Qualcomm confirms Snapdragon 600 for Samsung GALAXY S4

Qualcomm confirms Snapdragon 600 for Samsung GALAXY S4

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 600 is brand new and it has started its way into smartphones. Samsung stated that the Galaxy S4 will be available as a 4G device with a 1.9GHz quad-core processor in UK.

Samsung has announced that Galaxy S4 will be available in ;
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• Samsung’s latest and greatest Exynos 5 Octa chipset
• Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 600 platform

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The two processors that Exynos 5 Octa offers are:
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• A quad-core 1.6GHz ARM Cortex-A15 CPU used for heavier loads
• A quad-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A7 CPU for lighter tasks (both these processors can’t work simultaneously)
• It also features a tri-core PowerVR SGX544MP3 graphics.

[/list] [blockquote cite=””] The Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 600 chipset comes with a quad-core Krait 300 processor and Adreno 320 graphics and it has incredibly increased the performance over its predecessors. Qualcomm said that the Snapdragon 600 offers a massive performance increase as compared to the Snapdragon S4 Pro.
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Galaxy S4 is coming out with different processors in different regions of the world. In USA it uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core processor while in most of the other regions outside the states it comes with Samsung Exynos “Octa” processor with 8 CPU cores (4 active, 4 backup). It will be interesting to see how these two will compare to one another!