Intel vs Qualcomm vs Samsung. Who makes better Soc. Which Chipset is better.

Many people ask this question, who makes best mobile processor. Which Soc is best. Which Chipset for mobile is best.

Simple and straight forward answer is, all are good. All makes good Soc, and in the end everything boils downs to money, your preference and usages. In real world situations you will not see much difference.

Intel used to dominate both Mobile Computing market and Desktop Market. In past Intel used to manufacture Arm Instruction set based, Xscale processor, which were considered great and even best in past. But to propagate x86 in mobile sphere, Intel Sold Xscale and tried to replace it with Intel Atom. Intel's came late into party as Intel was never concerned about mobile platform and when it came it failed, Atom never took off. So essentially, Intel is out of mobile market. As its mobile chips do not offer features that Arm based Chips Offer.

99.99 Mobile Soc are based On Arm Architecture. That Includes Apple's Soc. ARM license its micro architecture and intellectual property to chip manufacturer, chip manufacturer use it as base to develop their own chips, they are free to modify and adapt the micro architecture as per their need.

Now let's consider Mobile Phone landscape. 

1. Qualcomm is an American Tech Company who manufacturers Snapdragon Soc.
2. NVidia, is an American Tech Company who manufacturers Tegra Soc.
3. Samsung, is a Korean Tech Company who manufacturers Exynos Soc.
4. Mediatek, is a Taiwanese Tech Company who Manufactures Soc, mostly uses Chip Numbers Instead of Brand Name.
5. Texas Instrument, is again an American Tech Company who manufacturers Omap Soc.
6. Marvell is an American Tech Company who now manufacturers Xscale Soc
7. Spreadtrum is a Chinese Tech Company who Manufactures Soc, mostly uses Chip Numbers Instead of Brand Name.

And list goes on on and on as there are many manufacturers.

Which is better is the question, well Samsung uses Mediatek, Qualcom, Spreadtrum and Exynos in its phone.

Chip alone does not decide which phone will be great. Manufacturer, quality control and other components equally important role. You can find Qualcomm in Many Mobile phones, but their performance is horrendous. While Spreadtrum a very low end chip manufacturer, provides a decent performance in many entry level phones that are being sold.

It is more about Brand value, and any Company has better Brand value, then its products have perceived notion that everything that company makes are great, reliable. Which is not a case and is a fallacious reasoning.

Indeed, one thing can be said about Qualcomm Snapdragon without any doubt that, it is a well-recognized brand with strong brand value with a lot of recognition.

Then again, mediatek has equally good Soc. As far as my experience goes with Mediatek and Qualcomm. I have seen Qualcomm device failing.

Samsung is very experienced in this field too, it fabricates and manufactures Apple's A series Soc. Samsung Exynos Soc is good too. Considering the fact that Apple trusts Samsung, when it comes to Soc manufacturing. 

For sake of Comparison, let's consider, MediaTek MT6752 vs. Snapdragon 615. Now question is which one you should go for.

The answer is tricky, if you think that Snapdragon outperform Mediatek, then you are wrong.

Let's consider a few benchmarks. AnTuTu, Quadrant Standard and Geekbench 3.

AnTuTu

• Snapdragon 615: 37,350 points
• MediaTek MT6752: 44,483 points 

Quadrant Standard

• Snapdragon 615: 24,234 points
• MediaTek MT6572: 15,013 points

Geekbench 3

•     Snapdragon 615: Single core: 700Multi core: 2,692
•     MediaTek MT6752: Single core: 813Multi core: 4,007

As you yourself can see, Mediatek in this case is way better in terms of raw performance. Then again Qualcomm has more recognition more so people tend to gravitate towards Qualcom.  

In the end all I can say is that One can’t blindly say which processor is best. To answer that question, one must do through comparison and analysis and for that we must need to do standardized bench marking. Each Soc and processor manufacture has its own plus points and feature set. So it’s always a consumer's choice what they want to buy. Most of the time Consumers are directly or indirectly affected by marketing and tactics.

In short my conclusion is that, It’s really depend on your usage, your budge and price you are willing to spend and also on the software using that Soc.


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