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The manufacturers of mobile phones creates CPUs and GPUs that are optimized to win benchmarks but if you rerun the tests over a longer time period the CPU/GPU w
by acd 11y ago
The manufacturers of mobile phones creates CPUs and GPUs that are optimized to win benchmarks but if you rerun the tests over a longer time period the CPU/GPU will overheat and run into thermal throttle issues. Thus consumers are thinking they are buying a phone which is faster than what they really get in practise.
Then marketing wants new features to sell to consumers so you increase the core count which is one way of making the phone faster but at the same time you drain the battery a lot faster.
- Symmetry 11y agoMost of the time when I'm using a phone I'm doing something intensive (rendering a web page) followed by long periods of light use (reading the web page). So I think that running fast for a short period is a good thing for phones to be doing. And making a phone faster will almost neccesarily drain the battery faster. The important metric is task energy where you multiply the time it takes a phone to do some task by the power it consumes while doing it to figure out how much energy was needed overall to do it. By that metric adding more cores usually has less of a negative effect than speeding up a phone by upping the clock speed or the size of the OoO structures.