (15%)     max: 1849 Points
min: 1059     avg: 1091     median: 1091 (10%)     max: 1123 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
min: 1882     avg: 2487     median: 2563.5 (5%)     max: 2940 Points
min: 1791     avg: 1792     median: 1791.5 (4%)     max: 1792 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
min: 823     avg: 933     median: 922 (2%)     max: 1065 Points
min: 1027     avg: 1049     median: 1049 (2%)     max: 1071 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
min: 1281     avg: 1585     median: 1626.5 (4%)     max: 1806 Points
min: 1231     avg: 1241     median: 1240.5 (3%)     max: 1250 Points
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
242 MFLOPS (8%)
min: 91.1     avg: 93.5     median: 93.5 (3%)     max: 95.9 MFLOPS
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
134.8 MFLOPS (13%)
min: 56.4     avg: 57.4     median: 57.4 (6%)     max: 58.3 MFLOPS
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
45456 ms (53%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
min: 891     avg: 1327     median: 1045.5 (11%)     max: 2038 ms
min: 999     avg: 1128     median: 1128 (12%)     max: 1257 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
min: 915     avg: 1502     median: 1737 (16%)     max: 2447 ms
917 ms (9%)
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
min: 4616     avg: 4822     median: 4821.5 (11%)     max: 5027 points
AnTuTu v3 - AnTuTu v3 CPU
3130 Points (20%)
3564 Points (23%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
261 Iter./s (8%)
min: 244     avg: 247.5     median: 247.5 (8%)     max: 251 Iter./s
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
5886 Iter./s (19%)
min: 5107     avg: 5237     median: 5236.5 (17%)     max: 5366 Iter./s
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
5589 Points (1%)
min: 4603     avg: 4815     median: 4814.5 (1%)     max: 5026 Points

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 → 100% n=15

Average Benchmarks Samsung Exynos 4212 1.5 GHz → 86% n=15

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