Which smartphone/tablet owns the fastest processor?
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Of course, with the kind of pacing we enjoy in this industry, the fastest processor today is often seen as slow tomorrow, but still, it's always interesting to know who's currently on top of the game.
There are two main factors in determining the speed of a processor - its clock rate and number of cores. Since we've come to the conclusion that increasing the core count brings more speed boost than simply upping the frequency a bit, we'll be looking for the CPU which has the most cores, and highest clock speed. Please keep in mind that the theoretical speed of a processor does not translate into overall speed of the device that uses it. There have been many examples where a smartphone or tablet with a slower processor performs way better than a higher-spec'd competitor. With that out of the way, let the CPU party begin!
Which smartphone/tablet owns the fastest processor?
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5. Ray.S posted on 12 3
Sorry, the Nexus 7 didn't qualify in the Top 3, as it "only" has a quad-core 1.3 GHz CPU.
46. nnaatthhaannx2 posted on 1 4
The S4 used on the One X usually out preforms the GS3 and other phones using it, but I still would say the GS3 is better than the ONEX
4. TheLibertine posted on 3 13
Isn't the Exynos Raster than Tegra 3 despite slightly lower clock speed?
And please make such a comparison with graphics performance - with the iPhone and iPad dominating.
6. Ray.S posted on 10 4
It might very well be, but those things are hard to measure, so in this competition here we're just looking at the number of cores and clock rates of the processors.
56. mohdr posted on 0 0
ray ray ray come on !!! this is not fair and you know it.
what if i smoked your 7.2 L challenger by my 5.5 L E63 amg.
this does not mean your bigger engine is better.
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31. Non_Sequitur posted on 6 0
The T3 smoked the A5X in most benchmarks. Besides, I'd rather play on a tablet with a widescreen display than a boxier tablet. The iPad isn't bad though for iOS fans, I'll give you that. I've played with my friend's iPad 2. It's pretty nice. :)
8. PhoneArenaUser posted on 3 0
But Samsung Galaxy S III, HTC One X and LG Optimus 4X HD use the same ARM's Cortex-A9 CPU architecture the performance difference becomes only because different SoC's can squeeze different amount of performance from the same CPU.
11. Ray.S posted on 11 0
This venerable athlete was once on top of its game, but has been retired for quite some time now.
18. bobfreking55 posted on 7 1
i think it could beat all those! it's even holds more hertz than the hammer of thor! lol
10. tedkord posted on 22 4
Actually, your analysis and reasoning are off. Simply increasing MHz or cores does not necessarily mean increased speed. There are to many factors to take into account. That's why in PC'S, a slower clocked quad core Intel Dandy Bridge is faster than a six core AMD at a higher frequency.
Internally, you can have the width and length of the pipeline in bits, cache size and speed, the speed of the bus, the number of calculations per clock cycle, etc...externally, the speed of the ram, how many background processes the system is also running, etc...
Now, if you're talking about processors all from the exact same family, then you can make some generalizations like in the article. If you have two Intel Sandy Bridges with the same number of cores, equal cache, etc...the more MHz, the faster.
I know this sounds nitpicky, but these sorts of misconceptions kept people from buying AMD Athlons back when they were spanking Pentiums with 20% higher clocks just because the Athlon said 1GHz, and the Pentium said 1.3GHz. (That plus the brand name. Lots of parallels to smartphones today in that analysis) People were paying more to get less. (More parallels)
57. roscuthiii posted on 0 0
"Goddamned incorrect"? Heh... I think even your autocorrect got autocorrected. ;-p
