Ice Cream Sandwich's BFF: Texas Instruments' OMAP4

[sciwizam]

Source: Android and Me

Looks like Google might have chosen TI's OMAP4 SoCs as the lead platform for Ice Cream Sandwich.

Summary of the OMAP4 platform (TI Link and Anandtech 4430 Droid 3 Link and Anandtech's 4470 Article)

OMAP4430: DualCore 1GHz + SGX540 @ 304MHz
OMAP4460: DualCore 1.5GHz + SGX540 @ 384MHz
OMAP4470: DualCore 1.8GHz + SGX544 @ 384MHz

The 4430 is already out on the Droid 3 and will power the Droid Bionic. Hopefully, ICS devices will have at least the 4460, as the 4470 will not be ready till next year.

 

[Aikouka]

I'm actually curious how the 544 compares to the 543. It can also be paired in dual and quad configurations like the 543.

 

[sciwizam]

From Brian's article on the 4470: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4413/...pecs-powervr-sgx544-18-ghz-dual-core-cortexa9

First, OMAP4470 moves from the PowerVR SGX540 present in OMAP4430 and OMAP4460 to a more powerful single core (MP1, if you will) PowerVR SGX544 GPU which offers 2.5x the performance of OMAP4430's SGX540.

If you recall from Anand's excellent iPad 2 GPU exploration, SGX543/544 features four USSE2 pipes each with a 4-wide vector ALU churning thorugh 4 MADs per clock. I'm reproducing his table below, but if you mentally replace SGX543 with SGX544 you get the same picture. As an aside, the difference between SGX543 and SGX544 is purely that full DirectX 9 compliance is offered in the latter, making it a possible shoe-in for future Windows 8 platforms.

 

[Soccerman06]

So that is whatll be in the Evo 4D? The 4470 that is.

 

[gsaldivar]

 

[Raduque]

Oh! Oh! Oh!

 

[Puddle Jumper]

Seems like a good move on Google part. I expected that either OMAP 4 or Exynos would be the ICS platform of choice.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I was hoping that Exynos would be the lead platform, but OMAP4 is fine.

 

[Compddd]

What happened to Nvidia?

 

[ImDonly1]

What happened to Nvidia?

Tegra 2 is old and slow now. Kal-el won't be out until early 2012, which is too late.

 

[dguy6789]

Tegra 2 is old and slow now.

Most benchmarks show the 1Ghz Tegra 2 having no problem matching a 1.2Ghz Exynos

 

[Puddle Jumper]

Most benchmarks show the 1Ghz Tegra 2 having no problem matching a 1.2Ghz Exynos

All of the benchmarks I have seen show Tegra 2 losing to OMAP 4, Exynos, as well as the new dual core snapdragons.

Several sites did publish pre release numbers for Exynos that showed it performing poorly but now that the Galaxy S2 has been released it is clear those results were inaccurate.

Tegra 2 also has pretty terrible hardware acceleration for HD video playback, even Hummingbird can beat it in that regard.

 

[dguy6789]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4502/tmobile-g2x-review-gingerbread-infused/6

In everything but the last two tests the Tegra 2 is right up there with the other chipsets.

 

[ImDonly1]

All of the benchmarks I have seen show Tegra 2 losing to OMAP 4, Exynos, as well as the new dual core snapdragons.

Several sites did publish pre release numbers for Exynos that showed it performing poorly but now that the Galaxy S2 has been released it is clear those results were inaccurate.

Tegra 2 also has pretty terrible hardware acceleration for HD video playback, even Hummingbird can beat it in that regard.

To add to this, Anandtech has a review that compares the LG Optimus 2X to a Galaxy S2. And the benchmarks are similar for both. But, they used a pre-release galaxy phone though, that was underclocked and had older firmware. If you look at xda-devs people ran the same benchmarks as anandtech on their final phone and the results were a lot different. Like the GL egypt benchmark, tegra2 got 28fps on anandtech, people on xda posted screenshots getting 55fps on the final samsung phone.

Edit:

Galaxy s2 from xda

and
http://www.anandtech.com/Show/Index...i-preliminary-performance-mali400-benchmarked

 

[A5]

So that is whatll be in the Evo 4D? The 4470 that is.

HTC rolls with Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips. My guess is one of the S4 chips they renamed today.

 

[tdawg]

As long as I get it on my Transformer, I'll be happy.

 

[s44]

This isn't much improvement over Exynos: we already know Exynos beats the 543 on GPU, and while higher CPU clock is nice, it's not going to change what you can and can't run.

I suspect this is only the lead phone platform, though. ICS on tablets needs quad.

 

[Fefster]

we already know Exynos beats the 543 on GPU

source?i'm not disputing you i'm just curious,i thought that exynos had similar gpu performance to the adreno 220.

 

[Bateluer]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4502/tmobile-g2x-review-gingerbread-infused/6

In everything but the last two tests the Tegra 2 is right up there with the other chipsets.

AT's review on 3.2 on the Transformer notes to nice performance gains on the Tegra 2. Updated Nvidia drivers.

 

[lothar]

Most benchmarks show the 1Ghz Tegra 2 having no problem matching a 1.2Ghz Exynos

I doubt that.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4502/tmobile-g2x-review-gingerbread-infused/6

In everything but the last two tests the Tegra 2 is right up there with the other chipsets.

Exynos benchmarks aren't in the link.

 

[lothar]

I had it in my head that they will select Exynos for ICS and OMAP5 for the next gen after that.

I've heard good things about OMAP5 and it's not even close to being tapped out yet...