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Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8226 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8226

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8226 is an entry-level ARM-SoC for Android smartphones. It integrates four Cortex-A7 cores at up to 1.2 GHz (Quad-Core) and a Adreno 305 graphics card at 450 MHz. Furthermore, a HSPA+ radio, WLAN (b,g,n) and Bluetooth 4.0 are integrated in the SoC.

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.

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ModelQualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8226Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960
CodenameARMv7ARMv7
SeriesQualcomm SnapdragonQualcomm Snapdragon
Series: Snapdragon ARMv7
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 MSM89601.5 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 « 1.2 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
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 MSM82261.2 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
Clock1200 MHz1500 - 1700 MHz
Cores / Threads4 / 42 / 2
Technology28 nm28 nm
FeaturesHSPA+, EDGE, GSM, GPRS, WiFi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0LTE, HSPA+, EDGE, GSM, GPRS, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, FM
iGPUQualcomm Adreno 305 (450 MHz)Qualcomm Adreno 225 (400 MHz)
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced
Manufacturerwww.qualcomm.com
L1 Cache64 KB
L2 Cache1 MB

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
min: 6279     avg: 7206     median: 7273 (6%)     max: 7619 Points
4439 Points (4%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
min: 6229     avg: 7302     median: 7454.5 (6%)     max: 7768 Points
4363 Points (4%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited Physics
min: 6150     avg: 7381     median: 7724 (6%)     max: 7983 Points
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Single-Core
435 Points (6%)
Geekbench 4.0 - Geekbench 4.0 64 Bit Multi-Core
1109 Points (2%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
min: 1027     avg: 1123     median: 1147 (2%)     max: 1169 Points
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
min: 326     avg: 338.3     median: 341 (7%)     max: 347 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
min: 268     avg: 283.8     median: 286 (2%)     max: 295 Points
min: 555     avg: 629     median: 639.5 (5%)     max: 681 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
min: 1078     avg: 1205     median: 1225 (11%)     max: 1290 Points
min: 1394     avg: 1626     median: 1631 (15%)     max: 1849 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
min: 1782     avg: 1807     median: 1788 (4%)     max: 1870 Points
min: 1882     avg: 2487     median: 2563.5 (5%)     max: 2940 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
min: 1019     avg: 1057     median: 1065.5 (2%)     max: 1077 Points
min: 823     avg: 933     median: 922 (2%)     max: 1065 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
min: 1244     avg: 1271     median: 1279 (3%)     max: 1282 Points
min: 1281     avg: 1585     median: 1626.5 (4%)     max: 1806 Points
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
min: 190     avg: 223.4     median: 225.4 (8%)     max: 248.8 MFLOPS
242 MFLOPS (8%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
min: 52.7     avg: 76.1     median: 81.5 (8%)     max: 89.7 MFLOPS
134.8 MFLOPS (13%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 14907     avg: 19470     median: 17405 (20%)     max: 26891 ms
45456 ms (53%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
min: 983     avg: 1374     median: 1243 (14%)     max: 2244 ms
min: 891     avg: 1327     median: 1045.5 (11%)     max: 2038 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
min: 1067     avg: 1204     median: 1133 (11%)     max: 1413 ms
min: 915     avg: 1502     median: 1737 (16%)     max: 2447 ms
Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 1085     avg: 1594     median: 1449 (1%)     max: 2217 Points
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Metal
min: 623     avg: 760     median: 800 (21%)     max: 858 Points
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Multicore Beta
min: 1222     avg: 1331     median: 1376 (31%)     max: 1394 Points
Vellamo 3.x - Vellamo 3.x Browser
min: 1644     avg: 1670     median: 1672 (22%)     max: 1693 Points
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
min: 8832     avg: 9189     median: 9018 (21%)     max: 9886 points
AnTuTu v3 - AnTuTu v3 CPU
3130 Points (20%)
AnTuTu v4 - AnTuTu v4 Total Score
min: 15351     avg: 16709     median: 16962.5 (39%)     max: 17360 Points
AnTuTu v5 - AnTuTu v5 Total Score
min: 17280     avg: 17980     median: 17949 (18%)     max: 18711 Points
AnTuTu v6 - AnTuTu v6 Total Score
23500 Points (8%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
min: 291     avg: 330.6     median: 337 (10%)     max: 343 Iter./s
261 Iter./s (8%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
min: 6050     avg: 6377     median: 6412 (21%)     max: 6487 Iter./s
5886 Iter./s (19%)
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
min: 6912     avg: 7247     median: 7300.5 (1%)     max: 7468 Points
5589 Points (1%)

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8226 → 100% n=15

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 → 105% n=15

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