The first benchmarks of a Qualcomm processor, the next-generation online appeared. The dualcore soc with Krait core scores much better than similar dualcores and much better than the variant with the old Scorpion core.
Devices that have a processor with Krait core from Qualcomm will be maybe next week, all announced on telecombeurs Mobile World Congress. The HTC One S is claimed that this is a dualcore soc from Qualcomm that is based on the new core, an MSM8260A. May be also other smartphones with Krait-socs announced at the telecombeurs.
AnandTech has the benchmarks running on a ontwikkelaarstoestel with a MSM8960-soc, a dual-core which the processor cores are clocked at 1.5 GHz, as high as the ‘old’ MSM8260 in the HTC Sensation XE. Krait is the new core that Qualcomm is going to use. The chipmaker bases are processors not on the Cortex cores from ARM itself, but makes its own micro-architecture based on ARM instruction sets. The current core, Scorpion, is applied since 2009, when the Snapdragon QSD8250 came out. The QSD8250 was the processor in the HTC HD2 and Desire.
From the benchmarks showed that the processor was substantially higher scores than comparable dualcores. With the Linpack benchmark is the score, both single – as multi-threaded more than twice as high as with other dualcores. On browserbenchmarks as Sunspider and BrowserMark, the results are much less impressive, although the Krait-soc, there are still tens of percents faster than the competitors of the previous generation. The gpu, Adreno 225, the score is not so impressive. The Galaxy S II scores higher than the ontwikkelaarstoestel on GLBenchMark PRO 720p, while the iPhone 4S with its PowerVR SGX543 on almost every point better scores than the Krait-soc.
