Samsung Galaxy S4 Benchmark Confirms Eight Cores

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[citation][nom]whiteodian[/nom]....and has an amazing 23 minutes of battery time. Seriously, do consumers really need that many cores?[/citation]

Probably will increase battery life. Going from a dual core to a quad core made a tremendous difference in web browsing. My Xoom and Bionic seem like slugs after playing with my wife's note II. This will probably be my next phone if it comes to Verizon.
 
U dont need 2/4/6/8 cores for only one app or software at most of the time, what makes that better is the multitasking. We cant compares a false multitask SO like iOS/WP with a pure multitask Android or Windows 8/RT, if 2 cores is enough to run 1 or 2 apps open the same can not be said about running multiple background and active apps in Android.

With my single Cortex A8 1ghz and 512mb ram Android I'm can run Facebook app, browser, multichat IM service app, hotmail app, k9 app in background and active while playing a game.
The main difference is with a 4 core when I "alt tab" between apps that would be a lot faster, and in that case when I use the main Corte A15 cores for the game and the 4 Cortex A7 for the background apps with less CPU occupation.
 
I'm going to love having to keep ice on this thing to keep it form overheating. a 5 inch AMOLED screen and 8 cores? That's bound to draw some mad battery life at one time, and thus, more heat.
 
[citation][nom]shikamaru31789[/nom]If you guys need an editor I'll gladly take the job.[/citation]

Even the editors are now afraid of zak islam
 
[citation][nom]adgjlsfhk[/nom]To me it would seem that two 4 core cpu's would be one 8 core.[/citation]

They are not used at the same time to run one app. See ARM's reference big.LITTLE technology:

www.arm.com/files/downloads/big.LITTLE_Final.pdf

1.8 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 and 1.2 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 (ARM big.LITTLE)

[citation][nom]Ab0rt0[/nom]Everybody here seems rather confused about this design, it has been stated time and time again that this SoC uses four pairs of one powerful A15 core and one efficient A7 core. Each pair can only run the A7 or A15 core at one time.[/citation]

Anandtech says otherwise unless they are lying or plainly uninformed: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6602/samsung-announces-exynos-5-octa-soc-4-cortex-a7s-4-cortex-a15s

This new SoC combines four ARM Cortex A15s and four ARM Cortex A7s, which is pretty much ARM's exact big.LITTLE reference design designed to enable either context hotplugging between the lower power, lower performance A7s and the higher power, higher performance A15s.
Click to expand...

Also:

Exynos 5 Octa: 1.8 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 and 1.2 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 (ARM big.LITTLE)
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You might be the one confused.
 
[citation][nom]soldier2013[/nom]Waiting on Galaxy Note 3 news with its 6.3 inch screen, 8 core cpu, 1920 x 1080p screen to die for. My Note 1 is becoming old news now.[/citation]
What about after that then? Are you gonna get the Note 4 with a 7" screen size? Just save yourself the time and get a tablet now instead of getting incremental upgrade sizes and say "your used to the new size"
 
[citation][nom]steamroller16[/nom]I would like to see flagship phones with smaller screens.[/citation]
That would be called an iPhone. Some of us aren't into small screens.
 
This might be useless for now , but it opens roads to future mobile technology. I mean i would gladly buy a phone that i can install Premiere Pro on it, go somewhere connect it to a wifi TV and start editing something, is like your own mini workstation in a pocket. Of course S4 would probably be too weak for a full version of premiere but the future is out there. Remember they had only 64 KB ram computers to go to the moon , now we have 16 GB cellphones to photograph food and post on instagram.
 
[citation][nom]CaedenV[/nom]so what software uses 8 cores?I mean seriously! I have an i7 in my PC and there are very few times that I actually have a load on all 8 cores, and typically it is only on 2-4 of them. The reason? Most software is not complicated enough to require more than 4 cores. In fact, most software uses a grand 1 core because oporations typically need to be done in order, so you can only do things 1 at a time.Multi-tasking perhaps? Well, as previously stated, on my PC, where I multitask all of the time, I am not normally using more than 4 cores... if I am running that kind of load on my phone then there is something seriously wrong.big.LITTLE perhaps? Well, maybe, but I thought the way that worked it would still only show up as a quad core device, and just switch between the little and the big cores depending on workload. That is the only practical workload I can think of for anything more than a quad core on a phone... and even then I think that nVidia's approach of have a single little core for small workloads, and 4 larger cores for big workloads seems like more of a better solution for phones.[/citation]
It IS Big.Little. AnTuTu, i believe, only reports official specs, or since the phone isn't out, are doing that. Samsung's marketing it as 8-core, and they've wrotten that. Also, we've been telling Zak the technically impared duck for what seems like a f***ing decade now that it's a 4+4, so this story is to prove us wrong, i presume.
[citation][nom]Ab0rt0[/nom]Everybody here seems rather confused about this design, it has been stated time and time again that this SoC uses four pairs of one powerful A15 core and one efficient A7 core. Each pair can only run the A7 or A15 core at one time. No more than four cores are ever in use at one time.For all the people claiming it will have terrible battery life or that no one needs 8 cores you are missing the point of the design. This SoC will have as much power as all the other quadcore A15 designs like Tegra 4 while having much better battery life under most situations. It offers the best of both worlds.[/citation]
Not most people, just Zak. I've written something similar to what you have at least 4 times in the last month.
 
[citation][nom]jakes69[/nom]only for android that you need that kind of power...every other OSs run just fine with 2 core.[/citation]

I am trying to think of how you could have made that post any stupider, or more incorrect, but can't.
 
What I really want to see come review time, is an endurance comparison between this phone, and some other snapdragon (4 core) phone with a similiarly sized screen (if one exists). I am really curious about battery life (like most of us), but also how much having those extra cores really matters.
 
[citation][nom]JOSHSKORN[/nom]That would be called an iPhone. Some of us aren't into small screens.[/citation]
yeah, but all of us can't handle a huge screen...For me the Lumia 800 (3.7") is the perfect size, sadly the new 820 is 4.3 inches.

And the iPhone is too expensive, and a lot of us aren't into iphones... :|
 
Just read on www.samsungalaxys4.org that there will be different versions in Europe. some will have the octa processor but others will not.
 
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