Posts: 1370 from 2003/2/15
From: Central Europe
Quote:
JuLieN wrote:
As it has 4 times more threads than the iPad Mini 2; you can see that both CPUs are about as powerful per core, despite the A7 runs at half the speed of the Core i7. This is VERY impressive !
This assumes that the used software provides meaningful data for comparing both processors. This may be a fallacy. Unfortunately, many tools that are widely used to review the performance of desktop processors are not available on mobile platforms which makes it rather difficult to do comprehensive comparisons between mobile and desktop CPUs.
That being said, the performance of smartphones in general is most certainly impressive, especially if you consider that today's high-end phones are roughly ten times faster than their predecessors were a mere 5 years ago (iPhone 3GS vs iPhone 5S, for example).
