2018 iPad Pro Models Could Have Very Fast Octa-Core A11X Bionic Chip

[bmw0209]

Thank goodness I didn’t buy a new iPad this year next year I’m upgrading to this one

I know right, the guy at Verizon store was trying so hard to get me to buy the pro, I said to him “ why would I buy one now,when the new one comes out in 6-7 months?” He said , well you can give the one you buy now to your husband!

I laughed, I have a Proo 2.9 now, my husband uses his iPad for Facebook, Craigslist, weather, to check on our kids ~ social media accounts, etc... why on earth would I spend all that money on an iPad for that??? When he can have mine, when I get a new one ??? LOL He is fine with that because he doesn’t care about it, th4 guy just looked at me and was like,and then my husband and my husband said she is right...
LOL

 

[kevk74]

eight cores will likely NOT produce performance improvements in most real-world scenarios, actually. Most applications cannot take advantage of that many cores.

You know I heard that analogy when Android and Qualcomm in particular were migrating from the Note 4 with 4 giant cores to these “Octacore” designs, some using the “big little” approach which still compartmentalized these cores into (2) groups but then you hear most apps were designed to leverage ONE (maybe two) cores and suddenly I’m not sure what to think when even INTEL drops 6 and 8 core designs and even makes first quad core with hyper threading available to 13” laptop designs and suddenly they are claiming 200% performance bumps anding cores?

Heck I’ve been Quad Core rMPB since 2012 and I don’t think I could not own at least one quad core in the house? I’m not arguing their is limits and maybe no one does video conversions on iOS but it’s mostly because iOS was too locked down compared to a laptop running a true laptop OS(X)? I guess I’m familiar with video conversions taking hours and Handbrake is known for multi core usage. Maybe those programs are the exception (especially while on battery) and not the rule? Even battery hungry discrete GPU hardware acceleration might alleviate the CPU using its energy, but word is software encodes are still superior and hardware acceleration adds more artifacts. Only intergrated 7th gen Intel GPU’s less battery using hardware acceleration ends up being your only option to survive the energy intensive multicore software encode or even decode. I just question where the HTPC and even NAS owner fits in and how many cores is too many? Obviously die shrink and efficiency along with an efficient quad core or hexa core seem like the perfect balance for thermals and potential usage.