So if the Snapdragon 600 is similar to the S4 pro, and the S4 pro scores around say 2200 on Geekbench, what should we expect the Octa 8 to be benchmarked like? Just trying to get an idea of the power.
On that note, you notice how in many ways mobile OS's are becoming more demanding than their desktop counterpart? I played with a Tegra 3 on my friends's touchscreen laptop and it was super fast, yet a Tegra 3 running Android can be a bit laggy at times, like the HTC One X.
OK... let's see if I can wrap my brain around all of the info you provided.
The Samsung Exynos Octa-Core CPU really is nothing but a 4 + 4 design; a quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 Class CPU and a quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 Class CPU smashed together onto the same silicon.
Whereas the Snapdragon 600 CPU that's going to be featured in the US version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 utilizes a Krait 300 CPU which is an ARM Cortex-A15 Class CPU. Right?
So if I'm right so far, then tell me this. Since the ARM Cortex-A7 Class CPU is supposed to be a power-saving CPU that's used a majority of the time and the ARM Cortex-A15 Class CPU is only supposed to be used when the uber CPU power is needed, how is this going to effect battery life in the US version when the US version only has the higher-end ARM Cortex-A15 Class CPU?
I was wondering why the A7 consumes less power than the A15 in the octo-core? Does it have less transistors, and as a simpler design use less power? I thought that each iteration of CPU technology was more efficient than the last, or is that because they use more miniaturized silicon? And so fewer transistors on miniaturized silicon uses less power than the newer cpu design? Did I just answer my own question?
but... then is it only miniaturization that makes the newer cpu designs more efficient, and not improved memory controllers etc? I ask because it's heard said that newer processors can do more work for the same clock speed. But if that is the case, why not use newer processors at lower clock speeds rather than the older processors? Oh dear, I started off well...
So really this Octa - Core stuff is only marketing BS.
So really this Octa - Core stuff is only marketing BS.
Interesting. So the size keeps shrinking. I heard that eventually we'll reach a point where the chips can't be shrunk any further because the electrons will act erratically between transistors or something like that. How small would that be, are we close?
We're already operating by exploiting quantum effects.
We'll never fly, we'll never get to the moon.
Well that's what I mean. We'd have to move to quantum computing, which I don't believe will be backwards compatible with x86 or ARM.
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