Since the release of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor model in 2021, everyone has complained that its heat generation is too large, and the Samsung Orion Exynos 2100 and this year's Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 have not been spat on by users. Recently there is a message that seems to explain this reason, this is because the current processor performance is relatively high, which leads to large heat generation, if the performance is reduced, its power control will be very good.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 is a well-known processor, the power consumption of this processor is not very high, and the heat generated by daily use is not large. The Samsung Orion Exynos 2200 processor is a chip that is recognized as a rollover, the power consumption will be very high, the heat generation is very large, but the performance is reduced to the level of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 processor, its power consumption will be lower than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 processor.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 processor in terms of performance is actually not very good, put in all processors to compare, its only advantage is that the power consumption is slightly lower, the peak performance is only the level of the Apple A12 processor in 2018, and now the CPU of the Apple A15 processor has increased by 80% compared to the Apple A12, and the GPU has also increased by about 80%. It can be seen that the peak performance of low-power processors will not be very strong.
This actually reflects from the side that the current improvement of the energy efficiency ratio has reached a bottleneck position, it is difficult to have a large improvement, if the peak performance is improved, the problem of high power consumption must be unavoidable. For example, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processor, which is very large in performance improvement compared to qualcomm Snapdragon 865, directly increased by about 26%, in the case of no improvement in energy efficiency, power consumption will inevitably be high.
So don't complain about the current new Android processors (such as Qualcomm Snapdragon 888, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1) These processors have high power consumption, after all, Qualcomm does not want to do this, but under the current technical limitations, Qualcomm may not have a way to solve this problem well, and had to sacrifice certain power consumption limits in the case of improving peak performance, which led to the results of the current they are called dragons.
So, having said all that, which is more important, power consumption or peak performance? This actually depends on personal trade-offs, if the performance requirements are not high, low-power processors can improve battery life. If the performance requirements are relatively high, powerful peak performance can bring you a faster and smoother experience. As for processors with high power consumption and poor performance, they do not currently exist.