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romeodakins

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The Droid Bionic has 1Ghz normal dual core proccessor but Tegra 2 is also 1Ghz Dual Core but it's Tegra 2. Are the 2 proccessors the same speed since they are both 1ghz dual core or is the tegra 2 faster because I see the tests for droid bionic and the motorola photon(has tegra 2) and droid bionic scores like 2500 and photon scores like 3000.

Also, is Single core 2ghz same as dual core 1ghz?
 
You are comparing a Ti 4430 and a Tegra2, both clocked at 1Ghz. So therefore both are the same speed, Being 1Ghz dual core processors. They are two different chips so they will process things at different speeds. You are comparing one single test, so yes one will be faster than the other. This is like comparing AMD and Intel, except for in the mobile market you have TI, Tegra, S4 and I think one or two more. If they are clocked at the same speed they are the same speed. One will always be faster at any give test but usually not every test. So, is one better than the other, the answer is Yes, but at the same time No.
As for is a single core 2Ghz chip the same as a dual core 1Ghz chip, the answer is NO. Again look up computer processors. Just because it's double the speed does not mean that it can keep up. For a single app/process they could be completely equal or the dual core 1Ghz chip could be faster, it all depends on how it is written and if it takes advantage of dual cores. If it doesn't than the 2Ghz will be faster, but if it is the dual core 1Ghz chip will be faster.
There are many factors when comparing chips and in all honesty speed is an incredibly minor factor. I would not buy a new computer on processor speed alone and I will not buy a new phone on it either.
On a side note the RAZR has the exact same processor as the Bionic except it's clocked at 1.2 instead of 1.0Ghz. That 1.2 is much faster than a 1Ghz Tegra2 in most tests.

Lastly why do you think that the Tegra 2 is some sort of "super chip"? I use that term because you call the Bionics TI 4430 a "normal" chip.
 
... since so little is currently developed to utilize the dual core it is highly likely that the 2Ghz single core will be faster in many tests. It is currently done application by application.

When the system fully utilizes both cores all the time then you will see a significant change in many of the tests simply because parts of the same job can be done in parallel instead of having to artificially wait.

What I learned my first month in programming was ... don't trust any speed test ... they can be fudged reporting incorrect conclusions ... they can be monumentally complicated and you can erroneously draw the wrong conclusions.

Before viruses were ever on computers (yes there was a time) ... the first malware on am IBM mainframe was some dishonest people fudging the results of a speed test to demonstrate their product's superiority over their competitors.

I recommend caution.

... Thom
 
the tegra 2 never learned how to play nice with lte, so it's not available in any 4g lte devices.
 
Gingerbread only uses one core generally. The second only handles user input unless you are in Webtop.
 
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