A8 Versus A8 Versus ARM11
November 24, 2010 by HS in Android Tablet, MIDnite, Nationite, Review, Tablet, Tablet Review with 5 Comments.
A8 versus A8 versus ARM11 - we haven't had a good showdown in a while. Today I was fortunate enough to get a Freescale iMX515 Cortex A8 based tablet to play with, and decided to pit it against its half brother, the Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP3530 Cortex A8 based counterpart, the MIDnite, as well as our latest tablet offering on the MP4 Nation store, the Telepad, powered by the ARM11 TCC8902 processor. Invigorating stuff. The Freescale and TI A8 processors were both clocked at 800MHz while Telepad's Telechips ARM11 CPU comes in clocked at a lower 720MHz - I know, it's not quite a fair test, especially when considering the latter runs Android 2.1, while the former two A8 brethren run Android 2.2. We (attempted) to use 3 benchmarks: Quadrant Standard Edition, Linpack for Android and Qualcom
