Comparison of the technical characteristics between the processors, with the Qualcomm MSM8956 Snapdragon 650 on one side and the Qualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801 on the other side, also their respective performances with the benchmarks. The first is dedicated to the smartphone sector, It has 6 cores, 6 threads, a maximum frequency of 1.8GHz. The second is used on the smartphone segment, it has a total of 4 cores, 4 threads, its turbo frequency is set to 2.3 GHz. The following table also compares the lithography, the number of transistors [if indicated], the amount of cache memory, the maximum RAM memory capacity, the type of memory accepted, the release date, the maximum number of PCIe lanes, the values obtained in Geekbench and Cinebench.
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Specification comparison:
Processor Qualcomm MSM8956 Snapdragon 650 Qualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801Market [main]Smartphone SmartphoneISAARMv8-A [64-bit] ARMv7-A [32-bit]MicroarchitectureCortex-A72, Cortex-A53 Krait 400FamilySnapdragon 600 Snapdragon 800Part number[s], S-Spec
APQ8056, MSM8956, [Snapdragon 618]
MSM8974AA v3
Release dateQ1 2016 Q3 2014Lithography28 nm HPM 28 nm HPMCores6 4Threads6 4Base frequency1.4 GHz 2.26 GHzTurbo frequency1.8 GHz -Energy cores
4x ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1.4 GHz
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High performance cores
2x ARM Cortex-A72 @ 1.8 GHz
4x Qualcomm Krait 400 @ 2.26 GHz
Cache memory1 MB 2 MBMax memory capacity3 GB 2 GBMemory types
LPDDR3-933
LPDDR3-933
Max # of memory channels2 2Max memory bandwidth14.9 GB/s 14.93 GB/sTDP7 W 6 WGPU integrated graphicsQualcomm Adreno 510 Qualcomm Adreno 330 GPU execution units1 1GPU shading units128 128GPU clock600 MHz 578 MHzGPU FP32 floating point153.6 GFLOPS 147.9 GFLOPSSocketSoC SoCDSP- Qualcomm HexagonMax display resolution
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4K@30fps
Video decoding- H.265, H.264 4K@30fpsMax camera ISP- 21 MPMax video capture- 4K@30fpsCellular technologies- CDMA, EVDO, GSM, HSPA, LTEGNSS- Beidou, GLONASS, GPSLTE download speed- Up to 860 Mbit/sLTE category- Cat 4Connectivity- USB 3.0, USB 2.0Wi-Fi- Wi-Fi 802.11n/acBluetooth- Bluetooth 4.0AnTuTu76,199 45,100[Android] PassMark CPU Mark1,323 492[Android] Geekbench 4 single core1,346 973[Android] Geekbench 4 multi-core3,387 2,361[Android] Geekbench 5 single core264 148[Android] Geekbench 5 multi-core725 483[SGEMM] GFLOPS Performance25.06 GFLOPS 10.5 GFLOPS[Multi-core / watt performance] Performance / watt ratio484 pts / W 394 pts / WAmazon
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The processor Qualcomm MSM8956 Snapdragon 650 has more cores, the turbo frequency of Qualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801 is bigger, that the thermal dissipation power of Qualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801 is less. The Qualcomm MSM8956 Snapdragon 650 was designed earlier.
Performance comparison with the benchmarks:
Performance comparison between the two processors, for this we consider the results generated on benchmark software such as Geekbench.
AnTuTu - Total Score Qualcomm MSM8956 Snapdragon 650
The difference is 69%.
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AnTuTu is one of the most popular apps in the world to evaluate and compare the power of a mobile device with the competition. It tests above all the power of calculation, the display of Web pages, the modeling of decorations in 3D, the management of the memory, the transfer of data.
Android PassMark - CPU Mark Qualcomm MSM8956 Snapdragon 650
The difference in performance is 169%.
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PassMark is a benchmarking software that performs several performance tests including prime numbers, integers, floating point, compression, physics, extended instructions, encoding, sorting. The higher the score is, the higher is the device capacity.
With Android:
Geekbench 4 - Multi-core & Single Core Score - Android Qualcomm MSM8956 Snapdragon 650
In single core, the difference is 38%. In multi-core, the differential gap is 43%.
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Geekbench 4 is a complete benchmark platform with several types of tests, including data compression, images, AES encryption, SQL encoding, HTML, PDF file rendering, matrix computation, Fast Fourier Transform, 3D object simulation, photo editing, memory testing. This allows us to better visualize the respective power of these devices. For each result, we took an average of 250 values on the famous benchmark software.
With Android:
Geekbench 5 - Multi-core & Single Core Score - Android Qualcomm MSM8956 Snapdragon 650
In single core, the difference is 78%. In multi-core, the differential gap is 50%.
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Geekbench 5 is a software for measuring the performance of a computer system, for fixed devices, mobile devices, servers. This platform makes it possible to better compare the power of the CPU, the computing power and to compare it with similar or totally different systems. Geekbench 5 includes new workloads that represent work tasks and applications that we can find in reality.
Equivalence:
Qualcomm MSM8956 Snapdragon 650 Intel EquivalentQualcomm MSM8956 Snapdragon 650 AMD EquivalentQualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801 Intel EquivalentQualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801 AMD Equivalent
Smartphones with the processor Qualcomm MSM8956 Snapdragon 650:
Sony Xperia XSony Xperia X CompactXiaomi Mi MaxXiaomi Redmi Note 3Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro
Smartphones with the processor Qualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801:
LG G3OnePlus OneSamsung Galaxy S5Sony Xperia Z2Sony Xperia Z3Sony Xperia Z3 CompactXiaomi Mi 4Xiaomi Mi NoteZTE Axon