LG admits initial Snapdragon 810 issues, says they are fixed now
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- 30 Jan 2015
AnonD-147377, 29 Jan 2015LG step from your high horse and put Exynos in your flagshi... moreHello,
It is manufactured by its arch Android rival,
They won't allow it
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- 30 Jan 2015
Anonymous, 30 Jan 2015It has nothing to do with it being 64 bit. Qualcomm botched... moreI hadn't heard about issue's regarding the memory controller, that's interesting.
It does provides more evidence to suggest that this whole current gen of '64-bit' Snapdragon's are a rushed, half backed reaction to Apple's going 64-bit.
I think we'll really start to see Qualcomm fight back once the 'Taipan' core is ready, and once it is in production my bet is you'll see that the current 'Cortex' based chipsets get retired very quickly (at least in the high end Soc's)
By all accounts however 'Taipan' is still some way off. Qualcomm should hope that not too much damage is done to their reputation in the mean time.
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- 30 Jan 2015
AnonD-185330, 29 Jan 2015Apple had no problems in 2013with their 64 bit chip; but qu... moreIt has nothing to do with it being 64 bit. Qualcomm botched the design of the chip generally, and the memory controller specifically. Consequently, it overheats (just like the 610 and 615) so they've had to reduce the clock rate. The memory controller isn't fixed though, so you'll see massively lower performance numbers for the 810 in multi-threaded tasks than either Mediatek or Samsung's A57 chips ... both due to the memory controller issue and lower clocks due to overheating.
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- 30 Jan 2015
Considering the G3's performance, I don't think LG's definition of something having "no issues" matches the rest of the world's.
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- 30 Jan 2015
Anonymous, 30 Jan 2015LG, it's your chance to dethrone the Galaxy S!! How so? The Exynos will be superior.
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- 30 Jan 2015
LG, it's your chance to dethrone the Galaxy S!!
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- 30 Jan 2015
vice phone ever--:-)
i like it
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- 29 Jan 2015
AnonD-356176, 29 Jan 2015They "resolved" the heating issue by implementing... moreYeah, I'm almost posative they just nerfed the 810. This doesn't sound good.
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- 29 Jan 2015
Apple had no problems in 2013with their 64 bit chip; but qualcomm has problems in 2015.
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Anonymous, 29 Jan 2015I'm not sure 14nm will help, they will just raise the frequ... moreyes but then they would have the same problem, how do you think they would fix it? the only way i can see is thermal throttling. but since 14nm probably makes less hea tthey dont have to throttle as much. so it ends up having more power.
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- 29 Jan 2015
LG step from your high horse and put Exynos in your flagship phone.
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- 29 Jan 2015
AnonD-356176, 29 Jan 2015They "resolved" the heating issue by implementing... moreI'm not sure 14nm will help, they will just raise the frequenc (Without any real need, of course) and they will heat up as much as 810. They only care about benchmarks
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- 29 Jan 2015
They "resolved" the heating issue by implementing heavy throttling.
PASS
Will wait 6 months for 14nm SoC's.
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- 29 Jan 2015
exynos all the way!!
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- 29 Jan 2015
Fix is probably lowering the CPU and GPU clocks and thus the performance. I'd rather take 14nm Exynos.
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- 29 Jan 2015
What I would REALLY like to eagerly know is how they fixed it. There's a very simple way to fix overheating issues: Thermal throttling. So they could basically just have dumbed down the processor power to say, Snapdragon 805 level. that's what I'm concerned about. they sell you a device with Snapdragon 810 but in reality it may be just as fast as a 805. Or even worse, maybe it IS as fast as it was supposed to be but that would only last for a few seconds until critical temperature is reached, where the performance drops.
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- 29 Jan 2015
Ale, 29 Jan 2015Good Point.
My most recent experience with an Exynos chi... moreThere's also the following video which shows the Exynos variant of the Note 4 being more stable:
http://youtu.be/83Hkb3FAncc
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- 29 Jan 2015
Akira, 29 Jan 2015In a way, the basic Samsung chipset has already proven itse... moreGood Point.
My most recent experience with an Exynos chipset was having briefly owned a Galaxy Alpha, Which could at times get plenty warm itself (granted this was using the previous gen A15/A7 combination) I parted with it mainly due to the inadequate sized battery and resulting poor battery life
I have not read much reporting on the performance of the Exynos version of the Note 4, but will have a look at the article you have linked to, Thank you.
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Ale, 29 Jan 2015TDP limits and power consumption concerns with stock ARM de... moreIn a way, the basic Samsung chipset has already proven itself in the Note 4 (at lesser clockspeeds, but also at 20nm). Where it turns out to be more stable than the 805 Krait.
http://www.gamebench.net/blog/samsung-galaxy-note-4-beats-every-other-phone-asphalt-8
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- 29 Jan 2015
TDP limits and power consumption concerns with stock ARM designs are a big part of why Qualcomm designed their own architectures in the first place (Scorpion/Krait)
The new generation chipsets (808/810) are a knee jerk reaction to Apple's taking things to the 64-bit level ahead of estimated time frames.
As such the Qualcomm have not had time to develop the 64-bit successor to Krait (Taipan I believe it’s called) and is looking to stock ARM A53/A57 cores to plug the gap, it's no wonder they are a little out of their comfort zone and these new chipsets are showing teething problems as a result.
Good of LG to finally admit there is an issue, we’ll just have to see if it has been rectified.
One last thing though, if the rumours are true that Samsung have ditched the 810 if favour of their own Exynos chipset for the upcoming S6, we’ll have to see how they get around these heating issues as the new Exynos is also using an A53/A57 set up (though one would think a move to the new 14nm ‘FinFet’ process may help in this regard)