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Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8227 vs Apple A6

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8227

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The Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8277 is a mid-range SoC for smartphones and tablets (mostly Android based). It contains two Krait (improved ARM Cortex-A9) CPU cores at 1.0 GHz and a Adreno 305 graphics card. A memory controller and radio elements (excluding LTE) are also included. The chip is produced in 28nm LP process at TSMC.

Apple A6

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The Apple A6 is a dual-core SoC found in the iPhone 5 with ARM compatible CPU cores. The A6 was developed by Apple and supports the extended ARMv7s instruction set. The clock rate of the CPU is between 800 to 1200 MHz depending on the CPU load. The integrated GPU is a PowerVR SGX543MP3 at 266 MHz.

ModelQualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8227Apple A6
SeriesQualcomm SnapdragonApple
CodenameARMv7
Series:
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 compare1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores ARMv7
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8227 « 1 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
newitem compare cores
HiSilicon Kirin 9000W compare1.53 - 2.49 GHz12 / 12 cores
UNISOC Tiger T310 compare1.8 - 2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK3288 compare1.8 GHz4 / 4 cores
Apple A6x compare1.4 GHzcores
Apple A6 « 1 GHzcores
Apple S5 compare2 / 2 cores
HiSilicon k3v2 Hi3620 compare1.2 GHz4 / 4 cores
Rockchip RK3066 1.5 GHz compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Amlogic AML8726-MX compare1.5 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK3168 compare1.2 GHz2 / 2 cores
Rockchip RK2918 1.2 GHz compare1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
ARM Cortex A8 1.2 GHz compare1.2 GHz1 / 1 cores
Telechips TCC8803 1GHz compare1 GHz1 / 1 cores
Loongson 2F 900MHz compare0.9 GHz1 / 1 cores
CSR8670 compare0.08 GHzcores
ARM Cortex-M4 compare cores
HiSilicon Hi6262 compare cores
DK3.5+ST comparecores
unknown compare cores
Clock1000 MHz1000 MHz
L1 Cache64 KB
L2 Cache1 MB
Cores / Threads2 / 22
Technology28 nm32 nm
FeaturesHSPA+, EDGE, GSM, GPRS, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, FM
iGPUQualcomm Adreno 305
ArchitectureARMARM
Announced

Benchmarks

3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Physics
3812 Points (3%)
209%
A6 +
7961 Points (6%)
3DMark - 3DMark Ice Storm Extreme Physics
3805 Points (3%)
205%
A6 +
7816 Points (6%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Multi-Core
619 Points (1%)
206%
A6 +
1273 Points (2%)
Geekbench 3 - Geekbench 3 32 Bit Single-Core
349 Points (7%)
202%
A6 +
min: 701     avg: 706     median: 705.5 (14%)     max: 710 Points
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Stream
472 Points (4%)
199%
A6 +
940 Points (8%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Memory
1158 Points (10%)
161%
A6 +
1867 Points (17%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Floating Point
1385 Points (3%)
153%
A6 +
2114 Points (4%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Integer
571 Points (1%)
221%
A6 +
1261 Points (3%)
Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Geekbench Total Score
963 Points (3%)
171%
A6 +
1648 Points (4%)
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Multi Thread
153.9 MFLOPS (5%)
344%
A6 +
min: 484     avg: 530     median: 529.5 (18%)     max: 575 MFLOPS
Linpack Android / IOS - Linpack Single Thread
103.1 MFLOPS (10%)
327%
A6 +
min: 309.4     avg: 337.3     median: 337.3 (33%)     max: 365.2 MFLOPS
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
100%
1 A6 +
14535 ms (17%)
Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
min: 1417     avg: 1670     median: 1669.5 (18%)     max: 1922 ms
113%
A6 +
min: 714     avg: 722     median: 722 (8%)     max: 730 ms
Sunspider - Sunspider 0.9.1 Total Score *
min: 1296     avg: 1693     median: 1435 (14%)     max: 2180 ms
105%
A6 +
935 ms (9%)
Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 - Quadrant Standard 2.0 Total Score
4143 points (10%)
AnTuTu v3 - AnTuTu v3 CPU
2770 Points (18%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Java
176 Iter./s (5%)
AndEBench - AndEBench Native
968 Iter./s (3%)
PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - PerformanceTest Mobile V1 CPU Tests
3632 Points (0%)
688%
A6 +
24996 Points (3%)

Average Benchmarks Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8227 → 100% n=14

Average Benchmarks Apple A6 → 236% n=14

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