Can phones run newer games?

ninjabubbles3

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So I was looking at the specs for my OPO, and noticed the 2.5 Ghz quad core and 3 Gbs of RAM. First of all, these are better specs than my laptop, which is 1.8 Ghz dual core and 2 Gbs of RAM, plus some 6000 series Go GPU.

My question is, if a game like LOL can run on a 2.0 Ghz dual core, and 2 Gigs of RAM at minimum, would it be able to run at low-medium settings on my phone? I know the GPU wouldn't be as great, but if it was possible, could it be done?
 

C4C

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I think there's a possibility after your get all the hardware to work together and a proper OS... Only think is bandwidth on that GPU since they aren't the most powerful..
 

DMGrier

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There is a difference between the architecture of a CPU in a laptop and a cell phones. Some of ARM's highest end CPU's for phone and tablets barely comes within striking distances of an Intel Core i3. On a further note when you look at what the processor is processing in an ARM CPU the processes are far more simple where as a Intel or AMD x86 or x64 processes items which are more complex.

Unless a game is ported to run on Android/iOS under ARM technology I wouldn't even consider the possibility.
 

ninjabubbles3

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There is a difference between the architecture of a CPU in a laptop and a cell phones. Some of ARM's highest end CPU's for phone and tablets barely comes within striking distances of an Intel Core i3. On a further note when you look at what the processor is processing in an ARM CPU the processes are far more simple where as a Intel or AMD x86 or x64 processes items which are more complex.

Unless a game is ported to run on Android/iOS under ARM technology I wouldn't even consider the possibility.

Hmm, good point. I believe my phones processor is a Snapdragon, either a 601 or 801, not sure.

What do you mean by the architecture is different? Is it kind of like how even if an AMD chip is "faster", the Intel chip will outperform it
 

C4C

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Hmm, good point. I believe my phones processor is a Snapdragon, either a 601 or 801, not sure.

What do you mean by the architecture is different? Is it kind of like how even if an AMD chip is "faster", the Intel chip will outperform it

Actually now that I think of it, the wattage and core performance is much less in phone CPU's then in a desktop.. They also run on much less ram..
 

beers

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What do you mean by the architecture is different? Is it kind of like how even if an AMD chip is "faster", the Intel chip will outperform it

The processors were created differently. Code that is written to operate on an x86 processor won't execute on a processor with a different architecture (like ARM). You would have to modify the code and compile it for those systems instead.
 

ninjabubbles3

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The processors were created differently. Code that is written to operate on an x86 processor won't execute on a processor with a different architecture (like ARM). You would have to modify the code and compile it for those systems instead.

Didn't understand too much of this, but point taken
 

Darren

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Didn't understand too much of this, but point taken

Basically the architecture isn't designed for the type of use you'd put a desktop or even laptop through. It's designed to be very power efficient since it has to run on battery as well as be cool since our smartphones don't have fans on them. :p

The Intel and AMD comparison is kind of right, although AMD and Intel architectures are much more closely related than what you'd find in a phone. My phone has a quad core chip at 1.7GHz but even my laptop that I'm on now is only a dual core with HT. My phone does truly have more cores than my laptop, but if you benched both of them the laptop would smear my phone all over the wall. Even if you did lock them at the same number of cores and clock speed the desktop or laptop counterpart would be better than the phone. There's a lot more to it than just clock speed.
 

G80FTW

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as well as be cool since our smartphones don't have fans on them. :p

I think my S2 needs a fan in it.... Iv had to refuse to charge one time because it said it was too hot. I rarely use it like that though, I was just watching video after video on youtube with it. At least it didnt just charge anyway and blow itself up.

And then I always wondered why my phone was so slow at loading webpages even when my connection is 30mbps+. The S2 is old I know, but I would think a dual core processor would load pages alot faster than this thing does.
 
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Darren

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Wipe it and reset it, same as any Operating System, it will slow down over time.

My S3 developed a lot of problems in its later life. I'm surprised your S2 is even still kicking.
 
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