The Competition Between Mobile Processors Is Different Now

Well, I welcome you to my another technical blog. Don't be uninterested I will jumble my words in the easiest way not to confuse you with techy words. Infact I will make it interesting.

But first, let's know what is a Processor, it's simply the CPU of the device which is like a backbone capable of handling tasks and operations.

History Of Mobile Processors

3-4 years back there wasn't much competition in mobile Processors in fact there was only one king at that time ruling named Qualcomm Snapdragon. I am sure many of you are familiar with this term. But things are completely different now. There's a lot of competition in the market now and currently, Snapdragon isn't the best processor we have right now in the smartphone department. I plan to deal with mobile Processors this time because I have good knowledge of them and don't know much about PC processors, lol.

Currently, you should have heard the names of two processors mostly one is the Snapdragon and the other is Mediatek. There are others too like Unisoc, Exynos but those two are the major ones and nowadays most of your smartphones are either equipped with those chips.

Current Scenario

A few years back, Snapdragon was considered the best processor due to how efficient it was both in multitasking and battery efficiency while Mediatek wasn't that advanced at that time and it has major heating issues. Saying this from personal experience as I had used two different devices with Mediatek processors in the last 5 years. And now I have a Snapdragon chipset device. But let me tell you. As time passes and things change same thing happened with the processors.

Both Mediatek and Snapdragon have very stable processors in the mid-range example Mediatek G90T or Snapdragon 730G but in the high-end department, I never thought Mediatek would beat Snapdragon. Above Snapdragon 860 processors let me aware you, these chipsets are very powerful with good ANTUTU scores but they heat a lot which is surprising as the current high-end Mediatek processors like Mediatek 820 don't heat that much and of course, heating happens when you do heavy tasks or play heavy games, not in normal use so don't worry. It seems the table has turned. As with heating the battery drains faster. Even the latest Snapdragon Gen 1 and 2 have a heating issue.

But the fact people still prefer the Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset is because the software developers are comfortable with this chipset and they optimize their apps and services first for Snapdragon while MediaTek is a bit new and it's kept in the second priority zone.

But the way things are going I wouldn't be surprised if Mediatek chipset would be in demand.

Small Comparison

Also, Apple has Silicon Chipset which is good only for iOS and Google Pixel has its own chipset Tensor which is not that powerful but is highly optimized for the camera that's why you get decent photos in Google pixel devices rivaling iPhone camera.

And one more I forgot to mention the lesser the chipset in size the better it is. So next time you make a purchase, see the size of the processor in your smartphone.

Mine is 7nm as it's Snapdragon 870, while iPhone 14 has a 4nm chipset named A16 Bionic chipset. So it's obvious it will be more efficient in the technical departments due to its size. But the current latest Snapdragon 8 gen 2 chipset is also 4nm in size still it heats a bit and it's because it's not fully optimized.

Final Thoughts

By using several devices throughout the years I have realized Apple delivers optimized products and while other android companies don't optimize their product fully. They let us do the testing, lmao.

Well, I hope I gave you some insight into Mobile Processors' chipsets. Chipset mostly matters to people who play heavy games or use it for emulation. If you don't do any of it, don't prioritise much in chipset department. For normal use every chipset is optimised to a good level. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

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