Thursday 20 December, 2012

Android Processor Quests : Quad Core vs Dual Core

Now the technology is rushing so fast that it becomes true to say "Had I waited for a couple of weeks I could have got much better of the same price!!"
But this is the tech world!!
It is constantly being upgraded, updated and outdated and since then along with the Operating System that is the software and the processors that is the hardware are again running alone!!
But recently it has been seen that Microprocessor developing companies have increased to a faster pace then OSes.
In this run the Quad core has come in to hustle on the launch of androids like the self made Huawei Ascend D Quad, it's first quad core android phone and then the launch of the Mediatek giant MT6589!
Now it all looks so mouth watering to a tech savvy! Just seeing it's performance and the things it can handle 14mp camera hspa and other things but does it really seem to move to it so fast!!
Well think on your behalf!
Now here's the real scene!
Jelly Bean- it seems to be optimized for a quad core but what about the applications, the day to day applications need not to be run on 4 cores to do processing, two will do the job!!
The developers, they will have to optimize their apps to use all the 4 cores to exploit the maximum from the processor!!
But it isn't needed in reality!! Of course, you will feel the snappiness and the fast processing but that won't seem quite different or stand out of the queue performance!
There will be difference for sure and if you see the benchmarks you will be overwhelmed, just see for instance the above quadrant specs!! And say "Oh Wowie!!" but use the phones and then compare it with a standard dual core!! Hardly you will notice any difference!!
But again this is a question of luxury, the quad core devices will definitely cost you more on just the onset of the launch but later the price will definitely go down!!
But with it the dual core will also come a bit down!!
So my suggestions for average to hardcore users if you are going to buy a phone up here in the beginning of the Evolution from 2 cores to 4, then wait for a while so that new features totally optimized and stable come up!!
Otherwise the 4 cores as of now will be Juice sucking power hungry demon on the Lithium of your battery!! Where the two cores can definitely be felt a difference from that of a single core in every aspect!! Let us do some tests, reviews and benchmarks, user experience, only then drop into the new things!
So don't be in a hurry! Wait for the best!!
Hey, what you say??

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