+1. Now MediaTek MT6592 (octa-core Cortex-A7) has achieved some impressive benchmarks. But will it perform well in real world tasks and beat Krait CPUs?
Look at Apple: 2 fast cores is any day better 4 slow cores.
should be able to take on all the dualcores. Mali-450 MP4 is old but it still packs enough power to take on anything upto Adreno 320. but that 8 Cortex A7 cores will only keep the noobs happy.
OT : Also sam, how come Amazon managed to release a Snapdragon 800 SOC device for 229$ when everyone says the price for the same chip is exorbitant. (Or atleast the licensing of the instruction set).. Or are the selling it at a low profit margin like the Nexus line?
i don't think Amazon is making any money from these tabs. They are kind of relying on their services and web stores to make up the revenue. More people buy these tabs, more customers will use their services. It even manages to beat the Nexus 7. Result of cut throat competition.
^^ I get it. But don't you think that we have a lot of Mediatek over-priced sh1t in the market right now? I do. I bought Pantech Burst after doing my research and i am very happy with the decision i made. And i still stand by my word, companies do need to have R&D for chipset which is already famous(e.x. QC), and find out a way to cut the cost. I don't mind buying Snapdragon S3 Dual Core for 15k, provided with other decent specs.
phone makers can't do anything about chipsets. How can Sony or LG help Qualcomm cut chipset cost? Qualcomm can move to a smaller node making the chip smaller reducing cost. Actually phone makers should strip Android of all those junk UI crap and go vanilla. This will lower the cost of the device without having to switch to mediatek or Cortex A5 based chipsets. LG has ARM license and is developing their own SOC, Huawei has introduced its own HiSilicon SOC series, Sony's NovaThor got scrapped, Samsung has its own foundry so your wish is kind of partially fulfilled.
Mediatek's chipset (whatever be the core) were all suppose to be used in low cost mobile but the "i want more core" kind of thing has propelled them into midrange section. and because Qualcomm's new gen of Cortex A7 based chipset are mysteriously missing from market, phone makers have switched to mediatek instead. at least the GPU doesn't suck.
LG could have used Snapdragon 400 which will only increase price by a few dollars at best while delivering much better performance but as this is aimed at the Asian market where things like architecture or processing cores has no value, they decided to stick up an ancient processor. anyway i don't expect this will sell more than a fraction of what Xperia C will do.
