How Sony's Just-Announced Xperia Z4 Compares To The Xperia Z3

[Guest]

Sony announced its new flagship device, the Xperia Z4, in Japan. The device will arrive in two months but will only have small improvements over the Xperia Z3.

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[Xenophage]

Hey Lucian, just to correct you there: The *clock speed* has increased almost 4,000 times, but performance is dramatically higher still. The 4004 was a 4-bit chip capable of 0.092 MIPS, and an i7 980x is rated for 79.9 GFLOPS. That's over 85,000 times the performance! And that's just comparing instructions-per-second, but there are plenty of other factors to consider if you're speaking broadly about performance, like memory throughput and floating point precision.

 

[Xenophage]

Oops, my math was off in that last post. An i7 980x at 79.9 GFLOPS is actually 858,705 times the performance of an Intel 4004 CPU.

SO YEAH.

 

[Xenophage]

How do I delete my idiotic posts? I just realize I was compared MIPS to FLOPS.

 

[Xenophage]

Okay, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second the i7 5960x is capable of 298,190 MIPS, which is 3,241,195 times faster than a 4004.

 

[geof2001]

You do also realize you are posting your comments to the Sony Xperia Z4 article below the Moore's law one.

 

[Xenophage]

Oh my god. Just ban me.

 

[knightofzeal]

I just hope that Sony will put out a Z4 compact version just like they did with the Z3. All and all very happy with my change from an iphone 5s. I like the look Sony puts out and hope to see them keep improving. Time to start saving.

 

[scolaner]

Oh my god. Just ban me.

Ha ha, no worries mate, it happens. We appreciate that you're reading and engaging--

 

[kniped]

Compared to the 4004, the first microprocessor developed by Intel in 1971, a modern 22nm processor has over 4,000 times the performance.

This number is off by several orders of magnitude. Using the table on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second
The latest Intel I7 has roughly 3,241,195 times (that's 3.2 million, not thousand) the performance of the 4004 judged on instructions per second.

 

[CaptainTom]

That "aging" design theme is still the most attractive phone design on the market, and it is waterproof.

I honestly don't know what else you could want in a phone.

 

[demonkoryu]

How do I delete my idiotic posts? I just realize I was compared MIPS to FLOPS.

I dont't think the 4004 was capable of floating point maths; anyway, I think it still serves to illustrate the difference.

 

[belardo]

Go to the full text mode, you can edit your posts.