Comments on: Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Benchmarking Part 1

By: Moosa Mahsoom

Moosa Mahsoom — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:10:00 +0000

the tegra 3 in the one x vs 4x are much more powerful than tegra 3 as they have better silicon. Transformer prime is weaker than one x and 4x actually.

For krait to beat tegra 3 , a krait core should be twice as powerful as an A9 and should have higher clock speed.

By: wuzelwazel

wuzelwazel — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:10:00 +0000

While the number of pixels is the same between the two theoretical displays you mentioned I have to suspect that the size of a device (and its backlight) will have an impact on thermals. What that impact is I couldn’t say. However, it seems obvious to me that if the goal is an apples to apples comparison of SoCs then keeping other elements constant would give a more accurate picture.

By: leozno1

leozno1 — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:28:00 +0000

So what you’re saying is that a 10 inch screen with a 1280 x 800 resolution requires more processing power than a 5 inch screen running at the same resolution of 1280 x 800. Because I don’t think there should be a difference.

Although I definitely agree about taking some hardware and comparing it to something a year older. But it has been said that Qualcomm’s Krait core could potentially be equal to or even more powerful than the Cortex A15 at the same clock speeds.

But if a dual core Krait with Adreno 225 is benchmarking faster than Tegra 3, then in order for Nvidia to be able to compete with OMAP 5, Exynos 5xxx and Quad Core Krait with Adreno 320, they will definitely need to launch Tegra 4 very soon!

By: Ahmed Elkady

Ahmed Elkady — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:48:00 +0000

my prime get 4300, but this is still crazy.

By: Westernnate

Westernnate — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:59:00 +0000

Well, lets not get ahead of ourselves. You haven’t seen any of these parts in a device, and a year down the road we could have a tegra 3+ at quad 15s and 28 nm as well. It is a tight race but saying next falls tech will wipe the floor with something that released last December should be obvious.

The question is will it keep up with the tech leading it currently?

Oh, and can we get some real numbers from production phones to compare?

Lastly, resolution matters more than screen real estate, but real estate has some bearing. Have more to drive on a bigger screen.

By: leozno1

leozno1 — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000

Well the difference in resolution does indeed make a difference, but the screen size shouldn’t.
But you indeed are correct but then again this is not even close to what Krait is capable of. Qualcomm will be releasing the S4 with the next generation Adreno 320 GPU later this year and by the end of the year they will be finalizing their Quad Core Krait GPU. That thing will wipe the floor with Tegra 3.

By: Andy Maude

Andy Maude — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:26:00 +0000

lets wait until the tests are done on a real device with all its phone carrier bloatware and other software rather then a test device. We will see if it still acheives the 5,000+ scores. Note my Asus prime acheives around 3,700 to 3,900 using quadrant so the gap is actually less than <2,000 not as states 3,300.

By: Westernnate

Westernnate — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:45:00 +0000

Any concern that a krait cell phone with lower resolution and less than half the real estate of a tegra tablet would skew the numbers in kraits favor? Any gamer knows that a bigger screen and higher resolution taxes your system exponentially.

Not trying to make excuses for nvidia, their chip is now tech, while krait won’t be out forms quarter at least. No excuses needed. But wouldn’t it make sense to benchmark a phone against a phone?