Snapdragon 808 vs 810

[zerogear]

https://www.androidpit.com/snapdragon-810-vs-808-is-8-cores-really-better-than-6

Some updated benchmark for 810, which seems to have fixed most issues.

Our tests suggest that the overheating problems that once plagued the Snapdragon 810 have been taken care of (at least on the HTC One M9), allowing the eight-core chipset to perform to its full potential.

 

[dawheat]

https://www.androidpit.com/snapdragon-810-vs-808-is-8-cores-really-better-than-6

Some updated benchmark for 810, which seems to have fixed most issues.

I think the results are presented in a way to reach that conclusion. Initial benches of the M9 were more competitive against the Exynos 7420 with GFXBench Manhattan offscreen getting 22.7fps and T-rex offscreen getting 49fps.

The "updated" M9 from you link scores 17fps and 35fps respectively - which are pretty much S805 scores while the S808 scores closer to the S801.

So sure, compared to S808, performance doesn't look too bad. But to make the S810 behave, it looks like they had to limit it to S805 level performance. Not exactly something to get excited about in 2015 when the Exynos 7420 has an even bigger performance gap now, much less the A9 SOC Apple will introduce this fall.

 

[soccerballtux]

interesting how apple continues to use ultra large/wide, low voltage designs

 

[Commodus]

interesting how apple continues to use ultra large/wide, low voltage designs

The difference, I'd say, is that Apple knows the phones it's designing for, and it's concerned about thinness and battery efficiency as much as performance. Samsung does have its own phones to think about, but it seems more concerned with performance than anything else (not surprising given its Bigger Numbers Are Better philosophy). And Qualcomm, of course, it's just a chip maker -- it can't design with specific phones in mind.

 

[lopri]

The article is over a month old.. Looks like a rehash of the story of the patch which reportedly "fixed" M9's overheating.

As to the S810/S808's misfortunes, I do not think A57 (or the number of it) is the main culprit. Rumor has it that its "uncore" portion as well as GPU are the source of the trouble. It makes sense since uncore is critical to both the memory and the GPU, and the GPU in S810 is much more potent than the one in S808.