JRDroid
Well-known member
Face palm to you sir, just go find any U.S. note2 and any s4 krait equipped dual core phone...compare the two and you'll be saying the opposite. The exyos4 quad in any form wasn't bested till late 2012 when s4 pro chips hit the market and they still pull more juice for that extra bit of power than the exynos4 quad. In fact the exyos4 quads beat the dual core kraits on battery life as well as processing power.
And to others, the note2 is proof enough, lte on a U.S. equipped exynos4 quad is not an issue. The demand for the note2 and sgs3 is the reason one got exynos and the other didn't. Likely this is the same thing playing out allover again with sgs4. I'd be willing to bet the note3 will have exynos5 octa with lte for america. It's the demand and release dates, nothing more.
When the GS3 launched, the qualcomm version out performed the exynos version in every benchmark and every single review said they could tell a difference when the two were side by side in real world situations. This was because the Exynos 4 was based on a cortex a9 while the Krait architecture was much more like the a15 that the Octa is built on. A dual core Krait or a15 will be a quad core a9 every day when running the same software. Not to say the Exynos 4 was a bad processor, but it wasn't the best either.