And so it appears that the octa-core MediaTek processors actually do have a performance advantage over the quad-core Qualcomm chip. Of course you don’t get double the performance, and there are instances in which the Galaxy Grand 2 edges out its competition.
It’s also easy to see the effect of other variables, such as a full-HD 1080p screen vs a comparatively grainier 720p screen. The Intex Aqua Octa doesn’t have to push as many pixels as the other phones with the same processor, resulting in a marked increase in performance in graphics-heavy tests. Unfortunately, when manufacturers try to cram too many buzzword-worthy specifications into a product without seeing how they all balance out, the end user suffers a poorer experience.
Ultimately, we can see that “octa-core” isn’t just a marketing term. There are clear advantages to having the spare processing power, and MediaTek seems to have found a way to implement an eight-core SoC within a budget, and without killing battery life.
This has very little to do with what the hardware can do and everything to do with what the software can use it for.
android, is not a very nice OS to work with and it is very hard to use the multiple cores. The android developers kit does allow multi-threading, but not true parallelism, and non-optimal multi-threading at that. So what the spec sheet says it does and what it really does are two things.
My point is don’t buy the hype.