The hardware is capable of putting out the same kind of graphics. It's just that no developer is silly enough to spend $50 million developing a game that will sell for only $5 because no one wants to spend that much.
Yeah right. Not by a long shot. Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader is 10 years old on the gamecube and there is no way any of these piece of crap phones even come close to the graphics on that game. I saw that silly little space game a couple weeks ago. Anyone who thinks that trash is in the same league as even the gamecube has rocks in their head.
Well, the category is 2XX, and the article mentions that the MSM8960 includes the Adreno 225, which they claim is 8X the performance of the Adreno 200. So, that means the 2XX category is a pretty broad spectrum of performance. Comparing the 225 to the Wii might be a bit of a stretch, but maybe not - we'll see.
For me, some of the most interesting articles here are the in-depth architecture articles. It would be nice to have at least one which covers the basics of ARM and maybe to have some which cover the in-depth differences between Qualcomm's processors, a8, a9, and a15.
Original Droid owner here who is eligible to upgrade (with an upgrade credit) in August. Here are some things I'm looking for in a new phone:
LTE/4G on Verizon (my current carrier) Stock Google Experience 4-4.3" phone w/o physical keyboard Aesthetically pleasing, not too bulky
Since it appears Motorola and LG are on the Tegra2 platform, I'm getting a hunch that HTC is going to be going with Qualcomm, especially considering the upcoming Thunderbolt is not a Tegra 2 device.
Since Motorola is intent on locking bootloaders and promoting MotoBlur, I have a feeling I won't see another phone from them with the stock Google experience for a while, and my best bet for that will be with HTC. Since HTC typically has phones I think look great, I'd love for them to put the super-phone together that I want. I like Tegra so far, but if Qualcomm can be competitive with Krait in both performance AND battery life, I'm sold.
maybe you can ask if they power gate the GPU cores. the APQ806 at that speed sounds more like a product for netbooks/notebooks and the timeline somewhat fits.
This timeline will let Qualcom 4 x Cores arive well after the 4C game is over, just like their 1st Dual Core are arriving later this year when DC game will be over. Nice to have everything integrated and consume less, and be ahead on LTE....etc, but if all this arrives FAR TOO LATE, it will miss all Flagship Phones and only play on low value followers. After having won EVERTHING lats year with 1Ghz Snapdragons on the Androïd Flagships (HTC EVO 4G...etc), how can Qualcom accept to Loose everything this year and next and plan for this failure ?
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littvay - Monday, February 14, 2011 - link
Don't know much about hardware or architecture. But the OpenCL support sounds interesting. I wonder if OSX could run on it eventually :)sc3252 - Monday, February 14, 2011 - link
Like the opencl performance will be anything to write home about. I doubt its anything more than a check-box feature that no one will use.sdffds6546 - Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - link
Where do they get off putting a Wii and a PS2 in the same category as icrap 3GS?cjv121 - Wednesday, September 21, 2016 - link
Hii want to know about OpenCL and is their any support in Android 6.0. if not then how can i add support OpenCL in msm8909.
Shadowmaster625 - Monday, February 14, 2011 - link
Where do they get off putting a Wii and a PS2 in the same category as icrap 3GS?dagamer34 - Monday, February 14, 2011 - link
The hardware is capable of putting out the same kind of graphics. It's just that no developer is silly enough to spend $50 million developing a game that will sell for only $5 because no one wants to spend that much.Shadowmaster625 - Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - link
Yeah right. Not by a long shot. Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader is 10 years old on the gamecube and there is no way any of these piece of crap phones even come close to the graphics on that game. I saw that silly little space game a couple weeks ago. Anyone who thinks that trash is in the same league as even the gamecube has rocks in their head.smithg5 - Monday, February 14, 2011 - link
Well, the category is 2XX, and the article mentions that the MSM8960 includes the Adreno 225, which they claim is 8X the performance of the Adreno 200. So, that means the 2XX category is a pretty broad spectrum of performance. Comparing the 225 to the Wii might be a bit of a stretch, but maybe not - we'll see.hajilel - Monday, February 14, 2011 - link
For me, some of the most interesting articles here are the in-depth architecture articles. It would be nice to have at least one which covers the basics of ARM and maybe to have some which cover the in-depth differences between Qualcomm's processors, a8, a9, and a15.bplewis24 - Monday, February 14, 2011 - link
Original Droid owner here who is eligible to upgrade (with an upgrade credit) in August. Here are some things I'm looking for in a new phone:LTE/4G on Verizon (my current carrier)
Stock Google Experience
4-4.3" phone w/o physical keyboard
Aesthetically pleasing, not too bulky
Since it appears Motorola and LG are on the Tegra2 platform, I'm getting a hunch that HTC is going to be going with Qualcomm, especially considering the upcoming Thunderbolt is not a Tegra 2 device.
Since Motorola is intent on locking bootloaders and promoting MotoBlur, I have a feeling I won't see another phone from them with the stock Google experience for a while, and my best bet for that will be with HTC. Since HTC typically has phones I think look great, I'd love for them to put the super-phone together that I want. I like Tegra so far, but if Qualcomm can be competitive with Krait in both performance AND battery life, I'm sold.
Brandon
jjj - Monday, February 14, 2011 - link
maybe you can ask if they power gate the GPU cores.the APQ806 at that speed sounds more like a product for netbooks/notebooks and the timeline somewhat fits.
PAT75014 - Saturday, February 26, 2011 - link
This timeline will let Qualcom 4 x Cores arive well after the 4C game is over, just like their 1st Dual Core are arriving later this year when DC game will be over.Nice to have everything integrated and consume less, and be ahead on LTE....etc, but if all this arrives FAR TOO LATE, it will miss all Flagship Phones and only play on low value followers.
After having won EVERTHING lats year with 1Ghz Snapdragons on the Androïd Flagships (HTC EVO 4G...etc), how can Qualcom accept to Loose everything this year and next and plan for this failure ?
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