A feature of mobile processors is their ability to operate on a single battery with minimal heating of the case. But it often happens that the chip shows high performance, but drains the battery very quickly. Conversely, performance can be slightly lower, but energy efficiency is increased. Therefore, it is not always relevant to judge the advantage of one chip over another. Mobile processors are built on a multi-core architecture. Having more cores increases the number of tasks performed simultaneously, subject to software optimization.
Unlocks the top 10 mobile processors in terms of performance. The quad-core chip is designed for tablets running Android and Windows. The Z3775D belongs to the Bay Trail-T family. With a quad-core processor clocked at 1.46 to 2.39 GHz, the Z3775 is significantly faster than the previous Intel Atom processor, the Z2760.
The ninth place was taken by a quad-core processor with a frequency of 1.46-2.39 GHz Intel Atom Z 3775, designed for smartphones. The optimized 22nm P1271 process with tri-gate transistors is faster and more energy efficient than the previous Atom Z 2770.
Quad-core mobile processor for tablets and smartphones running on Anroid and Windows Intel Atom Z 3785 ranked eighth in terms of performance. The SoC, clocked at 1.49 to 2.41 GHz, is built on a portion of the Bay Trail-T platform. Thanks to the optimized 22nm process, combined with tri-gate transistors, performance and energy savings are improved over the previous generation. Processor cores based on Silvermont architecture show 50% higher performance due to the use of the pipeline, optimization of the branch prediction engine, expanding decoders and increasing the buffer.
In sixth place is the processor designed for Windows and Android tablets, Intel Atom Z 3795... The quad-core chip operates at a frequency of 1.59 to 2.39 GHz. An optimized 22nm process processor using Tri-Gate transistors improves performance and reduces power consumption over the previous Atom series. The performance of the Z 3795 is mainly designed to work with an office application and a browser, so it will not be enough for resource-intensive tasks.
Mobile processor specially designed for Android tablet devices and smartphones has 6 processor cores, Adreno 418 graphics card with 2 × 32-bit memory controller LPDDR3-1866, Bluetooth 4.1, UMTS and LTE. Based on ARM big.LITTLE, which combines different processor cores for the optimal combination of performance and power consumption, the 808 MSM 8992 combines two fast Cortex-A57 cores with clock speeds up to 2 GHz, with 30% faster performance than the previous processor in the series ...
Fast eight-core processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 MSM 8994 designed for tablets and smartphones, manufactured using a 28nm process technology. It uses two groups of 64-bit computing cores with the Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 architecture. All Snapdragon 810 cores can work simultaneously if required. There is an Adreno 430 graphics accelerator, a dual-channel LPDDR4 memory controller, Wi-Fi (802.11ac + MIMO), Bluetooth 4.1, 3G and LTE modules. The Adreno 430 accelerator is capable of handling all games in Full-HD resolution and above.
Mobile processor Intel Atom x 7-Z 8700 Introduced in 2015, it uses four Cherry Trail compute cores. Compared to earlier processors from this series, the new Intel Atom x 7-Z 8700 has a number of undeniable advantages. A well-tuned architecture, 14nm process technology with a clock speed of 2.4 GHz allows for high performance while maintaining low heat generation. This includes an LPDDR3-1600 memory controller and an HD Graphics (Cherry Trail) graphics adapter that supports DirectX 11.2 and uses 16 computing units (shaders) with a frequency of 600 MHz. The Atom x 7-Z 8700 can be used for laptops and tablets as well as smartphones.
In third place in the list is a 64-bit dual-core ARM microprocessor with architecture ARMv8 Apple A 9... It is manufactured using the 14nm FinFET process technology. The A9 chip, which is a 2-core SoC, with a frequency of 1.8 GHz, received a performance increase of up to 70% in general and about 90% in graphics compared to the previous generation of chips (Apple A8). The power consumption of the chip has been reduced by 35% and its size has been reduced by 15%.
In second place is Samsung Exynos 7420 Octa... The mobile processor was introduced in 2015 with the Samsung Galaxy S6 device. The 7420 Octa uses eight processing cores according to the big.LITTLE architecture. The overall performance is good enough to be compared to Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 or Nvidia's Tegra K1. Manufacturing according to the norms of a 14-nanometer technological process also allows to reduce energy consumption against the background of earlier developments (20 nm or 28 nm). As a complete system-on-a-chip (SoC), the Exynos 7420 Octa also employs many additional components, including the ARM Mali-T760 MP8 graphics accelerator, LPDDR4 fast memory controller and various communication modules.
Apple A 9X from Apple tops the list of the best mobile processors. It is manufactured using the 16nm FinFET process at TSMC factories. The "Twister" processor core is the third generation of 64-bit ARM cores that operate at frequencies up to 2.26 GHz. Compared to the Apple A8X chip, the memory bandwidth has been doubled. According to Apple, the new chip has 1.8 times higher productivity in office tasks than the A8X used in the iPad Air 2. According to Chipworks, the chip area is 147 mm2. Built-in 3D accelerator PowerVR Series7 with 12 clusters is used. LPDDR4 memory is connected to the system via a 128-bit bus, the total bandwidth is estimated at 51.2 GB / s. The chip contains an M9 coprocessor for processing data from sensors.
