I'm not sure what the difference is between the two chips. They can both achieve the same speeds right? Just two difference manufacturers? With the Droid X coming out, or with any future phone in general, why is one chip better than the other?
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Ok. Now that I have that out of the way here's the skinny.
The Snapdragon manufactured by Qualcomm uses an in house developed processor core codenamed "Scorpion" which is based on the Cortex A8. It also uses an embedded Adreno 200 GPU on the SoC. The part is clocked from the factory at 1 Ghz and maunfactured using a 65nm process. All in all is a good general purpose SoC.
The T.I. OMAP 3630 is the an SoC produced by Texas Instruments. It is using a Cortex A-8 processor core licensed from ARM. The GPU in the unit is a PowerVR SGX 530 which is more capable that the one found in the Snapdragon. This SoC is also clocked at 1 Ghz and produced using a 45nm process. This will in turn reduce heat and power consumption. The OMAP series of processors also perform better clock for clock when compared to the Snapdragon.
For instance. An OMAP 3430 (the SoC in the Moto Droid) at 800 Mhz performs on par with a 1 Ghz Snapdragon. The OMAP has also been proven to be overclockable beyond our wildest dreams where as the Snapdragon has very limited overclock-ability as can be seen by the Nexus One, Desire and EVO 4G. All in all both are very good SoCs for Android handsets but right now the T.I. OMAP is the overall performance king in this arena until Qualcomm introduces something new.
Ooh and by the way I have said it on these forums before and I will say it again. ARM is the future of general purpose computing and Power processors as well as those based on the Cell (which are Power based) are the future of supercomputing. x86 will hopefully, one can pray, come to it's end.
Ooh and by the way I have said it on these forums before and I will say it again. ARM is the future of general purpose computing and Power processors as well as those based on the Cell (which are Power based) are the future of supercomputing. x86 will hopefully, one can pray, come to it's end. do my homework