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Originally Posted by janeuner
OMAP and the A4 aren't processors, they are SoCs. In fact they have the same cpu inside, the almighty Cortex A8.
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2010-07-30
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Originally Posted by giannoug
But just because they're both based on the A8, doesn't make them clock-for-clock comparable.
OMAP and the A4 aren't processors, they are SoCs. In fact they have the same cpu inside, the almighty Cortex A8.
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2010-07-30
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles
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But just because they're both based on the A8, doesn't make them clock-for-clock comparable.
If the cache sizes are the same then why not?
They serve the same Instruction Set using the same Architecture.
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2010-07-30
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles
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.
But just because they're both based on the A8, doesn't make them clock-for-clock comparable.
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
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2010-07-30
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IMHO upping the amount of RAM on these devices improves the performance more dramatically than upping the clock-speed.
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2010-08-03
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Originally Posted by linuxeventually
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IMHO upping the amount of RAM on these devices improves the performance more dramatically than upping the clock-speed.
Extra characters to make it accept my post.
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2010-08-03
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Originally Posted by ToJa92
Anything from Intel would require a car battery or three to run more than a couple of hours.
If you look here Intel seems to be working on something ...
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2010-08-03
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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. ><!
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2010-08-04
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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/
http://jedibeeftrix.wordpress.com/20...-tablet-phone/