Apple A8 Benchmarked

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TreVader

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Asus sells a 4ghz cyclone?
http://www.asus.com/Phones/ZenFone_Products/

Maybe Samsung Sells it to go along with Intel cellular chips?
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-xmm-7260-lte-advanced-modem,27694.html

Oh I know maybe Motorolla has a 4ghz cyclone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_RAZR_i

:hmm:


So the 4790K runs at a base clock of 4Ghz?

:hmm:



Intel probably loves the A7/A8/A9... from a business perspective (so far). Apple isn't directly competing with them with their core/atom line and its keeps competitors in the smartphone/tablet space behind in fabrication technology as Apple chews up TSMC's newest node capacity.



If Apple starts replacing core in their laptops however they may get concerned but that is at least several years away.

Good point, I didn't think of it eating TSMCs capacity. You're prob right about them liking A6 but I think A7/8 are a bit too close for comfort performance wise.
 

Enigmoid

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Good point, I didn't think of it eating TSMCs capacity. You're prob right about them liking A6 but I think A7/8 are a bit too close for comfort performance wise.

As long as apple doesn't sell their chips on the market they are not a large threat. Selling iphones/ipads doesn't deprive intel of any revenue. The problem is if apple can design a good enough chip it proves others can as well.
 

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As long as apple doesn't sell their chips on the market they are not a large threat. Selling iphones/ipads doesn't deprive intel of any revenue. The problem is if apple can design a good enough chip it proves others can as well.

Of course it deprives Intel of revenue. Every consumer who buys an ARM tablet could have been buying an x86 tablet.
 
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I think it's unlikely unless they have two CPU design teams working in parallel : one designed A8 while the other was working on an improved micro-arch; the latter could already have ES in 20nm and start working on 14/16nm. That still would be crazy...

I have heard (per David Kanter) that Apple has 3 teams.
 
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Interesting! Was it specified whether these were 3 (SoC) design teams or 3 CPU design teams? If that is 3 CPU design teams, I guess Apple may surprise us

Can't remember off the top of my head, but I *think* this was in reference to CPU teams.

I'll try to dig up the post (RWT forum is very hard to search for things in).
 

iiiankiii

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So the 4790K runs at a base clock of 4Ghz?

:hmm:





Good point, I didn't think of it eating TSMCs capacity. You're prob right about them liking A6 but I think A7/8 are a bit too close for comfort performance wise.

Bro, let it go. First you talk about file size limitation being tied to 32-bit vs 64-bit processors. Then you compared a SUBSIDIZED iPhone to an UNSUBSIDIZED Galaxy S5 to show how the iPhone is cheaper. Now, you're questioning if the 4790k runs at 4ghz?

Look, I think the iPhone is a fine product. But, you're reaching too much. Don't have to be an apple apologist. There are many great phones out there. Competition is great. C'mon, man. Let it go.
 

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Interesting! Was it specified whether these were 3 (SoC) design teams or 3 CPU design teams? If that is 3 CPU design teams, I guess Apple may surprise us

I would bet they have one team on GPU designs.. didn't they hire a bunch of ex ATI/AMD guys a couple years ago?
 

TreVader

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Bro, let it go. First you talk about file size limitation being tied to 32-bit vs 64-bit processors. Then you compared a SUBSIDIZED iPhone to an UNSUBSIDIZED Galaxy S5 to show how the iPhone is cheaper. Now, you're questioning if the 4790k runs at 4ghz?



Look, I think the iPhone is a fine product. But, you're reaching too much. Don't have to be an apple apologist. There are many great phones out there. Competition is great. C'mon, man. Let it go.


What are you even talking about? Are you another one of these people that follows me from thread to thread?


Get a life, dude. Some people don't have time to look up clock speeds. Some of us have lives.

This is a discussion about A8 in case you had trouble reading the title. And you still don't realize that 64 bit does help process things faster, why else is A8 outperforming all Qualcomm and Samsung SoCs by such a large margin?
 
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TreVader

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Excellent micro-architecture.

Perhaps. If you read the anandtech article on A7, he states that there are applications that, when compiled in 64 bit, run substantially faster BECAUSE they are run with 64 bit registers.



I'm not sure the mechanics, maybe I'm wrong. On some level, it's just funny to me how spun up certain people get when I mention 64bit, but I trust the anandtech article.
 
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Perhaps. If you read the anandtech article on A7, he states that there are applications that, when compiled in 64 bit, run substantially faster BECAUSE they are run with 64 bit registers.



I'm not sure the mechanics, maybe I'm wrong. On some level, it's just funny to me how spun up certain people get when I mention 64bit, but I trust the anandtech article.

There is no doubt that ARMv8 leads to a speedup. But I think the performance of Apple's chips is impressive beyond what the move to ARMv8 brings.
 

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Perhaps. If you read the anandtech article on A7, he states that there are applications that, when compiled in 64 bit, run substantially faster BECAUSE they are run with 64 bit registers.



I'm not sure the mechanics, maybe I'm wrong. On some level, it's just funny to me how spun up certain people get when I mention 64bit, but I trust the anandtech article.
Here is a hint for you: dig into SPEC results and see how some of the parts of SPEC are being compiled in 32-bit mode because they are slower in 64-bit mode. And this applies to 64-bit ARM chips too.
 

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There is more to a discussion than hardware, and I obviously know substantially more than you. I made a concise argument, you resort to name calling and lying about being knowledgeable and reading this thread.


Next time you want to go on a crusade for android in the CPU forum, at least take the time to actually figure out what thread you are posting in.

You clearly don't have a hardware background - your posts are all based on reviews (Anandtech especially) and layman's knowledge. If you want to point me to a post of yours that actually shows new and specific knowledge about CPUs, I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

You seem to take disagreeing with posts that amount to "Apple rules, all other competitors suck" as a "crusade for their competitor". I honestly don't know if you're doing a self-parody or you actually believe what you write.

The sheer number of Apple products in my home makes me shake my head at you thinking I'm an Android crusader (iPad Air, iPhone 6, 2014 Macbook Pro, Airport Extreme).
 

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Excellent micro-architecture.
Well, I'd say that it's more that Samsung and Qualcomm just have not been keeping on top of things. Qualcomm has anemic quad cores, and Samsung hasn't even got anything custom out yet. Yes, Apple's done some awesome work, but the fact that their competition simply hasn't is what makes the gap so large.
 

Essence_of_War

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Perhaps. If you read the anandtech article on A7, he states that there are applications that, when compiled in 64 bit, run substantially faster BECAUSE they are run with 64 bit registers.



I'm not sure the mechanics, maybe I'm wrong. On some level, it's just funny to me how spun up certain people get when I mention 64bit, but I trust the anandtech article.

Isn't it enough that the garden is exceedingly well designed? Does it have to have 64bit faeries at the bottom too?
 

TreVader

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Well, I'd say that it's more that Samsung and Qualcomm just have not been keeping on top of things. Qualcomm has anemic quad cores, and Samsung hasn't even got anything custom out yet. Yes, Apple's done some awesome work, but the fact that their competition simply hasn't is what makes the gap so large.


I thought Samsung had some of the best CPU performance (both MT and ST) with their Exynos 5433? I recall them even beating A7 in octane, I don't think Qualcomm has come close to A7 in anything but GPU. It might've been a preliminary benchmark tho.


From my own experience with S600 and 4.3 I would much rather be using the Samsung chipset.
 

iiiankiii

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What are you even talking about? Are you another one of these people that follows me from thread to thread?


Get a life, dude. Some people don't have time to look up clock speeds. Some of us have lives.

This is a discussion about A8 in case you had trouble reading the title. And you still don't realize that 64 bit does help process things faster, why else is A8 outperforming all Qualcomm and Samsung SoCs by such a large margin?

I don't know about what you post outside of this thread. But, based on this thread, you are very defensive. I'm just saying.. take it easy, bro. You keep mentioning that you don't have time to look up clock speeds and such. Yet, you have time to post incorrect data (and plenty of it). Good going, bro. I enjoying reading stuff about cpus as much as the rest of the people here. Just don't be too defensive when people call you out when you're wrong. It's ok to be wrong.
 
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