Yes but the task manager will push processes to the dsp cores to offset the BIG power hungry cores.
And just thinking about it I don't think I've ever seen Samsung or any other company market 8 cores.Samsung used quad cores and 8 cores on the same model phone in different markets and they knew well not to brag or talk much about there 8 core version phones.
And why are you saying the a9 is a better architecture? Because it has higher ipc on single core? Last time I checked more cores when pushed all at once can dominate the a9 and that's last years 8 core designs. -
Instruction per clock is way more important than smaller cores. See AMD's Bulldozer(yeah yeah there were other reasons for its failure)
Apple went fat cores for max instructions per clock at the cost of not being able to clock them as fast as other designs.-
Eh, if someone ever overclocks the A9 it would OC like a beast. Have you seen its sustained workload condition? Doesn't throttle once. That indicates that the A9 has way more potential than you think.
Sammy and Qualcomm went smaller cores that can make ground with higher clocks and higher core counts. -
Desperately I might add. Qualcomm didn't have a choice though.
Android has no problem using all 8 cores and spreads its tasks across all the cores efficiently. Comparing apple single core performance is like putting a v8 on a dyno and then unplugging 4 spark plugs and seeing how much power the car puts down. -
You're right that Android can scale well with more cores but not all tasks can possibly be handled by all cores.
In multi threads the 8 cores chips still dominate -
Barely I might add. They get crushed in single core and barely hold their lead with multicore.
Here is the full potential of a note 5 with Samsung's full speed bins unlocked and running at 2.4ghz.I broke 6500 geekbench lol
