Why do smartphones bother with 6, 8, or 10 little ARM cores instead of making 2 or 4 big ARM core processors the same size as the 8 or 10 core ones with much better single thread performance?
Wouldn't the improved single thread performance also improve battery life thanks to the struggle of programming for many cores, the phone needing to hotplug more cores to complete the task, and race to idle?
Wouldn't it also be easier to manufacture as having less cores also makes it less complex?
I'm no engineer though, could someone with more knowledge please explain this to me? Is it more than just marketing?
The higher the clock rate, the more energy lost as heat, hence, the quicker the battery will die. Transistors are so small that cores only take up a small area on the die, so adding them isn't a problem. Most of the complexity is handled by machines once the initial design is already done. ARM have already done the designs and then they just license it on to companies that do the fabrication.
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Jonathan Williams
Clock rate doesn't have to be higher, more transistors = more performance?
Look at Ryzen VS Bulldozer for example. Bulldozer had smaller cores in CMT clusters while Ryzen has larger cores with SMT. I know it's very different because desktop vs mobile, x86 vs ARM, etc, but I hope you understand what I'm trying to say.
Dominic Jenkins
Bruh, EVERY modern mobile CPU utilizes big.LITTLE, there are high performance cores for heavy tasks and power efficient cores for the rest.
Aaron Rogers
Snapdragon 820 = 2 big + 2 little Snapdragon 835 = 4 big + 4 little Why not instead of doubling the number of cores, improve the performance per core more. The single core performance increase of the 835 is abysmal in my opinion. It's half of what we got when we went from SD810 to 820.
I've even seen my Snapdragon 820(not 821) go over 2000 single core performance which means that it's matching what the 835 is supposed to be getting...
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I would rather use an iPhone because the performance will be better than Android because it's a native UNIX OS, not a laggy Java VM
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instead of having dual cores why don't we just have 1 core that's 10000% faster?
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Adrian Cook
Because multitasking.
But even then wouldn't you prefer 4 cores that are faster instead of 8 weaker cores?
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Ayden White
Are you talking about the 10 core phone processor?
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Jaxon Parker
Specifics aside, the correct answer to "why don't CPU designers do X to increase performance" is usually "if X was possible or useful they would have done it already".
In your case, the problem is that you think making cores "big" will somehow make them faster. If there was a way to "scale up" a core and have it be faster, CPU manufacturers would already have done that. There isn't. Making cores faster is dependent mainly on frequency (which is already as high as it'll ever get) and process size (i.e. how small and tightly packed the CPU die is).
And no, better single thread perf will not improve battery life. Hotplugging is nowhere near as power-intensive as you think it is.
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Imagine if Android was spun off from tiny core Linux.
Aiden Carter
>Why do smartphones bother with 6, 8, or 10 little ARM cores instead of making 2 or 4 big ARM core processors the same size as the 8 or 10 core ones with much better single thread performance? Power consumption
>Wouldn't the improved single thread performance also improve battery life No
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more cores = better multitasking
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Isaac Torres
>struggle of programming for many cores You litteraly have to add ONE OpenMP instruction to your program
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People still struggle with that.
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Gavin Powell
The wonders of arches not x86. Not all cores in an arm processor are created equal. Especially not on phones. Some are weaker and used when the phone doesn't need the extra processing power. The stronger cores kick in in need. The problem you propose has been solved years and years ago.
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