Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974) Performance Preview: Qualcomm Mobile Development Tablet Tested
by Brian Klug on June 18, 2013 8:00 PM ESTBasemark X
Basemark X is a new addition to our mobile GPU benchmark suite. There are no low level tests here, just some game simulation tests run at both onscreen (device resolution) and offscreen (1080p, no vsync) settings. The scene complexity is far closer to GLBenchmark 2.7 than the new 3DMark Ice Storm benchmark, so frame rates are pretty low:
Once again we see absolutely tremendous increases in performance if we look at Basemark X. Adreno 330 improves performance over Adreno 320 by 95%, the advantage over PowerVR SGX 544MP3 is also quite impressive. Snapdragon 800 also holds a 41% performance advantage over Apple's A6X in the iPad 4 (PowerVR SGX 554M4).
Epic Citadel
Epic's Citadel benchmark gives us a good indication of lighter workload, v-sync limited performance at native resolution. At 1080p, the Snapdragon 800 MDP/T offers over 50% better performance than the Snapdragon 600 based platforms. Granted we're comparing to smartphones here so there's some thermal advantage playing to the 800's favor.
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akbisw - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - link
YESSS!!! THANK YOU QUALCOMM exactly What I expected!!!Piano Man - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - link
Nice performance, but the lack of power utilization benchmarks prevents me from breaking out the party favors for the time being.clemsyn - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - link
I agree, power utilization and heat are very important in mobile. Hope this don't come with a fan :)Xilliox - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - link
I have been working on this for a long time, trust me, it does not need a fan!FwFred - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - link
Comparing phones to a tablet is a bit odd. Glad there was a Nexus 10 at least.kcsween - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - link
You all almost sound like this is Qualcomm's first go at making a mobile processor. I'd find it very hard to believe that they'd not take into consideration power consumption and heat or any other negative factors they considered when they made their other chips. Having said that, all that could be out the door in the race bigger and better, who knows. Guess we all will have to wait and see how this things performs in an actual smartphone.arkhamasylum87 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - link
How does this compare to the Ivybridge or Haswell Y series processors in terms of CPU/GPU performance? Would like to see those comparisons. So we can extrapolate how this will compare to a fanless Core product from Intel. The gap is there in terms of connectivity but the perf gaps on CPU/GPU would be interesting to note.teiglin - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - link
Ivy Y no longer seems interesting to me but for the moment, Haswell 15W (both HD4600/5000) would be super interesting to add to the "great equalizer" page of charts. Doesn't Anand have an Acer with i7-4500U as well as the MBA with i5-4250U? Demand he run some benchmarks for you so you can update those charts. The comparison to i5-3317U made sense against APQ8064T, but 8974's contemporary is Haswell, not Ivy.And when you have Haswell Y samples, those would be neat, too. :)
jeffkro - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - link
15W still requires a fan.sna1970 - Tuesday, July 9, 2013 - link
not really,the Haswell can run from 6 watts up to 15 watts.