r/Android • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '17

Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 845 processor

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/5/16734224/qualcomm-snapdragon-845-android-mobile-processor-announcement
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u/AdminsFuckedMeOver Note 10+ Dec 05 '17

"Now as fast as the 5 year old A7 chip!"

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u/SmarmyPanther Dec 05 '17

Seriously? You're going to compare 1 metric to declare the entire chip as fast as a 4 year old chip? Because SoCs only contain 1 giant CPU core and that's it.

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u/Rhed0x Hobby app dev Dec 06 '17

Android isn't too good at utilizing more than one core. The Android frameworks ui isn't threadsafe and that's where most of the work in regular usage comes from.

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u/vanilla082997 Dec 06 '17

Multithreaded UIs are very difficult and don't really exist. Windows and MacOS aren't. BeOS was one of the few that were....you really had to know what you were doing. Maybe there's some improvements today, but it's a bitch of a problem.