[Info] Exynos Octa and why you need to stop the drama about the 8 cores [Upd 25/05]

Question. Which one should be a better processor to choose from? The Quad-core snapdragron or the Exynos Octa-core? Exynos vs Snapdragron.

If I'm playing a 3D game, the phone will use the A15s, right?
Would the Snapdragon 600 be more efficient than the exynos Octa in that scenario?

I think we will have to wait until reviews are out to know for sure which is faster/more battery efficient. Also if you want LTE (in the US) I think you will be stuck with the Snapdragon because of the LTE bands supported by the chipset. If I had to guess, I would suggest that the 8 core would be better for power consumption and performance, but that's all it is, a guess.

How 3d is this game? :sly:

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If I'm playing a 3D game, the phone will use the A15s, right?
Would the Snapdragon 600 be more efficient than the exynos Octa in that scenario?

Read andrei's misconception no.4....

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with the A15 at a distant last in terms of efficiency.

It depends on what u mean by better

Power= snapdragon
Battery savings= Exynos

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I did. That's why I asked the question.
He says the A15 will be least efficient

But I have no idea how many cores heavy gaming takes up. Also, not sure how the S600 would deal with its cores that arent being used.

Depends on the game.

90% of games will run on the A7 cores without ever needing the A15 power.

3D needs minimal CPU power, for example clamping the CPU on our current devices to single-core and 600MHz will have absolutely no effect on benchmarks like GLBenchmark or the Unreal Citadel.

However if the game does physics, A.I. computations, sound effects and who know what else, then the CPU will be loaded.

It also depends how threaded the game is. I don't think that games run more than 1 "heavy" thread, so in optimal conditions you'd only have a single A15 up while having the rest of the pairs staying on the A7 cores.

There is no definitive answer to your question. Just fire up CPU-Spy, reset the frequency states and go play a game and see the result. If you're on an A9 core phone then theoretically if you exceed the 1000MHz state, then that would be over the capacity of what the A7's could deliver and it would switch over to the A15.