Multi core processors are better for the battery life in the long run?

[Mopetar]

intel vs AMD was also the exact same instruction set. and Intel's current CPU's outperform their 10 year old CPU's at half the GHz rating

same with ARM. all the CPU's support the same instruction set but they have their own architectures which shows up in the benchmarks

Once again, the argument was about using two cores as opposed to one, so this line or reasoning is utterly pointless.

Also, outside of Qualcomm, I believe that most of the SoC manufacturers just use reference design with little or no modification. In general these modifications don't result in major architecture overhauls or serious performance differences at similar clock speeds.

 

[alent1234]

apple modifies the samsung reference designs. probably why they get the same performance with half the GHz

 

[Mopetar]

apple modifies the samsung reference designs. probably why they get the same performance with half the GHz

Show me a benchmark where this is true. I have serious problems believing that this is the case.

 

[alent1234]

anandtech.com

even the mighty gnex running at like 1.5GHz is not that much faster than a 4S

 

[Mopetar]

anandtech.com

even the mighty gnex running at like 1.5GHz is not that much faster than a 4S

I really need a link to a specific benchmark. The ones where the iPhone generally shows 2x performance are in the graphics department, which has almost nothing to do with the ARM cores themselves.

Any comparison of an iOS device to an Android device also fails to consider software differences. Look at how much of a speed bump the iPhone 4 and 3GS received on several benchmarks when updating to iOS 5.

 

[soccerballtux]

I really need a link to a specific benchmark. The ones where the iPhone generally shows 2x performance are in the graphics department, which has almost nothing to do with the ARM cores themselves.

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