Various sites have the first benchmarks run on devices with a Snapdragon 800. This is Qualcomms most powerful system-on-a-chip for smartphones and tablets until now. The soc performs similar to Cortex A15-based processors, while the gpu does better than the competition.
The Snapdragon 800 will probably find its way to many phones and tablets in the second half of this year. Samsung is using him in a faster variant of the Galaxy S4, LG is reportedly using a new top model, while also Nokia him to try out for the new Lumia and Sony, and HTC wants to apply in their large phones. Therefore, it is likely that the main soc in each case, phones will be in the second half of this year.
Sites like Engadget and Anandtech were briefly available reference designs from Qualcomm, to get the necessary benchmarks to be able to run. Cpu field takes the Snapdragon 800 the top in many benchmarks, though it must be stated, that cpu benchmarks on Android as problematic to be seen. As a replacement for native benchmarks are often browsertesten used. In Mozilla’s JavaScript benchmark, Kraken is Samsung’s Exynos 5 Dual from the Nexus 10 faster and at Google’s Octane test, both the Exynos 5 Dual as the Exynos 5 Quad of the Galaxy S4 faster.
In the area of gpu, the Snapdragon 800, with model number MSM8974, a lot of competitors ahead. The Adreno 330 should be at the low level geometry and fill rate tests of GLBenchmark 2.7 to travel against the A6 soc from Apple, but at the gametest of that benchmarksuite and Citadel and BasemarkX take the Snapdragon with away the the forefront in. Anandtech turned also 3DMark-test for comparison of pc-gpu’s. This shows that the Adreno 330 of the Snapdragon 800 now scores better than the Radeon HD 6310 AMD a Brazos-apu E-350 from 2011, against a much lower power consumption. Intel tablet soc Atom Z2750 is with great away records, but the HD 4000 of Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors is still many sizes too big. GL/DXBenchmark scores the Adreno now equivalent to a Geforce 8500 GT from 2007.
The biggest question now is what the consumption of the soc in different scenarios. Qualcomm claims that the consumption is equivalent to that of the Snapdragon 600. This would among other things be because of TSMC’s High Performance for Mobile 28nm process instead of the Low Power 28nm process, such as the Snapdragon 600 used. It is also the question of how the performance compared to the Tegra 4 of Nvidia related. Ars Technica makes an attempt the two with the Geekbench results compared to each other on the basis of the current info. The conclusion is that the Tegra 4 is prevalent, but that they are not very much inferior.
