Snapdragon vs Humming bird

[Tarwinia]

Just remember that the Snapdragon isn't A8 exactly. It's a mixture between A8 and A9 (has features of both). I even read somewhere it was fully compatible with A9 (it didn't say it was as good as, just compatible). This superiority to A8 is why snapdragons were used in so many phones.

And yeah, the battery is quite a bit larger than previous HTC phones, this with hopefully better optimizations, SHOULD mean a markedly better battery life.

 

[armdavid2]

I'm going for the Evo 3D... Other than battery life in the OG Evo all I heard is good things, and the Epic all I heard is how long it took them to get 2.2... But that's just me and that's only one of the reasons!

Battery life is a simple fix. throw a custom rom/kernel and thing will last all day!

 

[Auzo]

Just remember that the Snapdragon isn't A8 exactly. It's a mixture between A8 and A9 (has features of both). I even read somewhere it was fully compatible with A9 (it didn't say it was as good as, just compatible). This superiority to A8 is why snapdragons were used in so many phones.

And yeah, the battery is quite a bit larger than previous HTC phones, this with hopefully better optimizations, SHOULD mean a markedly better battery life.

Where did you see that?

The Snapdragon uses the Scorpion CPU which is Qualcomm's name for their cpu based on the A8 Architecture. When it was developed the A9 wasn't more than a rumor at best. There is definitely no elements of the A9 in it, how could there be. The A8 however isn't a direct copy of ARMs reference design. Qualcomm takes the instruction set from ARM and builds the architecture of their CPU around it to improve computing efficiency. So maybe that is what you are thinking of. But I believe this buys them 5% improvement, at best, over the reference design. If compared to the A9 which is clock for clock 20-30% better it still doesn't match up favorably. The scorpion at 1.2GHz will roughly be as quick as an A9 architecture at 1GHz.

I am just speaking about the CPU portion of the SoC here.

 

[sprinttouch]

Where did you see that?

The Snapdragon uses the Scorpion CPU which is Qualcomm's name for their cpu based on the A8 Architecture. When it was developed the A9 wasn't more than a rumor at best. There is definitely no elements of the A9 in it, how could there be. The A8 however isn't a direct copy of ARMs reference design. Qualcomm takes the instruction set from ARM and builds the architecture of their CPU around it to improve computing efficiency. So maybe that is what you are thinking of. But I believe this buys them 5% improvement, at best, over the reference design. If compared to the A9 which is clock for clock 20-30% better it still doesn't match up favorably. The scorpion at 1.2GHz will roughly be as quick as an A9 architecture at 1GHz.

I am just speaking about the CPU portion of the SoC here.

I believe you are correct on this. I've heard the MSM8260 and 8660 are based on A8, and the 8960 is based on A9. But i believe this does match up in our favor because the base clock speed for the 8260 and 8660 is not 1.2Ghz, its 1.5Ghz . So at 1.5Ghz we should see (very) roughly at least 20% more performance than an A9 at 1Ghz. But,that will technically require an overclock over the "stock" speed, which brings us to the argument of "who can overclock higher" which isn't the original question.