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Smartphone with best processor
- Thread starter mplayervj
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Most of the flagship phones have the same processor. It's the other features that separate them.
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Keep in mind that any smartphone with the 'fastest' processor is a hardware-only aspect. It's not a guarantee that it's the 'best' either. Hardware specifications are of course something to take into account when you're shopping around, but you're much better off looking at phone from an overall point of view.
A really fast processor also requires more power and produces more heat, with the resulting issues being more power drains a battery faster and more heat, especially over continuous periods, reduces the actual longevity of the phone itself.
A really fast processor also requires more power and produces more heat, with the resulting issues being more power drains a battery faster and more heat, especially over continuous periods, reduces the actual longevity of the phone itself.
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A processor isn't even a single thing. There are clusters of processing cores, which may be homogeneous (all equal) or heterogeneous (some different designs from others), and how well the system firmware manages the allocation of threads to these is more important than the flat out speed in simplified tests. And then there is the GPU cluster, which is different again, and may be more important for some tasks. In short, there need not even be a single "most powerful", it will depend on the task.
And then the real question: what actually matters in real use? Because unless you are really sad you don't spend your time running synthetic benchmarks, and there are things they don't tell you. To pick one example where these things may matter, someone who likes high end games might want "the fastest" CPU and GPU. But if they plan on playing for more than a couple of minutes they should care about the thermal envelope, i.e. how long can you play before the phone gets hot and starts to throttle? And what sort of throttling is used (different strategies can result in more consistent or more jerky performance), and the same SoC (system on a chip, the correct terms for these processors) in different bodies will produce different results. And then there's the question of how the manufacturer has optimised their software.
In short, there isn't a simple, one size fits all answer to this.
And then the real question: what actually matters in real use? Because unless you are really sad you don't spend your time running synthetic benchmarks, and there are things they don't tell you. To pick one example where these things may matter, someone who likes high end games might want "the fastest" CPU and GPU. But if they plan on playing for more than a couple of minutes they should care about the thermal envelope, i.e. how long can you play before the phone gets hot and starts to throttle? And what sort of throttling is used (different strategies can result in more consistent or more jerky performance), and the same SoC (system on a chip, the correct terms for these processors) in different bodies will produce different results. And then there's the question of how the manufacturer has optimised their software.
In short, there isn't a simple, one size fits all answer to this.
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What Hadron said but I highly recommend Samsung phones/tablets they're really well built and you'll be pleased with it. Then you have the Apple fanbase that for some reason are willing to drop $1k on a yearly phone despite the one they already have works perfectly but you know, they want to show off they're fashionable and can afford it. lol
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