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Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960

Qualcomm S4 Plus MSM8960

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.

ModelunknownQualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960
Series Qualcomm Snapdragon
Series: Snapdragon ARMv7
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Architecturex86ARM
CodenameARMv7
Clock1500 - 1700 MHz
L1 Cache64 KB
L2 Cache1 MB
Cores / Threads2 / 2
Technology28 nm
FeaturesLTE, HSPA+, EDGE, GSM, GPRS, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, FM
iGPUQualcomm Adreno 225 (400 MHz)
Announced

Benchmarks

Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64 Bit
100%
1 unknown +
min: 1029     avg: 1038     median: 1038 (7%)     max: 1047 Points
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
4439 Points (4%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
4363 Points (4%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
100%
1 unknown +
37732 Points (32%)
3DMark - 3DMark Cloud Gate Physics
100%
1 unknown +
8923 Points (23%)
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy CPU
100%
1 unknown +
5039 Points (21%)
3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
100%
1 unknown +
min: 3612     avg: 4808     median: 4807.5 (57%)     max: 6003 Points
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 Single-Core
100%
1 unknown +
min: 920     avg: 1183     median: 1183 (32%)     max: 1446 Points
Geekbench 6.2 - Geekbench 6.2 Multi-Core
100%
1 unknown +
min: 2252     avg: 3368     median: 3368 (13%)     max: 4484 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 unknown +
min: 687     avg: 887     median: 887 (37%)     max: 1087 Points
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 unknown +
min: 2071     avg: 3146     median: 3146 (6%)     max: 4221 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Single-Core
100%
1 unknown +
min: 3175     avg: 4274     median: 4788 (48%)     max: 4860 Points
Geekbench 4.4 - Geekbench 4.1 - 4.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
100%
1 unknown +
min: 8143     avg: 12683     median: 14710 (16%)     max: 15196 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
min: 555     avg: 629     median: 639.5 (5%)     max: 681 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
min: 1394     avg: 1626     median: 1631 (15%)     max: 1849 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
min: 1882     avg: 2487     median: 2563.5 (5%)     max: 2940 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
min: 823     avg: 933     median: 922 (2%)     max: 1065 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
min: 1281     avg: 1585     median: 1626.5 (4%)     max: 1806 Points
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
13 MFLOPS (0%)
242 MFLOPS (8%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
12.8 MFLOPS (1%)
134.8 MFLOPS (13%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 779.1     avg: 5662     median: 1253.9 (1%)     max: 14953 ms
45456 ms (53%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
7004 ms (66%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
min: 891     avg: 1327     median: 1045.5 (11%)     max: 2038 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
100%
1 unknown +
min: 2672     avg: 21642     median: 17303 (16%)     max: 49290 Points
WebXPRT 4 - WebXPRT 4 Score
0 Points (0%)
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
0 Points (0%)
AnTuTu v3 - AnTuTu v3 CPU
3130 Points (20%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
261 Iter./s (8%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
5886 Iter./s (19%)
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
5589 Points (1%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 random write internal
100%
1 unknown +
37 MB/s (27%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 seq write internal
100%
1 unknown +
587 MB/s (18%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 random read internal
100%
1 unknown +
18.7 MB/s (23%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 seq read internal
100%
1 unknown +
712 MB/s (20%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Storage 2.0 score
100%
1 unknown +
21410 Points (34%)
PCMark for Android - PCM f. Android Work Score 3.0
100%
1 unknown +
13575 Points (63%)
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
100%
1 unknown +
min: 598     avg: 815     median: 814.5 (31%)     max: 1031 Points

Average Benchmarks unknown → 100% n=4

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 → 805% n=4

- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation

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