Samsung Exynos 3250 vs Samsung Exynos 4212. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Family
  Samsung Exynos Samsung Exynos
• CPU group
  Samsung Exynos 3200 Samsung Exynos 4212/4412
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  3 2

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  2 / 2 2 / 2
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Frequency
  1.00 GHz 1.50 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  1.00 GHz 1.50 GHz
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  1.00 GHz No turbo
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  ARM Mali-400 MP2 ARM Mali-400 MP4
• GPU frequency
  0.45 GHz 0.40 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.40 GHz
• Execution units
  2 4
• Shader
  32 64
• Max. displays
  1 1
• Generation
  Utgard Utgard
• Technology
  28nm 28nm
• Release date
  Q2/2008 Q2/2008

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Samsung Exynos 4212 and Samsung Exynos 3250. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR2-400 LPDDR2-400
• ECC
  No No
• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Samsung Exynos 3250 and Samsung Exynos 4212 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Samsung Exynos 3250 and Samsung Exynos 3250, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv7-A32 (32 bit) ARMv7-A32 (32 bit)
• L2-Cache
  -- 1.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cortex-A7 Cortex-A9
• Technology
  28 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  2014 Q3/2011