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2011-01-24 , 22:41
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Originally Posted by MONVMENTVM View Post
Snapdragon is a a System-on-Chip and in fact it's using the Cortex A8 core. My fault was that in the post before I should have compared the OMAP3 and the Snapdragon, which both use the Cortex A8 core.
The Snapdragon is NOT based on the Cortex A8.

Qualcomm licenced the ARM v7 instruction set, but not the Cortex-A8 design - the former being a much cheaper licence than the latter, and then Qualcomm went on to design their own core that was mostly compatible with the ARMv7 architecture. But it's certainly not a Cortex A8, as Qualcomm haven't licensed this design from ARM.

The Qualcomm implementation of ARMv7 is generally considered to be less efficient than the ARM Cortex-A8 (which is why Snapdragon has to run at a faster clock to remain competitive) and the TI OMAP3 version of the Cortex-A8 is laid out by hand and not using macros so is generally considered the most efficient implementation of the Cortex-A8 to date.

Add it all up and clock-for-clock an OMAP3 outperforms a Snapdragon, both in terms of raw computational ability and also power consumption.
 

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