Samsung Galaxy S4 to have 8 core processor, to be unveiled on March 14th?

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allenmaher said:

yo_john117 said:

Yeah you're probably right. It's not too bad; just kind of annoying. Especially since my last phone had a single core 1 GHz processor and a quarter of the ram that the SIII has and it was much smoother performance wise (not to mention all of the high end games I've played on both had about the same graphics).

So as far as I can tell an optomized dual core phone is all the power you would really ever need.

And 640k of ram is more than anyone will ever need... smartphones and tablets are quickly changing the computing and gaming landscape.

The argument isn't that a more powerful CPU wouldn't be useful, the argument is that more cores doesn't actually get you a more powerful CPU. It's rare that even desktop computers take full advantage of four cores, mobile devices simply don't multitask enough to leverage two more cores. You're better off jacking up the clock speed on two cores than adding more cores the device will rarely use, or using that transistor/power budget to improve other parts of the SoC.