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Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chipset benchmarked, is way faster than anything on the market

By on February 21, 2012 at 2:40pm in Mobile News

If the benchmarks done by AnandTech of Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon S4 chipset are any indication of real world performance, Nvidia and Texas Instruments are in for a rude awakening. Currently, the company’s S3 chip, the MSM8660, is in myriad devices from the HTC Amaze to the Samsung Galaxy Note.

The MSM8960 incorporates a brand new CPU architecture manufactured with a 28nm process, down from the 40nm of previous generations, and initial CPU benchmarks blow away the competition. It’s easy to see between 50-100% improvement in some areas, doubling the previous winner, also a Qualcomm chip. It will also be the industry’s first SoC to build LTE connectivity onto the die, something that every other company is relying on separate chips for at the moment, affecting battery life in a big way.

Where the Snapdragon S4 makes limited improvement is in its GPU performance, since the Adreno 225 processor is merely an upgraded Adreno 220. Nevertheless, the results are still very competitive with the latest Tegra 3 and Exynos chips. While Samsung’s Mali-400MP4 and PowerVR’s SGX543MP2 are nominally faster in some respects, the potent combination of the S4 CPU and Adreno 225 GPU are going to make for extremely competitive products from Qualcomm in 2012 and beyond.

Check out all the incredible benchmarks over at AnandTech.

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22 comments for “Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chipset benchmarked, is way faster than anything on the market”

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    Posted by WP74Life | February 21, 2012, 3:00 pm
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  2. If that’s real I want.

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    Posted by keiYUI | February 21, 2012, 3:03 pm
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  3. I will wait for the new Galaxy note that will have the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4, wow that’s will be great

    Sent from my Rogers Galaxy NOTE

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    Posted by SAM | February 21, 2012, 3:13 pm
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  4. if you think this is fake you are retarded and probably dont know that anandtech is one of the most respected in the buisness, they are benchmarking on a qualcomm reference phone. the cpu is similar to the new arm a15, cpu wise the soc blows everything out the water, the gpu although not the most powerful its up there and in itself is very potent

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    Posted by kris | February 21, 2012, 3:14 pm
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  5. lol so unnecessary …. what cant a dual core phone do ?

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    Posted by BIG BOY | February 21, 2012, 3:31 pm
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  6. can’t wait for the s4 Note,
    if available now, will switch my note (which i got last Tue) for it.
    right, Sam?

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    Posted by ebee | February 21, 2012, 3:33 pm
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  7. Just picked up a Galaxy Note. I’m guessing we won’t see this chip for at least a good 8 years in Canada. But it makes me glad that I supported Qualcomm in my purchase.

    To be honest, all the different ARM chips are great and I’d take any one of them in a device.

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    Posted by Omega | February 21, 2012, 3:46 pm
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  8. The competition in the SoC space between Qualcomm, nVidia and TI is great. We consumers are the real beneficiaries.

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    Posted by Netguru | February 21, 2012, 3:53 pm
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  9. They sure can engineer some good hardware, but that phone looks so damn ugly.

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    Posted by MonkeyFace | February 21, 2012, 4:05 pm
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  10. Sorry, but with that GPU they can shove it. I use my phone and tablet as output devices to the TV. Doing that and running some of the more demanding games isn’t currently possible. Maybe on the S2, don’t know, but the current GPU chipset just isn’t sufficient. Maybe Samsung can developer a better chip. Maybe Nvidia can. Maybe even QC. Maybe the current GPU is just more of a place holder… hopefully.

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    Posted by Matt | February 21, 2012, 4:14 pm
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  11. Everyones forgetting Intel Medfield. Their tests have been very impressive too.

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    Posted by Reggie Noble | February 21, 2012, 4:23 pm
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  12. This is seriously getting boring now. Aren’t phones already fast enough for what we do on them. Come out with some innovation. Don’t just keep upgrading specs. Specs are nice but try something socially revolutionary or just something new.

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    Posted by Natasha | February 21, 2012, 4:31 pm
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  13. As long they all blow Apple and its “A” processors, that’s all that matters :)

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    Posted by EmperumanV | February 21, 2012, 4:40 pm
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  14. Too bad it’s not a production verson just like last time Qualcomm had all these great results and then meh.

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    Posted by KingK | February 21, 2012, 5:41 pm
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  15. @Natasha…

    Speak for yourself, I would like my phone to run a VMware session of Windows 7 so I don’t even have to buy a laptop again. That way, I can simply plug my USB keyboard/mouse combo into my phone and then output it to my monitor.

    This is where it is headed… eventually, you will be able to use Bluetooth and wireless HDMI for all this. Hence the reason for improving the specs.

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    Posted by Slype | February 21, 2012, 5:46 pm
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    Posted by jason4 | February 21, 2012, 8:20 pm
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  17. id be happily suprised if this is the chip that rim is putting in their bbx phones.

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    Posted by awesomeP | February 22, 2012, 12:18 am
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