I just don't understand why Samsung would choose this processor instead of using one of their own in house Exynos processors which I'm sure they could supply cheaper since they produce them.
I'm not sure they can manufacture enough Exynos 4410. My understanding is that some of the SGS2 use non-Exynos because of supply problems.
I have played around a lot with the Bionic, and I'm sorry Bionic owners, but it flat out sucks. Typical Android UI lagginess because the OMAP processor sucks. Read any mobile processor benchmark testing review and you will see that Exynos spanks everything.
Bionic may have UI lagginess due to Blur and the fact that it's pushing around 35% more pixels than SGS2. Prime is supposedly going to be vanilla, but it will have even more pixels. Bionic's 4430's GPU isn't very good, but the 4460 w/same GPU will be clocked 26% higher.
I believe the 4460, even if clocked at 1.5ghz, will be a downgrade from the 4410 at 1.2Ghz(proc in SGSII).
Perhaps in 3D apps, but I think CPU-wise a 1.5GHz 4460 will be considerably faster.
Why would samsung pay more money for a OMAP 4460 when they could use the Exynos 4410?
See above, maybe they don't have enough available.
I know that reports are stating the 1.5Ghz Exynos 4412 will not start sampling until Q4 2011, but that is for 3rd party devices not Samsung.
What does that matter? If a chip isn't ready for a 3rd party to sell, it's not ready for Samsung to sell directly either.
Also, if the SGSII HD LTE already is using the 4412, why couldnt the Prime? There are hands on videos of the SGSII HD LTE with the 4412 in it.
I thought the SGS2 HD LTE isn't shipping until 2012. Prime is supposed to ship in... early November? I'd guess the videos are showing early engineering samples.
I would even take the Exynos 4410 clocked down to 1Ghz over any OMAP, even if clocked over 1.5ghz.
Definitely not me!
clockrate means nothing, just look at the early days of the AMD intel battles where AMD wiped the floor with intel even when they were clocked sometimes close to twice the clockrate.
Pentium 4 had a crummy design w/too long pipeline, the design ran way hot, it depended on code being compiled to take advantage of its finicky requirements, and I think it also depended for good performance on RAMBUS RAM that become extremely expensive at speeds fast enough to feed a high-clocked P4. But you're right that clock speeds won't translate 1:1 between different architectures.
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