As everyone knows, the international HTC One X has the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor and to make things work with LTE, they created the HTC One XL that is essentially the same phone, but with the dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4. This is essentially what is available on AT&T, but marketed as the One X, a little confusing I know. Now Samsung did the same thing with their Galaxy S III.
I've noticed two models of the Galaxy S III exist:
Model #1:
SoC - Samsung Exynos 4 Quad
CPU - 1.4 GHz quad-core Cortex-A9
GPU - Mali-400 MP
RAM - 1 GB RAM (international)
Model #2:
SoC - Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8960
CPU - 1.5 GHz dual-core Krait
GPU - Adreno 225
RAM - 2 GB RAM (NA, KR, AU, JP)
Which model is better?
I live in the UK - which model will I get?
I'm hoping the answer is that
Yesterday at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Samsung showed their new Exynos chip, which can come in dual-core and quad-core configurations. Frequencies range from 200 MHz to 1.5 GHz, and it’s 32nm part, which is down from 45nm with the previous chip.
For those of you who think that dual-core is so last year then have I story for you. The video we have here shows the TI dual-core OMAP 5 application processor for mobile devices outpacing the quad-core Tegra 3 processor from Nvidia. For those that don’t know the OMAP 5 sports ARM’s new and improved Cortex-A15 CPU design.
The Ampe A10 quad core Tablet PC is the first 10.1" IPS Quad Core tablet running Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang confirmed his company is building quad-core Tegra 3 processors for new Nexus tablets or smartphones running the upcoming Android & Ice Cream Sandwich& operating system. Meanwhile, a Tegra 2-based Motorola Droid X2 is coming to Verizon May 26, followed later by a Droid 3 that switches to Texas Instruments' dual-core Cortex-A9 OMAP4430, according to industry reports....
Last year with the galaxy S III the us version came with a dual core processor. International version had quad. We were told because the quad core doesn't work with LTE.
Then the Korean market gets the phone and guess what? LTE works and they also got the 2 gb ram. The ONLY version that should have been released.
Now the international version gets 8 CORES!
We finally got some official news surrounding the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2‘s availability, and whether or not it will come equipped with a dual-core or quad-core processor. When we first heard about the new slate from Samsung we couldn’t help but think that is wasn’t a very big improvement over the original Galaxy Tab 10.1, sporting only a 1GHz dual-core processor.
If the latter part of 2012 was about 5 inch dual core smartphones, it's going to be quad core handsets with HD displays in the first half of 2013.
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