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Just Realized My Phone is Faster Than My Computer...

uncholowapo

uncholowapo

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My laptop's Pentium Dual Core (core2 based) tops at 1.46Ghz. My LG Connect 4G's speed when overclocked goes all the way up to 1.82Ghz.

To think I bought that laptop 8 years ago with my summer money that I saved up working withi my dad, its crazy to see stuff like this. I know the architecture differences are there but I can safely say my phone is faster than my computer :p

Oh and if I had never upgraded the RAM, my laptop would of had the same amount of memory as my phone (1GB). I believe the type of DDR2 memory is shared between the 2 as well except the one in my phone is LPDDR2.

tl;dr

my phone is a more efficent and powerful replica of my laptop :D
 
Clock speed, perhaps. But performance wise, eh that's pushing it. My OG Droid was OC'd to 1.2Ghz and my netbook clocked at 1Ghz (Celeron) smoked it. My TF Prime is a Tegra 3 (Quadcore) and my laptop is a AMD dual core and it smokes the Prime. It's difficult to compare. (also, I'll just point out, because these aren't fair comparisons: my netbook had twice the RAM of the Droid, and my laptop has 4 times the RAM of the Prime)
 
I can't find the exact specs on the LG Connect, but it's probably single core and a dual core will usually outperform those.
 
dan330 said:
comparing actual throughput.. the 8 yr laptop would out perform todays top phones.
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I don't know if mine would, it's been running like crap. Of course, it only has 512MB of RAM, I should upgrade that. Or just get a new laptop. Of course, since I got my Nook Tablet, I've barely touched it, so probably won't bother replacing it yet.
 
SUroot said:
RAM shouldn't affect processing.
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Sure it does. The more RAM you have, to a point, the less reading/ writing the CPU needs to do to and from the HDD to the RAM you have, the more clock cycles you have for actual work. Everything runs from RAM, so if you don't have enough, it will bottleneck your CPU.
 
Hrethgir said:
I don't know if mine would, it's been running like crap. Of course, it only has 512MB of RAM, I should upgrade that. Or just get a new laptop. Of course, since I got my Nook Tablet, I've barely touched it, so probably won't bother replacing it yet.
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ok.. fine.. you got me..
let me better qualify my statement...

any high-end computer from 8 yrs ago...will stomp any top of line mobile device today.
 
I meant the last line to be sarcastic. You guys on the internet really need to take a back seat when it comes to off topic posts lol

I know there are no direct comparisons with the difference between Android and Windows as well as architectural differences. But, clock speed is clock speed and a transistor on my phone switches 400Mhz times faster than one on my laptop :p
 
Hrethgir said:
Sure it does. The more RAM you have, to a point, the less reading/ writing the CPU needs to do to and from the HDD to the RAM you have, the more clock cycles you have for actual work. Everything runs from RAM, so if you don't have enough, it will bottleneck your CPU.
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Not really. RAM keeps in memory, files (user or system) that are frequently used to speed up the "fetching" of those files. In no way does that speed up the work the processor does. Remember, we're talking about throughput here...
 
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