Rumor: Samsung Nexus 11 Will Have Octa-Core SoC

[exfileme]

The Nexus 11 will be the world's first octa-core tablet.

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[slomo4sho]

I like that it finally has SD support!

 

[darkchazz]

I like that it finally has SD support!

The Galaxy Tab will have MicroSD support, not the Nexus.
....

Anyway, I skipped the Nexus 10, but I may get this device if there's a clear improvement in gpu performance and battery life.
And hopefully the extra inch won't mean bigger dimensions, but instead less of the huge bezels in the current Nexus 10.

 

[slomo4sho]

I like that it finally has SD support!

The Galaxy Tab will have MicroSD support, not the Nexus.

a possible microSD card supporting up to 64 GB of storage

The article rumors support for it.

 

[ikyung]

8 cores? for what exactly? Oh that's right...to suck the battery dry nothing more.

Too hard to understand big little architecture from ARM.

 

[pacomac]

8 cores? for what exactly? Oh that's right...to suck the battery dry nothing more.

I'm guessing only our cores will be active at and one time. The A15 cores for normal operation and the A9 for lower power consumption and standby.

I do like the fact that Google realises people out there would like bigger than 10" screens.

 

[cozmium]

I'd love a reason to upgrade my original GT 10.1 as it's a bit slow.... but please Samsung: quality screens with good contrast/saturation matter. The original 10.1 is still your best quality screen.

 

[torbendalum]

STOP CALLING THE Exynos 5410, Octa-Core SoC IT IS NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
its a dual quad core SoC and it works very different.

 

[somebodyspecial]

So this won't be any better perf wise than the nexus 10? To push 2560x1600 they need more gpu than nexus 10 has or what is the point in the next rev? 1in?
From the link Google hasn't approved the 11in octa yet. So that's just a bid that is anyone's game. I really hope they tell them give more gpu or we'll go T4 etc. That tablet needs T4+ (which is about 25% better than T604 it seems). I guess you could maybe put A330 in there if it's clocked high enough. Google needs to refuse anything that can't beat T604 in the nexus 10 by 25% or more or the games won't get any better on it. Currently only SOME stuff is good on it, others are underpowered.
I can't wait for all the benchmarks on these.

 

[Memnarchon]

Am I the only one that doesn't see 8 cores, but only 4 cores for high performance and 4 cores for better battery consumption that will never work all togehter as the supposed 8-core would work (like FX8350)? It's like saying that Tegra 3 is 5 core cause it has 4 cores for high performance + 1 companion core for better battery consumption....

 

[hotice]

False Advertising!!!! It's not an eight-core processor. It's two four-core processors that cannot run in parallel. There are four low-power (slot) cores and four high-power (fast) cores. It's just another way to try to manage power. Qualcomm quad-core processors may only have four cores but they're all fast and it can run on any number of them needed. The Tegra 3 has 5 cores but one is a low power core so it runs on four fast cores or one slower, lower power core. The "octa-core" processor is nothing to brag about. It's just another way of handling power management. If everyone is going to keep calling it an eight-core processor people better start calling the Tegra 3 a five-core processor. Even that is miss-leading since the five cores do not run in parallel.