Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 Benchmarks

Snapdragon 800 MSM8974 Reference devices

We are here in San Francisco on invitation from Qualcomm to benchmark their Snapdragon 800 processor (MSM8974) which features a 28nm HPm quad core Krait 400 CPU capable of running at 2.3 GHz per core and the new Adreno 330 GPU. It is expected to be the fastest mobile processor in the market and even beat the Samsung Exynos 5 Octa and Qualcomm’s own Snapdragon 600 processor in terms of benchmarks and performance. Dive in and take a look at the jaw dropping numbers in the Benchmarks. Continue reading “Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 Benchmarks”

HTC rumored to get PlayStation tag this year!

Sony Ericsson Play showed us that PlayStation labelled devices are really great for gaming. Now, it is rumored that HTC is working on a gaming device which will be given the PlayStation license by Sony later this year.

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Samsung to begin mass production of Exynos 5250 SoC from Q2 2012

We all have been hearing about the quadcore Exynos which might feature in the Samsung Galaxy S III, Samsung mentioned in their earnings call today that currently they are sampling the Exynos 5250 SoC and will probably start the mass production for their devices from Q2 2012 on wards if everything goes right.

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ASUS Padfone shows off Krait S4 MSM8960 internals in benchmark database

Tempted by the category straddling ASUS Padfone ? If performance related concerns were holding back your decision then you have one less worry. GLBenchmark’s public results database has shown that the Tablet + Phone combination packs in a Krait S4 MSM8960 chip.

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