Comments on: 1.5GHz Dual-core Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 Runs the Full Benchmark Gamut, Impressive Even Without Their Next-gen GPU

By: Striderevil

Striderevil — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:51:00 +0000

With the cortex A9 A5X? at 1 GHz, there is no comparison. It will be blown away period. Your comparing a next Gen A15 cortex dual core running at min 1.3+ Ghz.

By: Striderevil

Striderevil — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:47:00 +0000

Core on a GPU yes but a CPU definately makes a difference, also the architecture, A9 vs A15.

By: Striderevil

Striderevil — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:46:00 +0000

Exynos 5 even though it 32 nm HKMG runs at 2.0 Ghz and will bury the S4 since it comes with the Mali T604 GPU while the S4 is accompanied by an adreno 225 overclocked. We’ll probably have to wait and see in q4 or next year what the adreno 300 is capable of.

By: Striderevil

Striderevil — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:37:00 +0000

You have to understand that Apple to maximize sales and minimize overhead basically manufactures the new ipad from an ipad2 with an additional GPU. The GPU on other devices such as tegra 3 runs 12 cores and for long it has been known that GPU’s have many cores so much so that it becomes pointless to point out how many cores are present. Apple using out dated tech and smart marketing techniques introduced the ipad with “quad core like graphics”. That is why nVidia challenged their claim that their chip out does the tegra 3. The tegra 3 is a Cortex-A9 Quad core CPU at 1.3Ghz each with a 12 core GPU and an extra smaller CPU to run smaller tasks when in low power mode and to lessen the stress of small calcs on the main cores. The ipad runs a Cortex-A9 dual core 1 Ghz with a GPU containing 4 cores to compensate for the increased video bandwidth needed to run their higher end display. They basically banked on the media hype surrounding the device and the naivety of their customers to blindly adopt any junk they role out so long as the carrot (“Quad core like graphics”) dangling in front of them looks good. They know that the average tech savy person or tech genius would not buy their crap but rather stick with what they have or go android. This however is not their main base of customers. Also understand that their ios is natively run on their device, they don’t allow flash and all their apps are built to run natively on their device which gives the seeming blazing fast feel when in reality its not really. many are not happy with the Android which open sources its content so much so that a load of bloat ware forces the person to root only to be exposed to unsafe apps and irregular updates. The biggest mistake Google made was to let their software customizable to the point where the manufacturer and then the service provider muddle it up. A lot of people are waiting for a Win mobile phone that supports the latest and not outdated hardware. At least then perhaps maybe natively non iOS devices can truly be embraced without all the accompanying bloatware.

By: Pegi18

Pegi18 — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 04:12:00 +0000

Agreed, i believe a single core will not be able to run more apps as opposed to multi-cores even if it performs better in single-thread only.

By: Mojus

Mojus — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 04:10:00 +0000

Simply because Apple owns the iOS. Android is by Google, the manufacturer can only make the phone and provide a modified interface. Understand that?

By: Serena D

Serena D — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:59:00 +0000

Would like to see a list of coming phones to the US that carry this chip- either rumored or confirmed list would do .

By: JaeLim

JaeLim — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:36:00 +0000

Well that could’ve been true but since GS3 was delayed, who knows. I’m crossing my fingers for GS3 to have 5250.

By: jony

jony — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:13:00 +0000

But the thing is that the galaxy s III will probably have this exynos 4412 so it will be interesting to see how samsung will pull it off to outrun the dual core krait.

By: TC Infantino

TC Infantino — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:48:00 +0000

I am very interested in where to find those kernels. I have a Rezound and love tweeking this mother to the hilt. Please post links if you have them. Thanks in advance.

By: staticx57

staticx57 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:51:00 +0000

Who cares if it’s fair. There are kernels out there for the Rezound that both overclock the CPU and the GPU that would show any OMAP4 CPU the door.

By: Diablo81588

Diablo81588 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:33:00 +0000

I wouldn’t really call that fair comparing a developer phone to a retail product. They probably have next to nothing running and can tweak the hell out of that thing to show off its performance. I think if they’re gonna compare phones they should all be retail products. Bloatware and all.

By: staticx57

staticx57 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:21:00 +0000

And look at the MDP MSM8660. That has the exact same CPU and GPU as the Rezound and tell me that is not just an HTC software issue. In fact read the source link, that is the only benchmark suite where the Rezound benches poorly.

By: snowblind64

snowblind64 — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:26:00 +0000

You have to take screen resolution into account. The Rezound is the phone that really loses. Same 720p screen resolution as the Nexus but way lower score.

By: Russell Dubov

Russell Dubov — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:19:00 +0000

basically, there is an efficiency loss when ever you have celular radios not on the main chip, in this case with lte not yet integrated in the SOC