Qualcomm, one of ARM-based processor manufacturers has launched its Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 SoC (System on Chip) processor with a speed of 1.5 GHz which has another quad-core processor performance. This processor is worthy of the title of the fastest processor for tablet PCs today.
Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor comes with Adreno 320 graphics company whose performance is superior to its competitors.
Qualcomm has prepared a test platform in the form of a tablet that is intended for developers with a price of USD $ 1,299, is quite expensive indeed, because it is not intended for regular users.
This tablet uses Qualcomm Snapdragon uses S4 Pro 1.5 GHz quad-core processor, Adreno 320 graphics, 2GB of RAM memory and storage capacity of 32GB and the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system.
The tablet also features a myriad of features such as a camera with a resolution of 13 megapixels, sensor accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, temperature and pressure sensors. Not only that, this particular tablet for developer comes with 7 pieces of microphone, a microUSB port, microSD slot and headphone jack.
As reported from Slashgear and The Verge (24.07.2012), Qualcomm tablet is used to measure the performance of the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core compared to its competitors.
The results of measurements using a synthetic benchmark software such as Quadrant, Vellamo, GLB 2.1 (EGYPT (720p) and put the Qualcomm Snapdragon Antutu S4 Pro quad-core on the top position.
The resulting performance of Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor is able to beat rivals such as Samsung Exynos quad-core (Galaxy S3), Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core (One X HTC, Asus Transformer Pad) and also the brother of its dual-core, Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core S4 (HTC One S).
The following table testing results performed by The Verge, putting Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core on the top makes it the fastest processor for the current tablet.
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