Intel medfield z2460 1.6ghz vs cortex a9 1 ghz dual core

[nks]

Hi,
I want to purchase a new secondary phone.
I want to know the performance difference between the two above listed processor.
How is the performance difference.
1. Intel atom 1600mhz HT enabled with 1gb ddr2 ram
2. Arm cortex a9 dual core 1ghz with 512mb ram

Waiting for answers?

 

[NTMBK]

The Atom will probably perform better most of the time, but may have issues with compatibility.

 

[nks]

UnCompatibility to what???
Phn will be runing ics

 

[NTMBK]

UnCompatibility to what???
Phn will be runing ics

A Cortex A9 is an ARM based processor, like most phone chips, but Medfield is x86.

Certain Android programs (mostly games) have natively compiled binaries. Normally you would expect these to not work on a platform that is not the one they were made for, and they are generally made for ARM- but Intel has made a pretty excellent binary translation layer for these. This means that they should run on the Atom, but slower than you would expect.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5365/intels-medfield-atom-z2460-arrive-for-smartphones/5

 

[jhu]

I made a thread about this. In short, a cortex A9 @1.2 GHz is about as fast as an Atom @ 1.6 GHz as long as the binaries are properly optimized (in FP performance at least). On a clock-to-clock basis, the Cortex A9 is faster than Atom.