Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa 8-Core Mobile Processor Detailed
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Chipset utilizes PowerVR SGX 544MP3 GPU running at 533Mhz
A new report has revealed the first alleged details of Samsung's recently-revealed 8-core mobile processor, the Exynos 5 Octa.
According to AnandTech, the chip, which is the world's first mobile processor to sport eight cores, will utilize a PowerVR SGX 544MP3 GPU running at 533Mhz. Comparatively, Apple's A5X chip found in the iPad 3 houses a less-powerful GPU based on the PowerVR SGX 543MP4.
As for the Octa's GPU, it clocks in at 533Mhz, while Apple's A6 GPU integrated in the iPhone 5 runs at 266Mhz, with the iPad 4's A6X GPU clocking in at about 300Mhz.
Samsung is expected to make the Galaxy S4 the first device on the planet to feature a eight-core processor.
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I guess Android OS and apps are highly threaded then?
It's Zak, and marketing. Just read the original article, it's more informative and less misleading:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6654/samsungs-exynos-5-octa-powered-by-powervr-sgx-544mp3-not-arms-mali
It's a 4+4 design, 4 Cortex A15's and 4 Cortex A7's.
Nividia Optimus. AMD Enduro. A high power quad core and a low power quad core. Difference?
This is more like 4+4 core.
Read the article you linked to, you idiot. He clearly says its a 4+4 SoC.
But 8 > 4+4, right ?
Via please kickstart this now i need a new dev phone for playing D3
more cash would rock .i think of above like set affinity in win nt so that individual or groups of programs run solely on low powrer cores or back grounding tasks to a core
It would seem so but that would probably be extremely difficult to design as the A7 and A15 cores are built together in a module called big.LITTLE, so until ARM releases libraries that accommodate switching tasks to different core architectures we won't see those. Right now the only way to make such a set-up would be to have a 2 module big.LITTLE for 2+2, and a dual core A15 on the side of that. Personally I believe that a tri-module big.LITTLE for 3+3 would be the optimum given todays computing requirements but building hi-end phones isn't so much about optimizing from an engineering stand point as it is about bragging rights of the marketing departments.