Nexus 7-2: test reveals Snapdragon 600 SoC instead of S4 Pro CPU

The Nexus 7-2 has provided the Qualcomm S4 Pro 8064 in the technical circuits for the CPU. Experts were amazed at why Asus and Google used an earlier-generation processor instead of the current Snapdragon 600-SoC (system on a chip). The S4 Pro processor was introduced in mid-2012 and can be found on the Nexus 4 smartphone. Now the online hardware magazine Anandtech found out that the processor of the Nexus 7-2 (Nexus 7 2013 or “The new Nexus 7”) could possibly be a Snapdragon 600.

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The editor of Anandtech had already tested the Nexus 7-2 and was able to get a better picture of the installed hardware of the new Google tablet. At the processor, they came across the designation APQ8064-1AA, with the appendix 1AA attracting particular attention at the tester. At another glance, Anandtech came across 2 GB of RAM for DDR3L standard and 300 instead of 200 kraits. Krait is ARM-based processor units of the Qualcomm S4 series.


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In the next step, Anandtech identified the specifications of a current Snapdragon 600 SoC for a Snapdragon S4 Pro processor. The clock would therefore only screwed down, from normally 1.7 to 1.9 GHz to 1.5 GHz, as we reported in our report to the Nexus 7-2 (The new Nexus 7) already. Google has not commented on the findings of Anandtech so far. For the time being, the report of Anandtch remains speculation. Background to SoC vs CPU: While a CPU accesses data from the memory and computes it, a SoC combines components like the memory on a silicon core. The advantage: More functionality and the chips become smaller, and thus the devices.