HTC M9 MORE POWERFUL THAN MY LAPTOP

[fordpower]

There are conflicting reports on the features of the HTC One (M9). According to 3G website, the device is expected to sport a 5.5-inch display with 2560 x 1440 screen resolution (534 ppi), powered by hexa-core Snapdragon 808 and octa-core Snapdragon 810 processors, run on Android 5.0 Lollipop and come packed with 3GB of RAM.

It is also reported that the device could sport a 5.2-inch display with 2560 x 1440 resolution (564ppi), packed with 64 or 128GB internal memory, more powerful battery than the one seen in HTC One (M8) and a 13MP camera.

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/htc-one-m9-release-date-expected-features-htc-one-m8-successor-614856

[AlwaysFSX]

You don't have 4 gigs of RAM?

[Geekazoid]

You don't have 4 gigs of RAM?

Yeah, it's pretty common these days to at least have 4GB, but the standard seems to be 8GB. :huh:

[APrettyCoolWalrus]

Well the laptop must be old if it has less than 3 gigs of RAM

[dizmo]

Eh. Rumors are rumors. It can't have the 808 and the 810...it's not surprising that it has 5.0..3gb is pretty standard fare these days, 4gb is already in some devices forthcoming.

It won't have 128gb, might have 64gb.

[Tafel_Kafel]

Bah, the iPhone 5S is more powerful than these "next-gen" consoles.

[UltraNeonGaming]

Bah, the iPhone 5S is more powerful than these "next-gen" consoles.

 

And most smart watches are more powerful than any iPhone.

 

(Don't be alarmed by sarcasm)

[SuperfastJellyfish]

Wow. this forum knows nothing about computers.

[Dr. Moose]

Are we not familiar with AMD vs. Intel? AMD= more (less powerful) cores. Intel= less (but much more powerful) cores. Same deal with Apple chips and Snapdragon chips, Apple being Intel and the latter being AMD. 

[noob_gamer]

Wow. this forum knows nothing about computers.

well that is a bold statement.

[Tacitus]

I don't see why they bother with QHD phone screens... it's a tiny screen, nobody needs that many PPI.

[_ASSASSIN_]

Are we not familiar with AMD vs. Intel? AMD= more (less powerful) cores. Intel= less (but much more powerful) cores. Same deal with Apple chips and Snapdragon chips, Apple being Intel and the latter being AMD.

Wouldn't really say that. Snapdragon 805 benchmarks on geekbench pretty well to the a8.

[Snooli]

Are we not familiar with AMD vs. Intel? AMD= more (less powerful) cores. Intel= less (but much more powerful) cores. Same deal with Apple chips and Snapdragon chips, Apple being Intel and the latter being AMD. 

Sure, where does the Denver TK1 and Samsung chips stand? It is much more complicated this time.

Why do manufacturers have to push the screen size so much? It is almost like the best comercial for Nexus 6 would be "Bigger-better, His confidence, her pleasure"

[Inkz]

5 inch is around the max for me, 5.2 might be pushing it but 5.5 is not acceptable.

[StormyNight]

The thread title is a bit misleading... as it doesn't really relate with the contents of the first post (I mean the laptop part)

[Mew]

Wouldn't really say that. Snapdragon 805 benchmarks on geekbench pretty well to the a8.

 

That's precisely the point, A8 performs better at single threaded tasks at almost half the clocks as the 805 and about the same in threaded tasks. The Intel vs AMD analogy is just an understatement of how much better the A7/A8 is in terms of IPC.

 

Edit:

Using this as an example (i3 4330 vs FX- 4350). The A8 is the i3 but clocked even lower, so higher ipc, and the FX is the 805. You tell me which is better, the i3 at lower clocks and fewer cores, or the FX with higher clocks and more cores.

[_ASSASSIN_]

That's precisely the point, A8 performs better at single threaded tasks at almost half the clocks as the 805 and about the same in threaded tasks. The Intel vs AMD analogy is just an understatement of how much better the A7/A8 is in terms of IPC.

Edit:

Using this as an example (i3 4330 vs FX- 4350). The A8 is the i3 but clocked even lower, so higher ipc, and the FX is the 805. You tell me which is better, the i3 at lower clocks and fewer cores, or the FX with higher clocks and more cores.

The extent of an analogy ends when either use different OSs

[Guest]

5 inch is around the max for me, 5.2 might be pushing it but 5.5 is not acceptable.

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[Guest]

The extent of an analogy ends when either use different OSs

Different OSs using starkly different means of optimization and memory allocation.

[Guest]

Well the laptop must be old if it has less than 3 gigs of RAM

Mine has 2

[Mew]

The extent of an analogy ends when either use different OSs

I think you're giving Android less credit than it deserves and snapdragon too much. If you run cinebench on Mac and windows, you'll get similar results. You can keep blaming Android to be unoptimized or accept the fact that snapdragon has poor ipc and has to jack up clock speeds like amd to compensate. Read this: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Apple-iPhone-6-Apple-A8-performance-review-CPU-and-GPU-compared-to-the-best-Android-phones-out-there_id60932

Edit: it's also rare to hear that an os is not optimized for single threaded applications rather than multithreaded. Unless you give me tangible proof that android is unoptimized even in single threaded applications, apple is just way ahead of Qualcomm in the mobile world.