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5 of the Most Powerful Mobile processors of 2014

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Mobile processors in phones this year have surpassed the computing powers of a lot of computers from a decade ago. Here are the top 5 fastest smartphone processors available in the market for 2014.

Huawei Kirin 925. The Kirin 925 is the latest and fastest chip developed by the Chinese company. It uses a 28nm HPM process and runs a pair of quad-core chips — 4x Cortex-A15 + 4 x Cortex-A7 big.LITTLE.

The GPU is powered by a Mali-T628 MP4 running at 600MHz.

Huawei Kirin 925

What is most interesting with the Kirin 925 is that it is capable of supporting dual-SIM functionality with both dual-LTE radios.

Mediatek MT6795. Not to be outdone, MediaTek finally released its octa-core chip with LTE connectivity. The MT6795 is clocked at 2.2GHz, all 8 cores of them based on ARM Cortex-A53.

MT6795

Graphics is powered by a PowerVR G6200 @ 700 MHz that can handle up to 2560×1600-pixel display.

We have not yet seen any recognizable phone brands that uses the MT6795 but we’ve seen some leads from Chinese online stores of close phones (Galaxy Note 4) running the chip.

NVidia Tegra K1. Released around the 2nd quarter of 2014, the Tegra K1 uses a 28nm HPM process and runs on ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore R3 plus a low power companion core. Each of the 4 cores clocks up to 2.3GHz.

Tegra K1

The GPU uses GK20A Kepler micro-architecture with capacity of 364.79 GFLOPS (with core configuration of 192:8:4). That is a lot of cores!

However, very few devices are using it — including the NVidia Shield Tablet and the XiaoMi MiPad.

Samsung Exynos 5 Octa 5433. This chip uses a 20 nm HKMG process running a quad-core Cortex-A57+ quad-core Cortex-A53 (big.LITTLE with GTS) implementation. The GPU is powered by a Mali-T760 MP6 @ 700 MHz with 206 GFLOPS (FP16).

Exynos 5 Octa

The chip is developed by Samsung and being used in the Galaxy Note 4. However, it’s possible that might offer the same to other friendly brands.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 805. Perhaps the most popular among the mobile chipsets right now is the Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm. It is being used by the most number of phone brands.

Snapdragon 805

The Snapdragon 805 is based on 28nm HPm process and runs on a quad-core processor with each core running at 2.7GHz. Graphics is powered by an Adreno 420 GPU.

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5 of the Most Powerful Mobile processors of 2014

Abe Olandres Leave a comment

Mobile processors in phones this year have surpassed the computing powers of a lot of computers from a decade ago. Here are the top 5 fastest smartphone processors available in the market for 2014.

Huawei Kirin 925. The Kirin 925 is the latest and fastest chip developed by the Chinese company. It uses a 28nm HPM process and runs a pair of quad-core chips — 4x Cortex-A15 + 4 x Cortex-A7 big.LITTLE.

The GPU is powered by a Mali-T628 MP4 running at 600MHz.

Huawei Kirin 925

What is most interesting with the Kirin 925 is that it is capable of supporting dual-SIM functionality with both dual-LTE radios.

Mediatek MT6795. Not to be outdone, MediaTek finally released its octa-core chip with LTE connectivity. The MT6795 is clocked at 2.2GHz, all 8 cores of them based on ARM Cortex-A53.

MT6795

Graphics is powered by a PowerVR G6200 @ 700 MHz that can handle up to 2560×1600-pixel display.

We have not yet seen any recognizable phone brands that uses the MT6795 but we’ve seen some leads from Chinese online stores of close phones (Galaxy Note 4) running the chip.

NVidia Tegra K1. Released around the 2nd quarter of 2014, the Tegra K1 uses a 28nm HPM process and runs on ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore R3 plus a low power companion core. Each of the 4 cores clocks up to 2.3GHz.

Tegra K1

The GPU uses GK20A Kepler micro-architecture with capacity of 364.79 GFLOPS (with core configuration of 192:8:4). That is a lot of cores!

However, very few devices are using it — including the NVidia Shield Tablet and the XiaoMi MiPad.

Samsung Exynos 5 Octa 5433. This chip uses a 20 nm HKMG process running a quad-core Cortex-A57+ quad-core Cortex-A53 (big.LITTLE with GTS) implementation. The GPU is powered by a Mali-T760 MP6 @ 700 MHz with 206 GFLOPS (FP16).

Exynos 5 Octa

The chip is developed by Samsung and being used in the Galaxy Note 4. However, it’s possible that might offer the same to other friendly brands.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 805. Perhaps the most popular among the mobile chipsets right now is the Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm. It is being used by the most number of phone brands.

Snapdragon 805

The Snapdragon 805 is based on 28nm HPm process and runs on a quad-core processor with each core running at 2.7GHz. Graphics is powered by an Adreno 420 GPU.

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Qualcomm unveils 64-bit Snapdragon 810 and 808

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Qualcomm is going in for the kill as the company announced two new powerful additions to their 64-bit mobile chip lineup, namely the octa-core Snapdragon 810 and hexa-core Snapdragon 808.

Of the two, the Snapdragon 810 sports the better feature set consisting of four Cortex-A53 processors which handles the mundane tasks and another set of Cortex-A57 chips which takes care of the resource-heavy apps.

Speaking of performance, the Snapdragon 810 will also benefit from the new Adreno 430 GPU which, according to Qualcomm, is 30% faster than Adreno 420 or around 80% faster than Adreno 330, the GPU we often see on flagship devices. Furthermore, the octa-core SoC supports displays with 4K resolution, LPDDR4 RAM, as well as Cat 6 LTE-Advance connectivity.

Despite of being the modest between the two new chipsets, the Snapdragon 808 is by no means a push-over. It has a quartet of A53 chips which is complemented by a pair of Cortex-A57 processors and Adreno 418 which should come in handy when the going gets tough.

The Snapdragon 808 inherits some of the qualities of its more powerful counterpart such as LTE Category 6/7 modem and support for MIMO which brings improved wireless transfer rate over Wi-Fi. On the downside, the hexa-core only supports 2K displays and LPDDR3 RAM which is still pretty respectable in today’s standards.

According to Qualcomm, consumers can expect these new Snapdragon SoCs to start making their way in to various flagship devices starting the first half of 2015. Of course, there’s no point of making a 64-bit SoC if the ecosystem can’t support it which leads us to think that Google may announce a 64-bit Android OS in the near future, perhaps in Google I/O 2014?

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Qualcomm unveils 64-bit Snapdragon 810 and 808

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Qualcomm is going in for the kill as the company announced two new powerful additions to their 64-bit mobile chip lineup, namely the octa-core Snapdragon 810 and hexa-core Snapdragon 808.

Of the two, the Snapdragon 810 sports the better feature set consisting of four Cortex-A53 processors which handles the mundane tasks and another set of Cortex-A57 chips which takes care of the resource-heavy apps.

Speaking of performance, the Snapdragon 810 will also benefit from the new Adreno 430 GPU which, according to Qualcomm, is 30% faster than Adreno 420 or around 80% faster than Adreno 330, the GPU we often see on flagship devices. Furthermore, the octa-core SoC supports displays with 4K resolution, LPDDR4 RAM, as well as Cat 6 LTE-Advance connectivity.

Despite of being the modest between the two new chipsets, the Snapdragon 808 is by no means a push-over. It has a quartet of A53 chips which is complemented by a pair of Cortex-A57 processors and Adreno 418 which should come in handy when the going gets tough.

The Snapdragon 808 inherits some of the qualities of its more powerful counterpart such as LTE Category 6/7 modem and support for MIMO which brings improved wireless transfer rate over Wi-Fi. On the downside, the hexa-core only supports 2K displays and LPDDR3 RAM which is still pretty respectable in today’s standards.

According to Qualcomm, consumers can expect these new Snapdragon SoCs to start making their way in to various flagship devices starting the first half of 2015. Of course, there’s no point of making a 64-bit SoC if the ecosystem can’t support it which leads us to think that Google may announce a 64-bit Android OS in the near future, perhaps in Google I/O 2014?

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NVidia reveals its plans for its upcoming SoC

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So we guess one can never be too early to make an early announcement then, as NVidia has let in a few fortunate souls to get a sneak-peek at what’s in store for the company’s system-on-chip lineup.

Just when we thought that the pair of Tegra 4 processors, which have recently made its debut, is the future of mobile computing, it’s seems that the chipmaker is just warming up in preparation for greater things ahead.

nvidia soc roadmap

NVidia gave some details about its upcoming SoCs codenamed Logan and Parker. The former is said to be paired with Kepler GPU, making it the first Tegra SoC with CUDA capabilities. The latter, on the other hand will feature a Maxwell GPU and a 64-bit ARM CPU, a five-years-in-the-making processor developed by NVidia which currently goes by the codename Project Denver.

Information about the release dates of these next generation SoCs are vague, but Logan is expected to make its debut early next year while Parker won’t be available until 2015.

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