Title pretty much states it. I am wondering why companies are saying "1Ghz dual-core" without mentioning total of 2Ghz of power. Are the cores actually set at 512Mhz?
P.S. Mods, if this is in the wrong section please feel free to move it. I couldn't think of any other forum to put it in, and it kind of fits since all current and near-future dual-core phones are running Android.
There are two 1 Ghz cores. I think you might not understand how the dual-core works. Just because it dual core it doesn't mean the phone runs 2 times faster.
I don't have the ability to put in a link, but there is a white paper where NVIDIA explains how their dual core process works (copied from NVIDIA site):
Symmetrical Multiprocessing (SMP)
Symmetrical Multiprocessing technology enables mobile processors to not only deliver higher
performance, but also meet peak performance demands while staying within mobile power
budgets. A multi-core architecture with SMP is defined by the following characteristics:
? Architecture consists of two or more identical CPU cores.
? All cores share a common system memory and are controlled by a single Operating
system.
? Each CPU is capable of operating independently on different workloads and whenever
possible, is also capable of sharing workloads with the other CPU.
Imagine a mobile phone that has a dual core CPU with SMP support-- if the phone?s navigation
application is running concurrently with a streaming audio application, the OS can assign the
navigation task to one CPU core and the streaming audio task to the second CPU. Another
example is a single multi-threaded application that can benefit from multiple CPUs. The OS can
assign the threads to run on both CPUs concurrently and finish the task faster by sharing the
workload across the two CPUs. Since the workload is split across the two cores, these cores
can run at a reduced speed while achieving excellent performance and also conserving power
(running at lower frequency lessens the voltage required, resulting in a reduction in power by
the square of voltage decrease).
To summarize with Dual-Core processors you could:
1. Have one core running 1 app and another running a separate app and since the processor isn't running 2 apps at once, it uses less resources and power.
2. If you are running 1 app, you could have one app handle one part of the app, while the other core handles another aspect of the app. For example, you could have 1 core loading the text of a webpage, while the other core loads in the flash animation part of the site. thus each core uses less power, saving your battery. Also, since the cores would be running these separate tasks concurrently rather than sequentially, apps could finish tasks faster.
So this doesn't mean you have a 2Ghz core, but rather two 1Ghz cores that can work concurrently, rather than sequentially. I'm not sure if I've explained the difference clearly, but it is an important distinction to make.
If you want to read the entire White Paper where NVIDIA explains the benefits of dual core, google "The Benefits of Multiple CPU Cores in Mobile Devices - NVIDIA"
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