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giannoug 2010-07-29 19:54
Re: Is there any competitors against snapdragon - processor wise
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by janeuner (Post 769300)
Freescale has i.MX515 and i.MX535
Apple has the A4
Nvidia has the Tegra 250
And, of course, the TI OMAP line.

All of these are excellent Snapdragon competitors. Snapdragon has the press drooling because they can print headlines that say "Sexy 1Ghz Phone is Sexy!" But the reality is that software is much more important than the hardware.
OMAP and the A4 aren't processors, they are SoCs. In fact they have the same cpu inside, the almighty Cortex A8.

GeneralAntilles 2010-07-30 12:41
Re: Is there any competitors against snapdragon - processor wise
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by giannoug (Post 769573)
OMAP and the A4 aren't processors, they are SoCs. In fact they have the same cpu inside, the almighty Cortex A8.
But just because they're both based on the A8, doesn't make them clock-for-clock comparable.

noipv4 2010-07-30 13:15
Re: Is there any competitors against snapdragon - processor wise
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles (Post 770224)
But just because they're both based on the A8, doesn't make them clock-for-clock comparable.
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If the cache sizes are the same then why not?
They serve the same Instruction Set using the same Architecture.

dchky 2010-07-30 13:31
Re: Is there any competitors against snapdragon - processor wise
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles (Post 770224)
But just because they're both based on the A8, doesn't make them clock-for-clock comparable.
While you may be correct, I think the difference is about as noteworthy as people dropping hundreds of $$$ on video cards just to get a couple extra FPS in their game. Which is to say that if it looks like an A8, then it probably is just a plain old A8.

The Apple A4 has effectively been decapped (not literally that I know of yet) with pictures posted around. Here's a link to a couple

linuxeventually 2010-07-30 13:55
Re: Is there any competitors against snapdragon - processor wise
 
IMHO upping the amount of RAM on these devices improves the performance more dramatically than upping the clock-speed.

kaos_king 2010-08-03 14:12
Re: Is there any competitors against snapdragon - processor wise
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by linuxeventually (Post 770291)
IMHO upping the amount of RAM on these devices improves the performance more dramatically than upping the clock-speed.
+1



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kureyon 2010-08-03 18:35
Re: Is there any competitors against snapdragon - processor wise
 
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Originally Posted by ToJa92 (Post 769253)
If you look here Intel seems to be working on something ...
Anything from Intel would require a car battery or three to run more than a couple of hours. ;)

arora.rohan 2010-08-03 18:39
Re: Is there any competitors against snapdragon - processor wise
 
I thought N900 Cortex a8 when overclocked to 900Mhz or 1 ghz beats the Snapdragon ... :-/ am i wrong? and the N900 can be used between 600-1ghz range comfortably i guess..so its a win for us. ><!

Jedibeeftrix 2010-08-04 09:50
Re: Is there any competitors against snapdragon - processor wise
 
I will be very disappointed if nokia don't adopt Omap 4 into their meego line the second it is available, they will need it for the GPU performance as much as anything else:

http://jedibeeftrix.wordpress.com/20...-tablet-phone/


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