Comparing the sizes of flagship chipsets: Qualcomm, Samsung, Huawei and Apple

25 March 2018
All four chipsets are built on 10nm processes (though in different fabs). Which company spent more on a large chip?

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Apple chip doesn't include the modem, so it's apple vs orange comparison. The only wow part here is how that Adreno GPU is so small yet faster than anything else. CPU side, i don't think faster CPU matters that much in Smartphone world if it eats battery power and requiring higher voltage, which, causes iPhone to throttle when the battery ages. so SD845 is still the better of them all.

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    • AnonD-347233
    • veF
    • 23 Mar 2018

    jim, 23 Mar 2018so true they are getting there slowly but surelyat first i thought apple a11 is 1.5 or 2 years ahead of its market know its only one year ahead samsung really close the gap pretty sooner than i thought with their new Exynos 9810.

      AnonD-371164, 23 Mar 2018Apple surely has some sorcery going on. Android could learn... more There's nothing specially optimized about iOS, it's merely doing significantly less with less resources, that's not optimization. If iOS were as versatile and feature packed as Android, you'd have a point. However, given the fact that iOS till today can't even do several tasks dumb phones were capable of, not to talk of the millions of functionality offered by Android devices, there's nothing optimized about it. Merely doing less with less.

      BTW, benchmarks only tell a fraction of the performance story:

      https://youtu.be/HmeQCqr5suU

      https://youtu.be/a6kLLqPPi1c

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        • jim
        • 8x1
        • 23 Mar 2018

        AnonD-347233, 23 Mar 2018i thought a11 will be the bigger one. apple spends more on... moreso true they are getting there slowly but surely

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          • AnonD-347233
          • veF
          • 23 Mar 2018

          i thought a11 will be the bigger one.
          apple spends more on chipsets compare to other.
          but samsung has really done good job this time especially single core score(Exynos 9810)its over 3700.

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            • ijs
            • 23 Mar 2018

            The Kirin is left in the dust in these benchmarks..
            but does it really matters in real life everyday usage?
            I do think Huawei need to invest more in their chipset though.

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              • Jsq
              • 23 Mar 2018

              Apple surely has some sorcery going on. Android could learn a few tricks about optimization, memory usage and battery life

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