Processor?

[gTen]

Originally Posted by geekdaddy

It's important to distinguish between cpu performance and graphics performance. The qualcomm and samsung processor SoC's have a general purpose CPU and a dedicated graphics engine. In general...

1. Qualcomm's snapdragon cpu at 1GHz is faster than Samsung's Hummingbird.

No..its not..the Hummingbird clock for clock if definitely faster then a 1st gen snapdragon and around equal clock for clock with a 2nd gen in terms of raw CPU...

2. The Shift uses an 800MHz version of Snapdragon. Probably a little slower.

Even at 800mhz its on par with a 1st gen 1ghz snapdragon cpu wise..

3. The Samsung graphics engine is the Power 540. The fastest currently shipping on an SoC.

ok..

4. The Qualcomm graphics engine on Evo is Adreno 200. Shift uses new 205.

Yes...

5. The Adreno 205 is much faster (4x) vs 200 and almost as fast as the 540. It also has dedicated HW decode for Flash.

4x is pushing it.. its 2x around...and for the record the Hummingbird is 2x more powerful then the Adreno 205 GPU...Adreno dither things at 16bit..while Hummingbird is doing things at 24bit..if you benchmark using both dithering at 16bit you will see the hummingbird eat the Adreno 205 for breakfast..