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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AC is an ARM-based SoC for tablets

and smartphones. It is built at TSMC in a 28nm HPM (High Performance Mobile)
HKMG process and includes 4 Krait 400 cores at up to 2.45 GHz and a Adreno
330 at up to 578 MHz. Compared to the Snapdragon 800 chips like the
MS8974AB, the 801 offers a higher clock rate for GPU and CPU and support for
eMMC 5.0.

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The CPU portion is based on Qualcomm's Krait architecture, which is compatible with the ARMv7
ISA. Compared to the Snapdragon 600 (Krait 300), the new Krait 400 cores of the Snapdragon 801
have been tweaked just slightly with faster L2 cache. Thanks to a clock rate of up to 2.45 GHz and a
high performance per MHz somewhere between an ARM Cortex-A9 and a Cortex-A15, the
Snapdragon 801 offers very strong CPU performance. The S801 competes with the Nvidia Tegra 4,
Samsung Exynos 5420 and Apple A7 and is therefore one of the fastest ARM SoCs on the market in
the beginning of 2014 (till the Snapdragon 805 arrives).
Graphics
Another difference between the Snapdragon 600 and 800/801 is the graphics unit. While the S600
implements an Adreno 320 (400 to 450 MHz), the S800 and S801 features the faster Adreno 330
(MSM8974AC: 578 MHz). Both GPUs offer the same amount of texture units (8 TMUs), but the Adreno
330 has 50 percent more shaders (probably 6x SIMD16 vs. 4x SIMD16 of the previous generation). In
conjunction with the higher memory bandwidth, the performance is significantly better. As a result, the
Adreno 330 is slightly faster than the Mali-T628 (Exynos 5420) and comparable to the PowerVR
G6430 (Apple A7). Depending on the device and cooling, however, the performance may vary. The
GPU supports OpenGL ES 3.0 as well as OpenCL 1.2.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

MSM8994
2 GHz / 0 MB

Qualcomm Snapdragon 808

MSM8992

Furthermore, the MSM8974AC supports many wireless technologies: Bluetooth 4.0, WLAN, IEEE
802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4/5 GHz), GSM (GPRS, EDGE), W-CDMA/UMTS (HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA+,
cat.29 DC-HSPA+), MBMS, cat.4 LTE, CDMA2000 (1X RTT, 1 EV-DO Rel.0/Rev.A/Rev.B, 1 EVDO Rev.A MC, 1 Adv Rev.A/Rev.B) and TD-SCDMA. Futhermore the Snapdragon S801 supports
Dual SIM Dual Active (DSDA) as the Snapdragon S800 MSM8974AB.
The MSM8974AC can encode and play UHD 4K videos in 3840x2160 at 30 FPS (120 Mbps H.264
High Profile) simultaneously via dedicated hardware. Moreover, it supports both USB 2.0 and 3.0 and
cameras up to 55 megapixels and stereoscopic 3D.
Power Consumption

2.7 GHz / 2 MB

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

MSM8974AC
2.45 GHz / 2 MB

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

APQ8074AB
2.36 GHz / 2 MB

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

MSM8974AB
Qualcomm Snapdragon 800
MSM8974
2.3 GHz / 2 MB

Qualcomm Snapdragon 615

MSM8939
1.7 GHz / 0 MB

Qualcomm Snapdragon 610

MSM8936
1.7 GHz / 0 MB

Qualcomm Snapdragon 600

APQ8064T
1.7 GHz / 2 MB

Thanks to the new 28nm HPM HKMG process, the energy efficiency has been
improved significantly compared to its LP 28nm S600 predecessor. Depending on the field of
application, the maximum power consumption should be about 3 W for smartphones or 4 W or
greater for tablets. This should be similar to comparable ARM SoCs currently in the market. However,
the MSM8974AC will likely need a little more power than the slightly lower clocked MSM8974.

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro

APQ8064A
1.5 GHz / 2 MB

Qualcomm Snapdragon 410

MSM8916
1.4 GHz / 0 MB

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400

MSM8928

Qualcomm Snapdragon

1.6 GHz / 0 MB

Codename

Krait 400

Clock Rate

2450 MHz

Level 1 Cache

4x 32 KB

Level 2 Cache

2048 KB

Number of Cores / Threads

4/ 4

Manufacturing Technology

28 nm

Features

Adreno 330 (578 MHz), LTE cat.4, UMTS, MBMS, GSM, CDMA2000,
tD-SCDMA, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4/5 GHz), Bluetooth 4.0, 2x 32 Bit
LPDDR3-1866 Memory Controller (14.9 GB/s)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400

APQ8028
1.6 GHz / 0 MB

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro

MSM8960DT

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1.7 GHz / 1 MB

GPU

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1.7 GHz / 1 MB

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400

8930AB
1.7 GHz / 1 MB

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4
Plus APQ8060A
1.5 GHz / 1 MB

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Plus MSM8960

Benchmarks

1.5 GHz / 1 MB

Vellamo 3.x - Metal

0%

100%
min: 1510
avg: 1554.8 (56%) median: 1535 (56%) max: 1639 Points
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0%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400

MSM8926
100%

min: 1775
avg: 1877 (71%) median: 1849.5 (70%) max: 2034 Points
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100%
median: 2871 (46%)

max: 3259 Points

1.2 GHz / 0 MB

Qualcomm Snapdragon 400

MSM8226
1.2 GHz / 0 MB

Vellamo 3.x - Browser

0%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4
Plus MSM8260A
1.5 GHz / 1 MB

Vellamo 3.x - Multicore Beta

avg: 2915.2 (47%)

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2 GHz / 0 MB

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APQ8084

2.36 GHz / 2 MB

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 200

MSM8212

Octane V2 - Total Score

0%

100%
min: 3875

avg: 4691.3 (12%)

median: 4819.5 (13%)

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max: 5403 Points

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100%
min: 6243.3

avg: 6669.7 (11%)

median: 6515 (11%)

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Geekbench 3 - 32 Bit Multi-Core Score

1.2 GHz / 1 MB

0%

100%
min: 2323

avg: 2718.2 (17%)

median: 2708 (17%)

5 benchmarks and specifications

max: 3005 Points

1 GHz / 1 MB

Geekbench 3 - 32 Bit Single-Core Score

0%

100%
min: 941

avg: 966 (21%)

median: 966 (21%)

5 benchmarks and specifications

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4
Plus MSM8227

Show comparison chart

max: 1003 Points

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4
Play MSM8625Q
1.2 GHz / 0 MB

Qualcomm Snapdragon 200

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Plus MSM8930

1.2 GHz / 1 MB

max: 7279.7 ms

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1.2 GHz / 1 MB

Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Total Score

0%

1.2 GHz / 0 MB

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8225Q
1.4 GHz / 0 MB

AndEBench - Java
0%

100%
min: 559

avg: 679.4 (48%)

median: 705 (50%)

5 benchmarks and specifications

Play MSM8225Q

max: 785 Iter./s

1.2 GHz / 0 MB

Show comparison chart

AndEBench - Native
0%

100%
min: 15827
avg: 17337.8 (82%) median: 17584 (83%) max: 19265 Iter./s
5 benchmarks and specifications
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min: 12939
avg: 14303.2 (25%) median: 14039 (24%) max: 16354 Points
6 benchmarks and specifications
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1.5 GHz / 0 MB

100%
min: 17052
avg: 18114 (25%) median: 18438 (25%) max: 18920 Points
5 benchmarks and specifications
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1 GHz / 0.3 MB

100%
min: 28257
avg: 33595 (78%) median: 33919.5 (79%) max: 38284 points
4 benchmarks and specifications
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1 GHz / 0.3 MB

100%

0.6 GHz / 0 MB

Sur r oundi ng C P Us

Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Memory

100%

- AMD Athlon X2 QL-60

1.9 GHz / 1 MB

Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Floating Point

100%
min: 5168
avg: 5953 (34%) median: 6157 (35%) max: 6534 Points
3 benchmarks and specifications
Show comparison chart

1.66 GHz / 2 MB

100%

1.2 GHz / 0.5 MB + 3 MB

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

MSM8974AC
2.45 GHz / 2 MB

Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Total Score

100%
min: 3386
avg: 3805.7 (27%) median: 3965 (28%) max: 4066 Points
3 benchmarks and specifications
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2.1 GHz / 2048 KB
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2 GHz / 1024 KB

Sunspider - 1.0 Total Score

100%
min: 408.7
avg: 728.1 (18%) median: 801.4 (20%) max: 900 ms
6 benchmarks and specifications
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+ AMD A-Series A4-4355M

1.9 GHz / 2048 KB
+ Samsung Exynos 5430 Octa
1.8 GHz / 512 + 2048 KB

Sunspider - 0.9.1 Total Score

0%

2.8 GHz / 2 MB

- Intel Core i5 430UM

min: 2453
avg: 2685 (17%) median: 2720 (17%) max: 2882 Points
3 benchmarks and specifications
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0%

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- Intel Core 2 Duo T5500

Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Integer

0%

- AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60

2 GHz / 1 MB

min: 2761
avg: 3009.3 (34%) median: 2994 (34%) max: 3273 Points
3 benchmarks and specifications
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0%

1 GHz / 0 MB

Snapdragon S1 MSM7227

min: 1665
avg: 1788 (19%) median: 1728 (18%) max: 1971 Points
3 benchmarks and specifications
Show comparison chart

0%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S1
MSM7225A
Qualcomm Snapdragon S1
QSD8250

Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Stream

0%

1.2 GHz / 0 MB

Qualcomm Snapdragon S1
MSM7227A

AnTuTu Benchmark v4 - Total Score

0%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4
Play MSM8225
Qualcomm Snapdragon 200
8210

PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - CPU Tests

0%

1.7 GHz / 1 MB

1.5 GHz / 1 MB

100%

0%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S3
MSM8660
Qualcomm Snapdragon S3
MSM8260

3DMark (2013) - Ice Storm Unlimited Physics 1280x720 offscreen

0%

Qualcomm Snapdragon S4

100%

+ Mediatek MT6595
2.2 GHz / 2048 KB

min: 678.2
avg: 740.1 (7%) median: 740.1 (7%) max: 801.9 ms
2 benchmarks and specifications
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Quadrant Standard Edition 2.0 0%

100%
min: 21050
avg: 22625.7 (94%) median: 23083 (96%) max: 23744 points
3 benchmarks and specifications
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Linpack Android / IOS - Multi Thread

0%

100%
min: 605
avg: 709 (29%) median: 678 (28%) max: 952.919 MFLOPS
5 benchmarks and specifications
Show comparison chart

Linpack Android / IOS - Single Thread

0%

100%

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min: 281.32

avg: 339.9 (33%)

median: 355 (35%)

5 benchmarks and specifications

max: 388.117 MFLOPS

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