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

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.

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You think it's possible to shut down the A15 cores and just use the A7 cores? (For example, in STweak in the future)

I'd be playing something like Fifa and NFS,

Guess I'll have to try it to get a better idea.

Thanks for the explanation

Let's keep the stupid out of this thread, shall we?

Definitely yes.

Let's keep the stupid out of this thread, shall we?

Definitely yes.

Samsung Exynos Hi, Ikmal. The International (non-U.S.) variant of the Samsung Galaxy S IV will carry the Exynos 5 Octa processor.