yasamoka wrotehaidcar wrotei am sure these lags fixable in software updates. the "lower" scores that people are getting are because of the increased resolution 1280*720 vs 960*540. In the end the Tegra 3 cpu is very powerful cpu and i think i would wait a bit because i am sure htc is aware of these bugs and working on a fix by now
Some of these benchmarks are purely CPU-based and not related to resolution in any way. For example, the Linpack benchmark. The dual core Krait in the One S has more than twice the performance per core. This means that disregarding multi-threading issues in ANY benchmark, the dual core Krait is overall faster compared to the quad core in Tegra 3. In single-threaded and dual-threaded applications, the Krait would offer more than double the performance. It is only in applications that would REQUIRE 4 threads for multiple calculations at once (Physics thread, AI thread, etc...) where the quad core would be beneficial. Considering that on Desktops we are barely using quads, and that mobile phone developers still have to code for the lowest common denominator, let alone a blazing fast newer gen dual core, the quad core is a power hog you are stuck with simply because you want Tegra 3 graphics performance.
Do remember what happened to Tegra 2. It went extinct fast with new phones in 2011.
true linpack measures the MFLOPS generated by the CPU and true S4 scores higher than Tera 3, but that doesn't mean the Tera 3 is slow. i am just saying that the lags that some one x experience could be the result of poor hardware software optimization that could be fixed in software updates.
Tera 2 was not very popular not because it was slow actually it was the second fastest Soc available after samsung's UNIX Soc, it was the limited modem support that Coy offered made manufacturers choose qualcomm S3 instead which supported wider range of modems.
yashmak wrotedisunited wroteall android manufacturers rushed to quad core except for Sony. I'd rather have dual core cortex A15 rather than quad core Cortex A9.
This, although Sony used Cortex A9 in the xperia DxD
the xperia S uses qualcomm S3 Soc which is simply 2 scorpion cores from the S2 Soc put together with an improved Adrien 220 GP. that's why the difference between S2 and S3 Soc are not big and the performance wise they are very similar.
Unlike Samung sung and TI, Qualcomm takes the arm architecture and heavily modify it to the point where you cant really say that that S3 is cortex A9 and S4 is Cortex A15.
As a matter of fact the S2 and the S3 are from the same arthur and they are similar and both kind of belong to the cortex A8 family not the A9. Arm skipped the A9 architecture.
The S4 sits between the A9 and A15, but its closer to the A15 than the A9 in terms of performance. some of the S4 strong points that it uses 28nm design which should silver more power efficiency and performance and less heat.
I am also waiting to the see the real Arm cortex A15 SoCs, they should offer almost the computing power to today's computer CPUs
