The Acer Predator 6 and Predator 8 are new beastly devices aimed at gamers
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- NICKNAME
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- 02 Jan 2016
Battery Capacity 2900 mAh this is nice but not many for 2016!
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- Anonymous
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- 14 Oct 2015
Anonymous, 24 Sep 2015This phone has a DECA-core CPU, that is truly amazing, espe... moreDifferent cores, different power. This isn't an apt comparison at all.
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- Anonymous
- uwW
- 24 Sep 2015
Anonymous, 24 Sep 2015This phone has a DECA-core CPU, that is truly amazing, espe... moreDesktop processors use x86 processors you know, this is just ARM, and all 10 cores won't work simultaneously, nvidia had a pentacore processor which was slower than the dual core processor from snapdragon..
I am still not sure if android can benefit from increased core count yet..
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- Anonymous
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- 24 Sep 2015
mas39, 18 Sep 2015Nothing exciting about any of Acer's products, probably won... moreThis phone has a DECA-core CPU, that is truly amazing, especially considering that the cheapest desktop 10 core CPU costs $1500
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- AnonD-443793
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- 23 Sep 2015
And how about the battery?
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- mas39
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- 18 Sep 2015
Nothing exciting about any of Acer's products, probably won't work either, can't beat my Sony Z Ultra and once March arrives we shall have the Z5 Ultra with 4k display, s820 chip and 4gb ram, sorry but can't beat that combination.
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- 08 Sep 2015
I have the flex 2. And from the specs I have seen and from the ifa unveiling. This predator 6 is a freaking beast of a phone. I don't care what carrier has it I am going to get it. I have sprint. I am under No contract. So where ever that phone is I am too.
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- Anonymous
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- 03 Sep 2015
zac89, 03 Sep 2015No I understan this now... In Exinos 7420 MaliT760 has tota... moreThat's still only a bit behind and with better efficiency. Plus stronger cpu cores.
You can't measure total actual performance just by flops
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- viveksubhash
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- 03 Sep 2015
How is acer predator lineup a few months old?? Its been there for atleast 7yrs now.. Although arguably not very active
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- 03 Sep 2015
I bought last year's Acer tablet: The Iconia Tab 8 A1-840FHD. With an Intel CPU and slightly lower overall specs than the Predator 8, it's more than enough powerful device, and to me, incredibly awesome. It executes everything I throw at it with speed and fluidity without any bugs. And I had already owned the previous one (The Iconia Tab A1-810 7.9") wich I liked although the screen was a little bit dark and the tiny speaker isn't loud. The A1-840FHD improved everything wrong with the A1-810. Be careful though, some people reported that their tablet came DOA. I can't imagine how superb the Predator 8 must be.
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- 03 Sep 2015
Just buy a shield tablet and be done with it...
Cheap, fast & features that are no where else.
The recall only effected batteries and I know have 2 shield tablets so they can do that as many time as they want :)
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- 03 Sep 2015
TylerGrunter, 03 Sep 2015Don't get it wrong either, the MaliT880MP4 can pack quite s... moreSame thing... I came from Snapdragon 800 + Adreno330 in Sony Z Ultra (which worked fine) to Mate 7 with Kirin925 + 628mp4... (I like them big as you can see haha) Sony didn't lag... I thought of Nexus 6. I doubt it can have any lag with 805@2,7ghz clock + Ad420 and stock android? I like what samsung is doing with Exinos, but I don't really like Touchwizz and they dont have 6" device with 7420. Kirin 930 and 935 have same lousy gpu as 925... Sony made 6" C5 Ultra with mid renge MTK cpu and gpu... Snappdragon 820 won't see light of day in any device for 5 or 6 more months. And I don't like Snapdragon 808 and 810. I have feeling that devices with Snapdragon 800-805 are much snappier and faster when switching apps and brawsing and in general ussage than those with 810... Maybe I'm crazy but it freaks me out totally... Lousy year for shopping smartphones if you ask me.
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- 03 Sep 2015
zac89, 03 Sep 2015Same thing... I came from Snapdragon 800 + Adreno330 in Son... moreIt's not your imagination, some sites demonstrated that SD805 was faster than the SD810 in many cases, mostly after some usage when the throttling started.
SD808 should be OK, but it is marginally better than SD805, so no much point to buy.
Lousy year to buy a smartphone as you said.
Next year looks very promising though, with TSMC and Samsung ramping up the 14nm/16nm processors.
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- Anonymous
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- 03 Sep 2015
zac89, 03 Sep 2015Same thing... I came from Snapdragon 800 + Adreno330 in Son... moreIt all goes down to one person; Qualcomm. That company is the main reason all the smartphone this year are terrible. All their latest Snapdragon chip couldn't perform well at all. I blame Qualcomm for the whole mobile tech industry. I woukd sue them if I were a big company with decreasing sales.
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- 03 Sep 2015
TylerGrunter, 03 Sep 2015Don't get it wrong either, the MaliT880MP4 can pack quite s... moreSame thing... I came from Snapdragon 800 + Adreno330 in Sony Z Ultra (which worked fine) to Mate 7 with Kirin925 + 628mp4... (I like them big as you can see haha) Sony didn't lag... I thought of Nexus 6. I doubt it can have any lag with 805@2,7ghz clock + Ad420 and stock android? I like what samsung is doing with Exinos, but I don't really like Touchwizz and they dont have 6" device with 7420. Kirin 930 and 935 have same lousy gpu as 925... Sony made 6" C5 Ultra with mid renge MTK cpu and gpu... Snappdragon 820 won't see light of day in any device for 5 or 6 more months. And I don't like Snapdragon 808 and 810. I have feeling that devices with Snapdragon 800-805 are much snappier and faster when switching apps and brawsing and in general ussage than those with 810... Maybe I'm crazy but it freaks me out totally... Lousy year for shopping smartphones if you ask me.
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- TylerGrunter
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- 03 Sep 2015
zac89, 03 Sep 2015I am using Huawei Ascend Mate 7 at the moment, and I am fre... moreDon't get it wrong either, the MaliT880MP4 can pack quite some power, it just won't be as powerful as Exynos7420 or SD810 in the GPU front.
But I doubt it will lag, it is just more a question of having something future proof and not to have to downgrade quality of games that are GPU taxing (as I have to do in my Nexus 5 already).
I'm also shopping fora new phone! But I don't find anything I like right now, so I'll probably wait for the new set of upcoming SoCs: ExynosXXXX, Huawei Kirin 940/950 (don't buy anything less than those!), Mediatek X20/X30 or SD820.
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- 03 Sep 2015
I am using Huawei Ascend Mate 7 at the moment, and I am freaked out by gpu MaliT628mp4 and cpu kirin925 performance. It stutters and lags all the time while watching full HD videos and when scrolling web pages... I'm thinking about overclocking it. But then again I will replace it the moment I find powerfull 6" phone. I just didn't make enough research on Mate 7 GPU and CPU, and rushed into buying it... I am so not happy with it... It is beautiful device but stattering will kill me I swear. I can't make the same mistake again...
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- Anonymous
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- 03 Sep 2015
TylerGrunter, 03 Sep 2015Nope, that site is the one I thought you used as a referenc... moreIm not asking u anything for things i already know. It doesnt matter 191 gflops it can be 900 gflops as well. Same rules applies. X1.8 and 40 procent less. U dont need t880 base frequency reference. You already have t760 722. Do calculation for t880.
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- TylerGrunter
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- 03 Sep 2015
zac89, 03 Sep 2015No I understan this now... In Exinos 7420 MaliT760 has tota... moreI'm happy someone finally understood the math behind it.
It seems between my lack of ability to explain myself and punisher's lack of English we got into a long argument :(
The bad news is that my calculations are quite conservative and favoring the X20.
Sorry to crush your expectations!
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- zac89
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- 03 Sep 2015
No I understan this now... In Exinos 7420 MaliT760 has total of 191gflops in 8 cores clocked at 772MHz, which means 1 core is 23,875gflops.
Mali T880 is expected to be 1.8x performance of T760, which would be 23.875x1.8= 42.975gflops per core for T880 if it was @772MHz same as T760, but it is not.
Mali T880in Helio X20 has only 4 cores of possible16 (thats tragic) so it would have total of 172gflops@772MHz which is still lower than T760 because it has 8 cores and when you reduce clock to 700MHz like MTK did in HelioX20 you get 172gflops x 0.906 you get 155.956gflops total. And I don't like it because I wanted my next phone to be Predator 6!!!!