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What can the Hummingbird graphics capabilities do that the Snapdragon can't? I have an Evo, but my 2nd line is up for renewal soon. I could get another EVO for that person, or an Epic, and switch the lines. I'm really happy w/ my evo, I have avalaunch V9 running on it and it does everything I need it to do.
So far, I don't feel like the graphics processing has limited any performance. I have been able to play a few roms without a problem, and a few android games as well.
So in what way does the Hummingbird really make a difference besides performance tests like Quadrant?
Are you a burned spy?
If you don't notice anything wrong with the Snapdragon GPU, then the Evo is probably fine for you. It depends on if you want the keyboard or not.
The Epic also has S-AMOLED which is gorgeous, so it'd be best to see them both side-by-side to make your decision.
Also, Snapdragon has much better performance application wise because it's CPU core is second to none, but the opposite is true for the Hummingbird, it does have a solid CPU core, but it isn't as good as the Snapdragon, however minus the as-yet-unreleased Tegra 2 chips, the Hummingbird has the best mobile GPU on the market.
Its a decision thats really up to you, if you want the keyboard, go Epic, if you can live without it, and the Evo GPU doesn't affect you, then it's probably a good bet due to the better camera & the bigger screen.
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do you have links to the whitepapers for the cpus or even better yet the phones? Id be very interested in just reading about the processors and their respective gpu's
thanks
Not to mention that it isn't that the evo's gpu is THAT much worse than the gpu is the samsung galaxy, its just that the galaxy's gpu is in the powervr sgx family of GPUs that are in the iphone....so of course games are going to be optimized to that gpu more than the andreno gpu that is in the snapdragon (at least initially).
The Hummingbird processor is virtually the same as the iphone 4 processor minus apple's mods. snapdragon is fast but doesn't have the graphics capabilities that humming bird has. I for one will not be getting the evo or the epic. i will wait for the first carrier to release a dual core phone. Either way you look at it you have an evo now, get a epic and if you don't like it get another evo b4 your thirty days are up.
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@Geniusdog254
do you have links to the whitepapers for the cpus or even better yet the phones? Id be very interested in just reading about the processors and their respective gpu's
thanks
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Unfortunately no. I've looked and looked and looked for ANY real Qualcomm docs on the QSD (Snapdragon) chips and none have been leaked yet. If there had been I woulda been able to overclock the GPU by now
I haven't done any looking for Hummingbird docs but I really really doubt that they're out yet either.
If you find any for either one, give me a shout with a PM here, or Twitter me (@geniusdog254), or email me ([email protected])
just sent them an email requesting it for my college final project. complete BS, but perhaps it'll hook a sucker and ill get some real technical information.
Hi
Noob here. Was just wondering what the general consensus was on the 'old' GPU that the Galaxy Nexus will be supplied with. It isn't as powerful as say, the Galaxy S2 or the iPhone4s, but will this have an overall effect on how the phone performs in day to day use? Will it only effect the high end games that are currently available? I'm seriously tempted by this phone - mainly due to the lovely looking ICS but I'm concerned I may regret purchasing if there are serious issues with the GPU.
Cheers.
I am presuming the GPU is clocked all the way up to 384Mhz like the chip's specification says, if not then curses to Google.
TBH I believe it'll be fine, although it is an old GPU it is still quite a powerful one and can handle almost every game fine. Tegra 2 is generally a weaker GPU than SGX540 @ 200 and can still manage games just fine at 1280 x 800, I don't see why the SGX540 @ 384 can't do that. Although we'll never know for sure until we get the phone.
I'll quote myself from the other thread here:
Here's a lovely anecdote: I use an Eyefinity (three-monitor) setup on my gaming rig. It's a general rule of thumb that (compared to a single 1080p monitor) adding an additional 1080p monitor will reduce your performance by about 30%. A third 1080p monitor will reduce your performance to about 50% that of a single-screen setup.
Now consider, the Nexus Prime has about 2.4 times the number of pixels as the Nexus S. If the same formula as a desktop GPU holds true for mobiles, we could expect about a 40% loss in 3D performance. Now the GPU has been clocked up about 92%. It's throughput is now approaching double that of the Galaxy S, when it needed only make up a 40% defecit. Of course if you consider diminishing returns from clockspeed scaling, the [email protected] should perform at 720p about as well as it did at 200MHz and 480p. /shrug
The usual disclaimer: this was all conjecture on my part.
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Like I said, that's just my theory, and it's got no real grounding (since I haven't used the new Nexus yet.)
Hope you guys are right, of course I'm not going to hold you to it, I just would like to have seen fresh architecture.
If we get a kernel, or I should say when we get a kernel that allows overclocking, does that only OC the CPU cores or will it OC the GPU even more?
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And while you guys are skeptical of a gpu more powerful than the Geforce on the Tegra 2, which has its own games zone dedicated to it's well-known-to-be-awesome-or-atleast-marketed-well performance, I'm rocking an Adreno 200 powering a thoroughly shattered-yet-still-working-perfectly 4.3" WVGA standard LCD display. That powervr is probably more powerful than my Geforce3 ti 200 on my desktop.
I need a refresh.
Andreno200 < Adreno205 < [email protected] < [email protected] < or = Adreno 220
The Andreno 205 is 2X the 200, but the SGX is around 1.5X Adreno205, 220 is 2X Andreno205...So [email protected] is similar to Andreno 220 at same res, but slower at 720P?
I think it's stupid that people think it's weak because:
* It isn't brand new
* They've never seen it clocked like it is and/or matched with the OMAP processor it's matched with.
* Have never played a game optimized for it
* Can't name a game/movie/program that will run on something else but not the combination mentioned above
* Assume that superficial benchmark results mean much in real world applications
The entire conversation is like talking about a way to make your race car's top speed go from 210mph to 230mph on a track that is designed to make it impossible to go faster than 175mph.
For the last time, this is NOT the same GPU that is in the SGS.
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I am presuming the GPU is clocked all the way up to 384Mhz like the chip's specification says, if not then curses to Google.
TBH I believe it'll be fine, although it is an old GPU it is still quite a powerful one and can handle almost every game fine. Tegra 2 is generally a weaker GPU than SGX540 @ 200 and can still manage games just fine at 1280 x 800, I don't see why the SGX540 @ 384 can't do that. Although we'll never know for sure until we get the phone.
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You got it wrong there dude, SGX 540 @304 Mhz is equal or +1 to 2 % faster then the Geforce ULP GPU @800x480( Note that this can be because of the Dual channel memory the 4430 soc uses (optimus 3d)). Also the ULP Geforce does not work the same way as the SGX. Geforce ULP has the tendency to not get major performance hits when resolution gets bigger hence why all tablets use Tegra 2(Got a source for this however cant find it right now), it was Nvidias plan all along to grab the Tablet market.
I hope the extra Mhz helps the sgx 540 to perform well on the galaxy nexus when it comes to Games and so on. If it doesn't there are tricks to bypass things and get good performance in gaming however it up to google/samsung to implement them
I'm looking forward to try the phone myself when it hits the stores, and hope it'll be ok...
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You got it wrong there dude, SGX 540 @304 Mhz is equal or +1 to 2 % faster then the Geforce ULP GPU @800x480( Note that this can be because of the Dual channel memory the 4430 soc uses (optimus 3d)). Also the ULP Geforce does not work the same way as the SGX. Geforce ULP has the tendency to not get major performance hits when resolution gets bigger hence why all tablets use Tegra 2(Got a source for this however cant find it right now), it was Nvidias plan all along to grab the Tablet market.
I hope the extra Mhz helps the sgx 540 to perform well on the galaxy nexus when it comes to Games and so on. If it doesn't there are tricks to bypass things and get good performance in gaming however it up to google/samsung to implement them
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That might be the case but I saw SGX540 outperforming tegra at 720p, so even then at a tablet resolution the SGX540 doesn't fail to perform. Regardless, the gpu in galaxy nexus is nothing short of high end and should perform fine.
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...and Tegra isn't that great either!
Regardless of whether the phone is fast or not, there is the overwhelming feeling that it could have been better. I think most people wanted a 543MP2 or if it were possible, the 543MP4+ (it isn't) on th Vita.
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There is no soc out yet apart from the A5 with the 543mp2, the lead time on a soc is huge, i mean they were designing the OMAP 4460 back in 2009 or earlier (first mentions in white papers of the 4460 where in Feb 2009) but i am sure they where working on it before then.
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There is no soc out yet apart from the A5 with the 543mp2, the lead time on a soc is huge, i mean they were designing the OMAP 4460 back in 2009 or earlier (first mentions in white papers of the 4460 where in Feb 2009) but i am sure they where working on it before then.
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True. We know that the new A15s have been in development since at least 2009.
The Omap 5430 has a 544MPx; we don't know how many cores.
I suppose there was no alternative except the Exynos?
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True. We know that the new A15s have been in development since at least 2009.
The Omap 5430 has a 544MPx; we don't know how many cores.
I suppose there as no alternative except the Exynos?
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Well there is Exynos, OMAP or snapdragon for current generation soc's.
OMAP and exynos are S9 cores. Snapdragon is kinda A8 with extra SIMD performance.
That's generally why snapdragon gets out performed clock for clock by A9+neon designs (that's why a 1.5ghz snapdragon eg sensation xl gets or tmob USA sgs2 is out performed by a 1.2ghz exynos.
I am more happy with OMAP than snapdragon that's for sure.
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A lot of people seem to bemoaning the fact that this phone doesn't have a 1.5Ghz Exynos 4212 or even the 4210. The big worry is that the chip may not run well at 1280x720, hence the "lag" we saw in the leak videos.
There is disagreement on if the Mali 400 or the SGX 540 is better (at this clock anyways), but there seems to be a consensus that the Exynos is a faster CPU than the OMAP 4. I suppose that a few were hoping for a ARM Cortex A15 with a 2-core SGX 554. No such a SOC currently exists sadly.
I am also hopeful that there have been some software optimizations in Ice Cream that could improve performance.
Part of me wonders if Google should do what Apple did - get its own semiconductor design department and outsource the actual fab. It seems to be offering Apple a competitive advantage of sorts.
my thoughts are that i don't care.
eric b
veyka said:
Well there is Exynos, OMAP or snapdragon for current generation soc's.
OMAP and exynos are S9 cores. Snapdragon is kinda A8 with extra SIMD performance.
That's generally why snapdragon gets out performed clock for clock by A9+neon designs (that's why a 1.5ghz snapdragon eg sensation xl gets or tmob USA sgs2 is out performed by a 1.2ghz exynos.
I am more happy with OMAP than snapdragon that's for sure.
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Agreed. Better Omap 4 than Scorpion.
Apparently there are also a few people who were hoping for a Tegra 3. It might have been doable (and I stress the might), as the new Asus Transformer Prime is rumoured to carry Kal El.
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TBH the GPU and CPU are more than capable off handling the gui, its not like they are pulling out a fully 3D gui, even if the resolution is bumped the hardware should still be able handle it without breaking a sweat. It's only the games where the doubt arises.
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Agreed. Better Omap 4 than Scorpion.
Apparently there are also a few people who were hoping for a Tegra 3. It might have been doable (and I stress the might), as the new Asus Transformer Prime is rumoured to carry Kal El.
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I am not sure if kal el is ready yet, i dont think the transformer prime is due till q1 2012, and I'm sure if the smartphone Tegra 3 is ready as well.
And Tegra 2 doesn't even have neon!
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There have been a lot of people who have been doing comparisons of various phones (particularly the Galaxy S2) to the Galaxy Nexus. I recalled during the Samsung/Google event them saying they chose to use an industry leading hardware inside the phone, so I decided to look into this a little further. As I'm sure you're well aware, the first thing people tend to point at are benchmarks. The gpu benchmarks are particularly what have come under fire when people make their comparisons. Though the mali 400 does bench out higher than the SGX540 the higher performance on the mali isn't a tangible benefit as "end device applications have not yet caught up with the highest graphics performance delivered by these" (http://armdevices.net/2011/10/26/interview-with-the-texas-instruments-omap4-team/). In other words that's like having a road with a 300mph speed limit but the cars are only able to achieve 120mph. Driving on the road with the 300mph speed limit won't get you there any faster than driving on a road with a 200mph speed limit if the speed of the car is the same.
As for processors, the processors as they are now are roughly on par with each other with them both being 45nm A9's clocked at 1.2. The difference between them is that the exynos 4210 is clocked at it's true clock speed at 1.2, whereas the omap 4460 is actually underclocked to 1.2 and has a true clock speed of 1.5. Thus meaning the processor has more speed potential than that of the exynos.
One thing that does stand out as an advantage of the omap 4460 over some of the competition is it's memory bus bandwidth. For those that don't know, in simple terms, it's how fast information can be read from and stored to memory by the processor. In other words, you can have the fastest processor in the world but if you don't have enough memory bandwidth to accommodate the amount of information that needs to be transferred then that speed won't matter because it will be bottlenecked. For example, let's say you have a car that can reach 200mph and you want to drive that car at full speed. However the street you're driving on can only handle 20 cars at a time, and you're the 21st car, well in this case you're going to be stuck in traffic. Sure you have the raw potential of doing 200mph, but you won't ever get close to that because of traffic congestion. The same concept applies when we're talking about memory bandwidth. That being said, the memory bandwidth on the omap 4460 is 6.4GB/s, the exynos 4210 is 6.4GB/s, the iphone 4s is 6.4GB/s, and the Tegra 2 is 2.5 GB/s. Add all of this with the fact that the TI processor is underclocked to 1.2ghz (for power savings) as opposed to running at full strength and full power (ie. Galaxy S2), you have what is in my opinion the superior processor. Personally, I'd rather have an underclocked processor that delivers the same or better performance and saves me power, than to have a gpu that has excessive power that I can't even make use of. It's kind of like saying you have a rocket launcher for self defense, sure the rocket launcher is powerful but it isn't something you can really make use of. In closing I think AnandTech said it best when they said "Until Tegra 3 and Krait show up, the CPU side of the 4460 is as good as it gets."
Sources:
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/productInfo.do?fmly_id=844&partnum=Exynos 4210
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2911
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&...mA2j6n&sig=AHIEtbTE8LvpHXPUcE4w_wGU5apdbGD0Eg
http://armdevices.net/2011/10/26/interview-with-the-texas-instruments-omap4-team/
https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/2FXDCz8x93s
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Why-...Galaxy-Nexus-Android-ICS-poster-child_id23089
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5133/galaxy-nexus-ice-cream-sandwich-initial-performance
Nice post!
Gave me some more insight in the decision for the Omap processor and makes me feel i made a real good decision ordering the GN.
Maybe some paragraphs in your text would be nice, to make it easier to read.
Kind regards.
Thanks, now I feel even better for chosing my Nexus....
wow that was very informative. all that confusion the past couple of months about why the g-nex would be using the TI OMAP 4460 instead of, what was believed to be more powerful processors like the Exynos. but this post really cleared that up for me.
thanks!
Thanks !! Nice and simple.
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Anyway, hate to break it to you, but the processors in Galaxy Nexus are 4460, but they're probably binned 1.5ghz processors i.e. processors that couldn't run at the full 1.5ghz
https://twitter.com/#!/coolbho3k/status/140218721774997504
https://twitter.com/#!/coolbho3k/status/140214089183010819
Oh, and this: https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts
Galaxy Nexus runs at significantly higher res than Galaxy S II, and has to push many many more pixels...
Rawat said:
Woah, huge walloftext.jpg
Anyway, hate to break it to you, but the processors in Galaxy Nexus are 4460, but they're probably binned 1.5ghz processors i.e. processors that couldn't run at the full 1.5ghz
https://twitter.com/#!/coolbho3k/status/140218721774997504
https://twitter.com/#!/coolbho3k/status/140214089183010819
Oh, and this: https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts
Galaxy Nexus runs at significantly higher res than Galaxy S II, and has to push many many more pixels...
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I think you're missing my point. Yes the full speed potential of the 4460 chip is 1.5ghz, but it is clocked at 1.2ghz. Whether or not you will be able to clock the chip back up to 1.5 isn't what I'm getting at. The point is it has comparable processing power at a lower clock speed that it is spec'ed at. Meaning it can give comparable processing power as it's competitors but use less power, which obviously is a good thing. As for your last statement, you do realize that person you linked to is one of the sources I cited . The fact that so many more pixels have to be pushed is exactly why having more memory bandwidth is so important. Had they gone with an exynos processor clocked at 1.2 instead, there's a chance the user experience may have suffered. Think about this, the galaxy not has the exynos, but they had to clock it to 1.5 (instead of the 1.2) AND give it a 2500mah battery so that it can get decent battery life. Obviously they wouldn't be able to fit a battery of that capacity (or even close to it) in the galaxy nexus, so if they put a exynos in the nexus clocked that high, there would be a serious battery problem...and if they put a 1.2 in there with the lower memory bandwidth, there could also be a potential for user experience issues. The overall point that I'm making is that the 4460 is actually a very good chip due to the high memory bandwidth and the fact that it's more power efficient.
"More power efficient"
More power efficient than what? Exynos is pretty power efficient itself, and Note doesn't have such a large battery to counter the clock speed of Exynos, it's because it's a huge fricking phone, and they can fit it inside.
OMAP4460 is rather decidedly the 3rd best smartphone SoC in the market. A5 and Exynos are ahead (well, not CPU on a5, but GPU more than makes up for it) but it's better than Tegra2, and snapdragon. At least that's something, eh?
Awsome! Well explained, thank you, make sticky please!
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"More power efficient"
More power efficient than what? Exynos is pretty power efficient itself, and Note doesn't have such a large battery to counter the clock speed of Exynos, it's because it's a huge fricking phone, and they can fit it inside.
OMAP4460 is rather decidedly the 3rd best smartphone SoC in the market. A5 and Exynos are ahead (well, not CPU on a5, but GPU more than makes up for it) but it's better than Tegra2, and snapdragon. At least that's something, eh?
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I will keep my response to you brief, since it's obvious you didn't read what I posted (judging from the fact that you posted link to the same person that I already had a link to in my sources). That being said, explain why the Exynos and the A5 are ahead. Instead of making a generalized please use some facts to support what you state. If that is what you think, I'd love to read why.
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Anyway, hate to break it to you, but the processors in Galaxy Nexus are 4460, but they're probably binned 1.5ghz processors i.e. processors that couldn't run at the full 1.5ghz
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Hate to tell you this, but if it is indeed a 4460, these are 1.5 GHz parts. Plain and simple, if they weren't they would have a wildly different part number (think of Intel CPU's...the new I7 39xx series are binned Xeon parts...) than the one shown in the pictures or on the IC's themselves. Why? To put it bluntly, false advertisement. Every single thing online states 1.5 GHz for the part. No literature (that I can find) says anything less than that. And yes, I know a few things have the wording 'up to', but that doesn't change the fact that it's still a 1.5 GHz part. It just isn't rated for higher than 1.5 GHz. It's similar to how Apple clocks the A5 down to 800 MHz for the Iphone 4S. Get some power savings at the price of a small bit of performance. Does this mean that the A5's in the Iphone 4s can't do 1 GHz? Probably not.
Got proof of the accused binning? Then maybe I'll start considering that belief. But until I see 'real' proof, I highly doubt that TI is selling binned parts that can't make 1.5 GHz. That would kind of be pointless to say the 4460 is a 1.5 GHz part, but sell it with a max of 1.2 GHz without atleast changing the part number in some way (ie 4450 for instance).
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I think you're missing my point. Yes the full speed potential of the 4460 chip is 1.5ghz, but it is clocked at 1.2ghz. Whether or not you will be able to clock the chip back up to 1.5 isn't what I'm getting at. The point is it has comparable processing power at a lower clock speed that it is spec'ed at. Meaning it can give comparable processing power as it's competitors but use less power, which obviously is a good thing.
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This is faulty reasoning. You are claiming that because the OMAP4460 in the GN is underclocked from 1.5GHz to 1.2GHz, it must consume less power than a Exynos 4210 clocked at 1.2GHz. This is only true if the OMAP4460 at 1.5GHz consumes the same amount of power as the Exynos 4210 at 1.2GHz. But we have no evidence that this is the case. The OMAP4460 at 1.5GHz might simply have a higher thermal envelope than the Exynos 4210 at 1.2GHz and is able to draw more power. Thus the OMAP4460 at 1.2GHz might consume power comparable to the Exynos 4210.
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Hate to tell you this, but if it is indeed a 4460, these are 1.5 GHz parts. Plain and simple, if they weren't they would have a wildly different part number (think of Intel CPU's...the new I7 39xx series are binned Xeon parts...) than the one shown in the pictures or on the IC's themselves. Why? To put it bluntly, false advertisement. Every single thing online states 1.5 GHz for the part. No literature (that I can find) says anything less than that. And yes, I know a few things have the wording 'up to', but that doesn't change the fact that it's still a 1.5 GHz part. It just isn't rated for higher than 1.5 GHz. It's similar to how Apple clocks the A5 down to 800 MHz for the Iphone 4S. Get some power savings at the price of a small bit of performance. Does this mean that the A5's in the Iphone 4s can't do 1 GHz? Probably not.
Got proof of the accused binning? Then maybe I'll start considering that belief. But until I see 'real' proof, I highly doubt that TI is selling binned parts that can't make 1.5 GHz. That would kind of be pointless to say the 4460 is a 1.5 GHz part, but sell it with a max of 1.2 GHz without atleast changing the part number in some way (ie 4450 for instance).
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From the kernel code of the Galaxy Nexus arch/arm/mach-omap2/id.c:
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if (cpu_is_omap446x()) {
si_type =
read_tap_reg(OMAP4_CTRL_MODULE_CORE_STD_FUSE_PROD_ID_1);
switch ((si_type & (3 << 16)) >> 16) {
case 2:
/* High performance device */
omap4_features |= OMAP4_HAS_MPU_1_5GHZ;
omap4_features |= OMAP4_HAS_MPU_1_2GHZ;
break;
case 1:
default:
/* Standard device */
omap4_features |= OMAP4_HAS_MPU_1_2GHZ;
break;
}
}
There appears to be something in the OMAP hardware that designates whether it is a "high performance device" or a "standard device". A standard device can only operate at 1.2GHz, not 1.5GHz. It is unclear if "device" here refers to the SoC or the phone. If it refers to the SoC, then it would suggest that the SoCs are binned into high and low performance categories, with the low performance devices incapable of performing at 1.5GHz.
But here's some preliminary evidence that the SoC itself may be missing something that's required for 1.5GHz to work: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19931580&postcount=97
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That being said, the memory bandwidth on the omap 4460 is 7.5GB/s the exynos 4210 is 6.4GB/s, and the Tegra 2 is a mere 2.5 GB/s.
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Where are you getting that the memory bandwidth of the OMAP 4460 is 7.5GB/s? The Galaxy Nexus uses the Samsung K3PE7E700M-XGC1 1GB memory package, which is a 400MHz, LPDDR2, 32-bit dual-channel memory package. This means it has a memory bandwidth of 400 * 2 (for DDR) * 32 * 2 (for dual-channel) = 51200Mb/s = 6.4GB/s, same as the Exynos 4210.
See: http://www.samsung.com/us/business/oem-solutions/pdfs/PSG2011_web.pdf for details on the memory package used in the GN.
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I will keep my response to you brief, since it's obvious you didn't read what I posted (judging from the fact that you posted link to the same person that I already had a link to in my sources). That being said, explain why the Exynos and the A5 are ahead. Instead of making a generalized please use some facts to support what you state. If that is what you think, I'd love to read why.
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I actually read your whole post, but skipped over reading the sources you had linked to.
A5 and Exynos are widely regarded as the 2 best SoC on the market (not including Tegra3, which just launched). Don't take my word for it, see anandtech here and here. But of course, it's hard to directly compare A5 to another (non-apple) SoC, because they run on different OSes
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I actually read your whole post, but skipped over reading the sources you had linked to.
A5 and Exynos are widely regarded as the 2 best SoC on the market (not including Tegra3, which just launched). Don't take my word for it, see anandtech here and here. But of course, it's hard to directly compare A5 to another (non-apple) SoC, because they run on different OSes
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I don't care what it's "widely regarded" as. I asked for concrete information that supports what you state. You support your argument by stating that people's opinion of it is that it's best....that's not exactly a compelling argument.
I didn't read a word seeing as how it's all big one wall of text but I got the gist of it from the title. Yay my Nexus is even further ahead of the competition now than it was 20 seconds ago
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I don't care what it's "widely regarded" as. I asked for concrete information that supports what you state. You support your argument by stating that people's opinion of it is that it's best....that's not exactly a compelling argument.
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Clock speeds aside, the A5 is clearly a better SoC. The CPUs in all three are pretty much the same, dual-core Cortex A9s on a 45nm process. It comes down to the GPU. The A5 has a better GPU simply because it's pretty much the multicore version of the GPU in the OMAP4460. Between the OMAP4460 and the Exynos 4210, it's more difficult to say. The PowerVR540 and Mali400 have different strengths and weaknesses, so I won't speculate here.
I would also suggest that you modify your original post. It contains quite a bit of misinformation and clearly many people have read it and taken it to heart. That's not a good thing, and I hope you will do the responsible thing and try to reverse the misinformation that you've spread.
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Clock speeds aside, the A5 is clearly a better SoC. The CPUs in all three are pretty much the same, dual-core Cortex A9s on a 45nm process. It comes down to the GPU. The A5 has a better GPU simply because it's pretty much the multicore version of the GPU in the OMAP4460. Between the OMAP4460 and the Exynos 4210, it's more difficult to say. The PowerVR540 and Mali400 have different strengths and weaknesses, so I won't speculate here.
I would also suggest that you modify your original post. It contains quite a bit of misinformation and clearly many people have read it and taken it to heart. That's not a good thing, and I hope you will do the responsible thing and try to reverse the misinformation that you've spread.
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Omap vs Exynos ? The latter doesn't support HSPA+ or LTE.
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Omap vs Exynos ? The latter doesn't support HSPA+ or LTE.
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This is hardly anything to do with "performance".....and not to mention that ICS is a TON more dependant on GPU renders....hardly a place it has any room to fall short.
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Omap vs Exynos ? The latter doesn't support HSPA+ or LTE.
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Exynos will do 21Mbps, HSPA+
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Where are you getting that the memory bandwidth of the OMAP 4460 is 7.5GB/s? The Galaxy Nexus uses the Samsung K3PE7E700M-XGC1 1GB memory package, which is a 400MHz, LPDDR2, 32-bit dual-channel memory package. This means it has a memory bandwidth of 400 * 2 (for DDR) * 32 * 2 (for dual-channel) = 51200Mb/s = 6.4GB/s, same as the Exynos 4210.
See: http://www.samsung.com/us/business/oem-solutions/pdfs/PSG2011_web.pdf for details on the memory package used in the GN.
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You are correct, I mistakenly read the the 4470's bandwidth when researching the 4460 (the 4470's bandwidth was referenced in the same TI interview where they discussed the 4460).
Some food for thought,,
Is Qualcomm cheating in Vellamo?
A few days ago we were happy to report about the first set of leaked HTC One X scores on an American device powered by Qualcomm’s new 28nm S4 chip.
The scores look quite good for Qualcomm, but since we got hold of an Asus Transformer Prime we decided to dig a bid deeper. Both Nvidia and Qualcomm do not want to get involved in official fight but we were quite surprised with what we learned. We also talked to some engineers that want to remain unnamed and we came up with a few interesting things.
The fastest CPU in Quadrant is Hummingbird S5PC110 from Nexus S as tested here.
Since we have tested this phone you can easily tell that this benchmark doesn't really use two or four cores properly. In this test S4 scores 4920 where the Tegra 3 based Transformer Prime scores 3954 and Tegra 2 scores 2154 on a custom ROM Optimus 2X.
The second test is the Vellamo benchmark was a bit more disturbing as once you run it you see Qualcomm ads all over it. This didn't give us much confidence and it turns out that Qualcomm has a lot of power over this particular benchmark.
Asus Transformer Prime scores 1408, while Qualcomm in Vellamo scores over 2000, our guess is between 2200 and 2300 as we didn't see the full number. Our good buddy Anand compared the One S powered by the S4 as well as the One X powered by Tegra 3 and you can see that Tegra 3 on this phone usually ends up faster or tied with the S4. It is faster in Sunspider Javascript benchmark 0.9.1, loses by a few points in Browsermark to S4 based HTC One S and dominates GLBenchmark. There is no 2X performance lead that we saw in the leaked S4 benches and frankly we see no point in taking Vellamo seriously until the issue is addressed.
Our engineering friends are telling us that Velamo disables some hardware acceleration in compositing Deap Sea Canvas and See the sun canvas subtest. Honeycomb and ICS support hardware acceleration by default and disabling this probably hurt the general score. One can argue that it hurts S4 scores as well, but it definitely hurts Tegra 3 more. The benchmark isn't flushing commands in the Pixel Blender subtest and there is a suspicion that this might help Qualcomm S4 to gain a better score.
The most important issue is the fact that it is unclear how Vellamo scores sub test scores. In Third party benchmarks such as Sun Spider and Google V8 it turns out that Vellamo penalizes high Google V8 scores and if your score gets too high in V8, the general score gets lower. There are a lot of benchmarks out there and some of the ones that like more cores include Antutu, CF benchmark and Moonbat.
French enthusiasts managed to run Antutu here, and Tegra 3 phone scores 10597, while the S4 based HTC One S scores 6458. This doesn't look so good for the phone that is based on S4 cores that should go after ARM’s upcoming A15 and it looks like that it cannot really beat the A9-based Tegra 3. In the real world, as long as the application is aware of four cores, there is a good chance that Tegra 3 will end up faster than the S4.
Naturally if you are reading this from the US and you really like your LTE from AT&T or Verison, I guess that you won’t have much choice and you will get the HTC One X with Qualcomm S4 as this chip also supports LTE. In the US it’s all about LTE and in Europe despite the fact that countries like Austria have LTE for more than a year now, even at €50 for 40GB there is almost no interest whatsoever. Networks need to put more advertising money and make 4G cool and it might happen. Of course, the lack of 4G devices is also an issue, but technology has a way of catching up.
The story gets even better when you know that there are lot of former ATI employees who take care of Adreno graphics and if natural selection and theory of evolution have taught us anything, it is that Nvidia and ATI are sworn enemies in any universe. Some readers might see a pinch of poetic justice in all of this, as Nvidia was accused of tweaking its GPU drivers to score more in PC benchmarks years ago.
Tudor Brown, the president of ARM that we meet a few years back at GlobalFoundries Dresden fab, once said that ARM does not want to get involved in GHz fight and this is now exactly what is going on, as punters are using benchmarks to prove of A is faster than B. Frankly I would be more concerned about battery life that I can get from a brand new phone as we got from five day battery life on feature phones to a day or so of battery life, and with LTE and heavy use, even this can go down to a few hours at best. If I found myself in Qualcomm’s shoes, this is what I would emphasize, the new 28nm process and energy efficiency, not skewed benchmarks.
Phones should be about the overall user experience, but how can you benchmark experience? It's a very subjective category and can hardly be expressed with cold numbers and statistics. We are not talking about PC components and the race for more performance, smartphones should be viewed as a complete package, battery life, build quality, UI and design come into play. Sheer performance is just one aspect and for many users it is still not the deciding factor and we believe it should not be.
In any case, watching the phone market will definitely be fun in the months to come.
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arthasz said:
Some food for thought,,
Source: Here
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haha fun stuff ill quote some of it in my thread if you don't mind thanks
to be honest this is exactly what i felt the moment i thought the score, its ridiculous
glad we got confirmation from some devs too
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speaking of which, their Adreno3x series is far from ready
Qualcomm has Imagination
Apparently they might go with PowerVR for the windows s4 devices, i find this hard to believe
Semi accurate is part of this fud game
Now things make sense. That's why people don't blindly trust these benchmark score. Try real work applications you'll better idea of the device like running 12 HD video in T3 etc.
I've always trusted Antutu
& apparently, the tegra 3 version is a beast, scoring over 10,000!
My SGS2 scores just 4,700 on gingerbread & around 5,700 on ICS.
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My overclocked (1,4 GHz) Desire Z (ICS with Sense 4.0A) got around 1 200 points in Vellamo, in graph it was just above Transformer Prime. Qualcomm must cheating.
Edit: added screenshots (due to my bad memory - it was just above while at 1,4 GHz ), at 1,6 GHz it is will be better than Prime (according to benchmark)
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My overclocked (1,4 GHz) Desire Z (ICS with Sense 4.0A) got around 1 200 points in Vellamo, in graph it was just above Transformer Prime. Qualcomm must cheating.
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hahaha now that is crazy, disappointed that qualcomm took this direction they always been more transparent
actually its wrong that they make a test themselves it can never be considered impartial
snapdragon 4 cores are impressive as they are they don't need this kind of fud just because they don't have a quad ready
If this is really true, how about other benchmarks with other devices? can they be trusted?
The galaxy tab s products that are available to me have an octa-core processor, with the high speed cores being 1.9ghz. I can't really understand why Samsung chose to use that instead of a 2.3ghz quad-core like in the tab pro.
See Wikipedia for an explanation of the concept: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_...multi-processing_.28global_task_scheduling.29
Because the Exynos 5 Octa-core is the one processor that Samsung has to be able to compete with Snapdragon 800, and is cheaper to implement since it's their own processor. I don't buy the Octa-core hype, I'd be happier with the Snapdragon 800 honestly like on the Tab PRO 8.4.
The question is:
Does TAB S use the 8 cores at the same time?
It seams it does NOT, little cores are only used when low power is required..
So performance wise, this CPU is slower than SD 800
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The question is:
Does TAB S use the 8 cores at the same time?
It seams it does NOT, little cores are only used when low power is required..
So performance wise, this CPU is slower than SD 800
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And yet I am getting 35,300 on Antutu using Shaheers t800 rom which is higher than any other current tablet or phone. (Shaheer's rom should go out of beta today - don't flash until final has been posted).
The Tab Pro 8.4 Antutu is 32,806.
I CANT PLAY NOVA 3 with exynos !
AND GAMING IS NOT SO SMOOTH ! STILL A BIT LAGGY
I can see the argument that you don't always need full power, thus the four slow cores, but since all cores can't run at once, it seems a cheat to have 1.9ghz as the top speed for the faster four cores. Since, or at least I assume, cores step up and down as needed, it seems to me a snapdragon 800 or higher at 2.3ghz or higher would have been just fine. I mean, if you are going to put in 3gb of RAM, then you should put in a great cpu also and not pretend less (1.9ghz) is a better contribution to what is supposed to be a premium tablet.
And yet I don't think samsung is doing enough to utilizing this hardware capability. In theory it should run at least 4x faster and 6x more effecient then the snap dragon and apple current A8 chip. It has failed to outshine the competitors because samsung software department sucks. Samsung hardware is still great though.
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I CANT PLAY NOVA 3 with exynos !
AND GAMING IS NOT SO SMOOTH ! STILL A BIT LAGGY
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Blame the developer for not making it compatible. Tegra powered Htc one x is incompatible too so not sure that is exynos issue..
i wish my t805 had Full HD screen resolution :cyclops:
Funny. Was just browsing the web a bit on my i5 ultrabook and it occurred to me that the browser on my Tab S is actually faster. If gaming is your primary thing, I'd buy the Nvidia Shield, not the Tab S. This tablet is designed for eye candy media consumption (internet and video) not for gaming enthusiasts. Try running your PC video card at 2560 x 1600 on ultra and see what you get.
i had heard from a Samsung rep i actually enjoy talking to that Sammy had just figured the all cores at once and we should see updates that turn that feature on. when this will happen who knows. i also did not ask him for a link and now cant find that info on the web so when i see him again soon i will get more info.
i would assume (insert you know what that means) that when/if this happens the full power of this setup would greatly improve?
anyway i have had my Tab S running snappy for me and no complaints at this time
You cannot compare the clock speeds from two different processors. For instance, you can't compare the 1.9GHz quad-core of the Exynos to the 2.3GHz quad-core of the Snapdragon 800. This doesn't mean anything. If you compare the clock speed of two Snapdragon chips, that's ok, or if you compare the clock speed of two Exynos chips, then that's ok too. Comparing the clock speed of an Intel chip against the clock speed of an AMD chip, is the same as comparing the clock speed of an Exynos chip to the clock speed of a Snapdragon chip.
The Exynos chip in this tablet has been shown to compete very well/close with the Snapdragon on every level except GPU. The Mali GPU in this chip just doesn't match the Adreno GPU from the Snapdragon. However, the RAM is faster in the Exynos than the Snapdragon.
That said, I am a fan of the Snapdragon chip, of course. I was holding off to see if the LTE variant of this tablet would have the Snapdragon 800, but instead they shipped with an Intel LTE modem. Besides apps/games not being optimized for Exynos, I am fairly satisfied with my purchase. I'm just anxious to get CyanogenMod(or any other AOSP ROM installed on it).
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i had heard from a Samsung rep i actually enjoy talking to that Sammy had just figured the all cores at once and we should see updates that turn that feature on. when this will happen who knows. i also did not ask him for a link and now cant find that info on the web so when i see him again soon i will get more info.
i would assume (insert you know what that means) that when/if this happens the full power of this setup would greatly improve?
anyway i have had my Tab S running snappy for me and no complaints at this time
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Could also mean increased battery consumption,don't know. Overall I am satisfied with this Tab including battery life.
There are 3 different performace results:
a) what Exynos 520 does achieve in practice now, measured bei some benchmarks and real world performance (<= Snapdragon 800)
b) what it could do theoretically - but will never happen due to driver and scheduler etc issues (>> Snapdragon)
c) what it will do some day in near future on an optimized ROM (somewhere in between?)
Fortunately the Exynos 5420 does support all 8 cores in parallel, see here:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Samsung-Exynos-5420-Octa-SoC.103633.0.html
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There are 3 different performace results:
a) what Exynos 520 does achieve in practice now, measured bei some benchmarks and real world performance (<= Snapdragon 800)
b) what it could do theoretically - but will never happen due to driver and scheduler etc issues (>> Snapdragon)
c) what it will do some day in near future on an optimized ROM (somewhere in between?)
Fortunately the Exynos 5420 does support all 8 cores in parallel, see here:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Samsung-Exynos-5420-Octa-SoC.103633.0.html
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Wish I knew how. Probably a linux thing. ...
If it is possible to implement in today's existing source, I'm sure @AndreiLux would know about it ?
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Wish I knew how. Probably a linux thing. ...
If it is possible to implement in today's existing source, I'm sure @AndreiLux would know about it ?
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It's impossible.
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It's impossible.
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What and why?
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What and why?
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http://www.androidauthority.com/sam...ta-can-use-eight-cores-simultaneously-267316/
I've found a few articles saying it should support it, then a couple Deva saying they had to goto the 5422 for a working implementation of HMP.
Here is a post from odroid
http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=97&t=5651
That's weird. The (newer) 5422 supports HMP but not 3gb RAM.