So what does everyone think of Tegra 4?

[droidmyme]

The Octa uses its cores in a completely different, and much more advanced way than nvidias companion core. It is literally a processor within a processor and has a huge amount of flexibility in how they're used. The companion core is inflexible in comparison.

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Lol. You make yourself look ignorant by talking nonsense. Clearly you have your facts wrong.

The fact is Octa is going to use it's processing cores in largely the same way as any other chip under the big.LITTLE plan. The more powerful cores handle bigger tasks, and when the OS signals it's using less power, the load is switched to the smaller cores. It's the same basic concept everywhere. Heterogeneous multiprocessing. Samsung is not doing anything revolutionary. They are using four Cortex A15 cores and four Cortex A7 cores to make the Octa. That's it dude.

Like Kevin says, the only difference is the Tegra uses lower clocked A15 cores for it's little cores. Read up a little before you make wild conjectures.

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[Kevin OQuinn]

Lol. You make yourself look ignorant by talking nonsense. Clearly you have your facts wrong.

The fact is Octa is going to use it's processing cores in largely the same way as any other chip under the big.LITTLE plan. The more powerful cores handle bigger tasks, and when the OS signals it's using less power, the load is switched to the smaller cores. It's the same basic concept everywhere. Heterogeneous multiprocessing. Samsung is not doing anything revolutionary. They are using four Cortex A15 cores and four Cortex A7 cores to make the Octa. That's it dude.

Like Kevin says, the only difference is the Tegra uses lower clocked A15 cores for it's little cores. Read up a little before you make wild conjectures.

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Thanks for repeating me. I was more polite.

 

[droidmyme]

Thanks for repeating me. I was more polite.

I'm more rude. 'Spose that's why I'll never be a mod- I don't have the patience to deal with certain types of folks. Mainly people who repeatedly insist their point of view is right after multiple attempts to politely correct them have already been made. Meh.

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[Kevin OQuinn]

I'm more rude. 'Spose that's why I'll never be a mod- I don't have the patience to deal with certain types of folks. Mainly people who repeatedly insist their point of view is right after multiple attempts to politely correct them have already been made. Meh.

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No one forces you to reply. Your rudeness and lack of patience for "certain types of folks" could be considered flaming.

This thread needs to get back on topic. I was enjoying it.

Overall I think the Octa and Tegra 4 are great next-gen chips with one major exception, the GPU. The GPU in the Octa just isn't up to snuff for what's supposed to be a flagship processor that will undoubtedly power Samsung's next line of flagship phones. While it's no slouch, I'm sure, it's not at the same level as what nVidia is doing (this is all based on what we know, and obviously we have no examples of real world scenarios for the Octa). We can see the benefit of the GPU nVidia built in the videos they are doing demonstrating the prowess of the Tegra 4 in Project Shield. It looks impressive. Unfortunately I didn't get to personally play with one, but everyone I've talked to has said it's just as impressive as they're making it out to be.

I just wish that Samsung, with all their money and R&D, could do something more with all the power of the Octa besides running Touchwiz. It's such a waste.

 

[AndroidS3]

Originally tegra 4 was meant to be released last year, but apparently it had design flaws therefore it was put back until 2013. Nvidia definitely designed it first l

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