Snapdragon S4 Embarasses compettion

[SubZero.it]

Owning Tegra 3, what a win in battery life having a dual core that beats four.
Though I'll skip, O2X with Android 4 works good for the moment
More:http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/26...es-competition
http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc...se-date-3.html

[kuroikenshi]

yeah, I am happy with OMAP5 also coming out next year,

do you have any references of Snapdragon's S4 architecture?

[Unoid]

Anandtech did a qualcomm writeup on the S4 eng sample device.

Problem with tegra 3 vs krait is that what apps use 4 cores vs 1/2.
No doubt IPC of krait is 1.5-1.8 times better than the A9's But 4 A9's should be close to two Kraits. Cinebench for android? lol

[SubZero.it]

yeah, I am happy with OMAP5 also coming out next year,

do you have any references of Snapdragon's S4 architecture?

This is the article:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4940/q...t-architecture

[Russian]

While this is impressive, you also have to remember that Vellamo is a Qualcomm made benchmark...

Snapdragon S4 beats Huawei Ascend XL... in 720P testing.

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news...surprised.aspx

[BrowncoatGR]

I think for a proper understanding of how good the S4 is we need to wait a bit for the other OEMs to release their A15 designs. Also the leading platform in the mobile market seems to change rather quickly atm as there is quite a bit of competition and innovation. BTW Qualcomm's Adreno GPUs are the evolution of AMD's mobile GPUs that they bought a couple of years ago

[Russian]

I think for a proper understanding of how good the S4 is we need to wait a bit for the other OEMs to release their A15 designs. Also the leading platform in the mobile market seems to change rather quickly atm as there is quite a bit of competition and innovation. BTW Qualcomm's Adreno GPUs are the evolution of AMD's mobile GPUs that they bought a couple of years ago

Look how many former AMD people they have now

[EniGmA1987]

Embarrasses competition? lol So the latest from Qualcomm is better than older CPUs. Thats some big news there... Lets see what happens once all the new designs hit the street in the coming months and see who wins. I dont have much hope for the new Snapdragon.

[SubZero.it]

Embarrasses competition? lol So the latest from Qualcomm is better than older CPUs. Thats some big news there... Lets see what happens once all the new designs hit the street in the coming months and see who wins. I dont have much hope for the new Snapdragon.

Tegra 3 old?

[-=DVS=-]

Don't know why everyone is raving about S4 its fast but not earth shattering they only benchmarked vellamo and quadrant , in this review http://vr-zone.com/articles/lg-s-teg...ant/14898.html looking at quadrant individual scores , CPU and GPU scores are better on tegra3. Heck even now aging sgs2 can score 5000+ range in quadrant with latest OS and kernel.

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[mAJORD]

Qualcomm vs ARM , The new AMD vs Intel

[zanzabar]

Look how many former AMD people they have now

i think that you mean ATI people, the team stayed the same until amd sold it, and they were never merged or grouped with an amd team.

Tegra 3 old?

tegra3 is using the same cores as tegra2 for the cpu, so it is old. it did add things like the touch sensor chipset on the die to reduce lag and a 5th core that takes care of standby when the phone is in sleep mode, but the core design is old

Qualcomm vs ARM , The new AMD vs Intel

qualcomm is more like intel, they make the reference core and radio, and they reject radio compatibility if you do not follow their interface design, nvidia is more like via, and samsung/ti are more like amd since they have strong floating point and gpu (they work together and use powervr gpu cores)

[mattkosem]

I'm more interested in antutu scores.

[crash5s]

Not shocked it beats tegra3, how much tablet is 4 cores? As a tegra3 tablet user, not much! Not to mention the mess that is android market and a ton of stuff just not working with tegra3 devices.

[Cold Fussion]

The snapdragons with the 3xx graphics chips coming later this year will be interesting.

[BrowncoatGR]

Qualcomm vs ARM , The new AMD vs Intel

Qualcomm uses ARM cpu cores like all other major mobile SoC OEMs.

[JaD]

No they don't. Qualcomm creates its own ARM-compatible designs.

[Caparroz]

No they don't. Qualcomm creates its own ARM-compatible designs.

I think what BrowncoatGR meant is that Qualcomm, like others, designs ARM based SoCs, no more, no less.

I have a Galaxy S2 and this thing is a beast! I'll wait for the next version of Exynos.

[JaD]

Actually he specifically implied cores in Qualcomm CPUs are the same as all other SoC OEMs. That's absolutely not the case: pretty much like AMD vs Intel for x86 - the quoted comparison he wanted to disprove -Qualcomm and ARM produce entirely different CPUs for the same mArchitecture.

[SubZero.it]

tegra3 is using the same cores as tegra2 for the cpu, so it is old. it did add things like the touch sensor chipset on the die to reduce lag and a 5th core that takes care of standby when the phone is in sleep mode, but the core design is old

Yes I know the cores design is old, but they doubled in number and give it a bit more frequency.

[Aberration]

Actually he specifically implied cores in Qualcomm CPUs are the same as all other SoC OEMs. That's absolutely not the case: pretty much like AMD vs Intel for x86 - the quoted comparison he wanted to disprove -Qualcomm and ARM produce entirely different CPUs for the same mArchitecture.

More accurately he was pointing out there can not be a Qualcomm versus ARM. That is like saying AMD versus x86.

[mAJORD]

More accurately he was pointing out there can not be a Qualcomm versus ARM. That is like saying AMD versus x86.

No its not.

Qualcomm designs their own ARM compatible Cores.

[Cold Fussion]

More accurately he was pointing out there can not be a Qualcomm versus ARM. That is like saying AMD versus x86.

ARM design ARM cores.

[Kallenator]

Please people, check your facts.

The original Snapdragon CPU, dubbed Scorpion,[1] is Qualcomm's own design. It has many features similar to those of the ARM Cortex-A8 core and it is based on the ARM v7 instruction set
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_(processor)

[BrowncoatGR]

ARM design ARM cores.

Please people, check your facts.

The original Snapdragon CPU, dubbed Scorpion,[1] is Qualcomm's own design. It has many features similar to those of the ARM Cortex-A8 core and it is based on the ARM v7 instruction set
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_(processor)

Like Aberration said Snapdragon is an implementation of the ARMv7 instruction set and therefore an ARM processor in the same way Bulldozer and Sandy Bridge are both x86 processors.