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[Q]Potential Perfomance

does anyone have a guess how well the nc might work if we get some custom roms on it?
i had finally played with a galaxy tab today and i was very impressed. this tablet is the closest to ipad performance that i've seen so far. zooming and scrolling were pretty smooth. if they priced them at $350 off contract i'd surely pic one up.
is it possible to expect that level of performance on the nc? i'm sure we can oc it to 1Ghz with a kernel that would support it.

I'm in agreement with you. I have the NC now, and really want to like it, but it's clear that I want more tablet in my ereader. I found a deal tonight with Radio Shack that is really tempting me. $350 with Sprint 2 yr contract until 12/11. I have a wifi iPad (yes, I have issues), but I think I can justify having a 3G tablet for travel, etc. Biggest challenge now is justifying it with my wife 3 weeks before Christmas...

IIRC, the nooter sd card clocks the cpu to 1 ghz, and it works fine for that.
At the very least, we should be able to run on-demand up to 1ghz, although i'm not sure what the temps would look if it was forced to run constantly at that temp. I do know that my nook gets warm to the touch when I leave it on full 800mhz performance.

Note that mhz isn't nesessarily what equals speed, I.e. amd and intel..

Of course, but when we are talking about a single chip here going from 800Mhz to 1Ghz it is not unreasonable to expect some sort of speed gain. Barring nothing goes wrong of course.

I played around with a 1GHz kernel on the NC, and indeed got 25% better scores in Linpack. I didn't do much more than run Linpack and Quadrant and about 10 minutes of Angry Birds and didn't run into any big trouble. I also tried faking a 1.2GHz 3630 variant but got a boot hang pretty quickly.

I've read that the meaningful guts are the same as the Droid 1....I had my D1 running at 1.2 ghz....and it rocked the HOUSE!...in fact, it had plenty of power...the only reason I go the D2 was because I wanted the 8gb of internal....

madsquabbles said:
does anyone have a guess how well the nc might work if we get some custom roms on it?
i had finally played with a galaxy tab today and i was very impressed. this tablet is the closest to ipad performance that i've seen so far. zooming and scrolling were pretty smooth. if they priced them at $350 off contract i'd surely pic one up.
is it possible to expect that level of performance on the nc? i'm sure we can oc it to 1Ghz with a kernel that would support it.
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With a proper froyo rom, there is no reason to believe the Nook Color can't run as smooth as an Ipad or a Galaxy Tab. Not to forget the NC has 2x the ram as an ipad. Right now the software is the limiting factor of the NC. Too put it simply, the Barnes and noble Build is garbage.

Two of the four cores not activated??

Hello;
I just received my Note 3 (N900W8) with Rogers Canada.
Ran Antutu and on stock w/o root I've been getting around 27000-31000 on multiple dry runs.
So out of curiosity I ran System Tuner with CPU Core addon, ran Antutu again, and I notice that cores 2 and 3 never activate (i.e. 0 activity). It's only cores 0 and 1 maxing out at 100%.
Is this normal? Under what circumstances would the rest of the two cores activate?

I had this same issue. I rebooted and re ran the benchmark and the other two cores became active. I have no clue why that happened.

That's normal, if all cores are constantly running we would get crappy battery life. They kick in depending on the demand , the higher the demand the more cores it will use.
RoloRacer on Note3 N900A

roloracer said:
That's normal, if all cores are constantly running we would get crappy battery life. They kick in depending on the demand , the higher the demand the more cores it will use.
RoloRacer on Note3 N900A
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True but benchmarking the system taxes it pretty hard I would think the cores should kick in doesnt seem right to me

powdered_donuts said:
True but benchmarking the system taxes it pretty hard I would think the cores should kick in doesnt seem right to me
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That's exactly it. Two of the cores do not activate under benchmark which I find very unsettling. My replacement phone is under way though so I will see in a few days. This phone also has dead pixels. I may have gotten like the worst Note 3 lol.
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[Q] Z3+ ordered - worried about speed/overheating

hi,
I ordered a new Z3+ to replace my Xperia TX. The recent issues about slow speeds compared to the Z3 and the overheating has me worried that the Z3+ is not equal in quality to the Z3. Should I still get the phone ?

The S810 has a known heating problem, with the newer revision in the One Plus Two, rev 2.1 offers slightly tuned performance and improved temps. While I don't know if you should get this phone I would say throttle is a given with S810 chips in any phone.
For such a chip to be cooled you need better thermal padding, and definitely a larger chassis to dissipate heat...neither can be achieved in super slim phones, but a tablet could.
Sent from my XT1528

I had 6 back to back antutu runs. First score was 52K & last three were 46K. I didn't see any abrupt drop in performance. The phone didn't overheat as well. The only area that gets 'warm' (not 'hot') is the bottom part directly underneath the google search bar (if you place it at the top of the screen right under the navigation drawer). That part never gets touched by my fingers in portrait mode & landscape mode. Also don't forget to get the firmware update that came out yesterday.

aindriu80 said:
hi,
I ordered a new Z3+ to replace my Xperia TX. The recent issues about slow speeds compared to the Z3 and the overheating has me worried that the Z3+ is not equal in quality to the Z3. Should I still get the phone ?
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer...n-810-is-causing-xperia-z3-overheating-issues
I would steer clear of this phone myself, maybe wait for the Z5??

schecter7 said:
I had 6 back to back antutu runs. First score was 52K & last three were 46K.
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Hm? Much lower than a Tegra K1, very close to the S808, and too far from the Exynos. If that's the score Sony might've throttled it aggressively with that update, since S810 usually scores 60K+. Of course, you should use a reliable benchmark like Geekbench 3 instead.
Also CPU Z can show you whether it was under clocked or not.
Sent from my XT1528

Thanks for the replies ! I guess the heating and speed issue is the same thing. Hopefully the software update will reduce the heat and at least keep the speed equal to the Z3. I think I will still get the Z3+, my TX is too slow and only 16b internal storage

Geekbench 3 is good for cross-platform benchmarking. It's pointless to use it to compare android phones based on identical a57/a53 arch. So Antutu, GB 3 along with CPU-Z (what a buggy mess, Z3+ is clocked at 1.96/1.56 GHz by the way) are garbage and I personally don't care about the scores. Also M9 has a 'high performance' mode. Sony doesn't have it. M9 should score higher on benchmarks, not in real life though.
I posted those scores to answer OP's question - Does it 'overheat' ? No, It doesn't. CPU scores from any back to back benchmark runs would have dropped sharply if there was any overheating.
It's not the same question as - Does it throttle? Next question - 'How much throttling is there?' That's why I gave a range 52-46K. So maximum drop you'd get is around 10% That's very comparable to any other device in the market.

Mi5 64 GB Low Geekbench

Hey guys, since I got my phone it feels a bit laggy comparing to my friend's S7 with the same SD 820.
Thought it was MIUI problem, so changed to LOS 14.1. Still felt laggy and my multi-core geekbench was never higher than 3000, so I did some research and saw people commenting here that LOS roms are not king of perfomance. Then I saw a video of someone benching the Paranoid Android 7.2 and getting something like 5200 points, so I thought I'd give it a try. Changed the rom and the phone feels a little less laggy but my bench is almost the same at around 3000.
Is my phone defective? If not, what should I do to try and fix it? Almost 1 year since I bought it and the OnePlus 5 that my GF bought seems so much snappier and faster it makes me sad that my Mi5 seems slow as my Motorola Atrix.

General Benchmark scores and temperatures are all over the place with the place with the Exynos model

I normally don't give a damn about benchmarks but lately I've been watching comparison videos between the Exynos and the Snapdragon model and I saw that people got way higher scores and lower temperatures on their Exynos model while I'm getting way lower fps and scores.
I tried 3DMark Wild Life Test and my score was ~5100. Phone was idle at that moment and cold to the touch. Others get easily 5700-5800 points and on the Stress Test they peak at 5700 while I'm barely over 5000.
Is something wrong with my S21 Ultra Exynos?

you can by 10 same smartphone, you will neve have same result, like for graphic card or cpu .... that's normal but maybe is just software issue or bad device in your case, try toclear your data cache in recovry mode thant test again, if not good, reset your phone by factory settings and try again if still not good...change the device

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I normally don't give a damn about benchmarks but lately I've been watching comparison videos between the Exynos and the Snapdragon model and I saw that people got way higher scores and lower temperatures on their Exynos model while I'm getting way lower fps and scores.
I tried 3DMark Wild Life Test and my score was ~5100. Phone was idle at that moment and cold to the touch. Others get easily 5700-5800 points and on the Stress Test they peak at 5700 while I'm barely over 5000.
Is something wrong with my S21 Ultra Exynos?
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Should have gotten the HK variant with snapdragon tbh