HTC One S packing Snapdragon S4 processor gets benchmarked

10. hobble posted on 23 Feb 2012, 15:35 0 0

Never had any issues rooting an htc. My galaxy s2 however was a different story.

13. Mario1017 posted on 23 Feb 2012, 20:38 0 0

lol pain in the but???? it took me 3 minutes to root my HTC Desire... you either have a very unsupported device or didn't know what you where doing.

4. remixfa posted on 23 Feb 2012, 10:02 1 2

lol no. its just experiencing the benefits of the die shrink and faster GPU. Nenamark2 is a GPU test more than anything. Whatever the die shrinks bring (they all are pretty much getting it) will be overshadowed by what the A-15's bring.

7. Hunt3rj2 posted on 23 Feb 2012, 11:46 2 1

Please stop spreading misinformation, Krait is almost exactly the same performance as the Cortex A15. The DMIPS/Mhz is claimed to be 3.3 for Krait, and the rumor is that Cortex A15 is 3.5.

Krait is an architecture directly equivalent to Cortex A15 in performance and saying otherwise is disingenous. The Snapdragon S4 isn't designed to compete with Cortex A9 SoCs, it is designed to compete with Cortex A15 SoCs.

9. remixfa posted on 23 Feb 2012, 12:56 2 1

OMG, i feel like im having the same conversation every day..lol

ok. there are 2, yes 2 versions of krait coming out.

there is THIS krait, the first generation which is A9 equivilant (the S3 is an A8 equivilant) and is nothing more than a die shrink and a GPU improvement with higher clock speeds...

Q4 of this year will bring out the A-15 equivilant Krait.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5559/qualcomm-snapdragon-s4-krait-performance-preview-msm8960-adreno-225-benchmarks/5

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11. Hunt3rj2 posted on 23 Feb 2012, 18:27 1 0

Krait is Krait. There is no change in architecture within Snapdragon S4 in the CPU. The Q4 refresh of Krait is when the process has been refined, and much in the same way as the current Tegra 3 for the HTC OneX will get a clockspeed bump, the Q4 refresh should bring faster clock speeds and a better GPU.

This isn't designed to be A9 equivalent, this is designed to beat Cortex A15 SoCs to the punch and get as many design wins and orders as possible to tide over Qualcomm until they can get a new GPU and higher clocks from the SoC.

Oh, and the S3 is more like a Cortex A8.5, neither an A8 nor an A9, so that argument is bunk....

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12. Hunt3rj2 posted on 23 Feb 2012, 18:34 0 0

Oh, and if Krait was equivalent to A9, then it wouldn't stand a chance against the Tegra 3.

So how do you explain why Krait absolutely dominates Tegra 3 in lightly threaded tasks?

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