Samsung Exynos 5250
Benchmarks & Specs

Name: Samsung Exynos 5250
Brand: Samsung
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

Last updated: 2025-07-25

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

The Samsung Exynos 5250 was a remarkable mobile processor in its time. It utilized the advanced Cortex-A15 architecture. This enabled a noticeable increase in computing power for mobile devices. In addition, it was manufactured using the then-modern 32 nm process. That contributed to the chip's energy efficiency.

The integrated graphics unit, an ARM Mali-T604 MP4, showed good performance for its time. It supported demanding mobile applications and games quite well. We remembered how smoothly many tasks ran with it. The processor also had a 1 MB Level 2 cache. This significantly improved data access. Thus, the Samsung Exynos 5250 offered a solid foundation.

It delivered good system performance. For its era, this was truly a powerful package. It demonstrated Samsung's aspiration to develop high-quality mobile chips. This chip shaped an entire generation of devices. Its architecture was groundbreaking for future designs.

Advanced Cortex-A15 Architecture
Efficient 32 nm Manufacturing
Powerful ARM Mali-T604 MP4 Graphics

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank ? / ?
In segment Smartphone / Tablet

Multi-core performance

Rank ? / ?
In segment Smartphone / Tablet

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Qualcomm Adreno 304

ARM Mali-T720 MP2

ARM Mali-T604 MP4

ARM Mali-400 MP4

ARM Mali-400 MP4

More benchmarks

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Property	Value
Family	Samsung Exynos (49)
CPU group	Samsung Exynos 5250 (1)
Architecture	Cortex-A15
Technology	32 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Generation	2
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Property	Value
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 2
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗
Core architecture	normal
Cores:	2x Cortex-A15
Frequency:	1.70 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores):
L2-Cache	1.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	No

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Property	Value
GPU name	ARM Mali-T604 MP4
GPU frequency	0.53 - 0.53 GHz
CUs / Shader	4 / 64
Raytracing	✗
Max. displays	1
Max. GPU Memory
Technology	32nm
Release date	Q4/2012

NPU AI performance

Property	Value
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Memory type	Memory bandwidth
LPDDR3-800	--
Property	Value
Max. Memory
Memory channels	0
ECC	✗
PCIe
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Property	Value
TDP
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Property	Value
Chip design
AES-NI	✗
Operating systems	Android
Instruction set	Armv7-A (32 bit)
ISA extensions
Release date	Q4/2011
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

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