Agreed. I'm perfectly happy to have a couple of A53s in my phone for background tasks. Four feels a bit overkill but okay, maybe it makes the big.LITTLE design work better.
But I've always been disappointed by devices that are all A53s.
And when I see devices that have eight A53s and nothing else, I have to assume that they are just trying to trick people into thinking it's a more powerful device than it actually is.
>I have to assume that they are just trying to trick people into thinking it's a more powerful device than it actually is
Why would you think that people who actually look up and care about the hardware at the same time are unable to read the first sentence on wikipedia and have no idea what it is? Do you really believe that customers of $100 budget phones are tricked into powerful performance?
Oddly enough, a very sizeable portion of customers seem to be aware of core numbers and "memory" size (often confused with disk size, though). The i3-5-7 naming scheme is also pretty widely understood. I used to work at an electronics store when I was a teenager (6-7 years ago, so not that long ago!) and that kind of made it a struggle to steer people who knew just enough to hurt themselves into buying an actually good product. I mean, that MediaTek is an 8 core CPU so why was I trying to sell him a 2/4cores Qualcomm? Or they'd buy a laptop with a Celeron and barely enough flash to fit Windows, but it was a quad core! Obviously better than the 2 core i3 that actually has space to install software lol.
I'd guess 25% of customers knew about those at a superficial level, and another 10% actually knew what they should be looking for.
I’d guess there are a lot of people who see “eight-core CPU!” and don’t research any further. Same way that PC buyers used to stare at GHz and ignore the total performance of the CPU.
It's not entirely their fault either. Manufacturers know what spec people are more aware of and include that in their product and make it front and center. It's more common than I'd hope to have a laptop with an APU paired with a separate GPU that is barely better than the one inside the APU. But people go "gaming, so dedicated gpu" and buy the product. What a waste all around.
But I've always been disappointed by devices that are all A53s.
And when I see devices that have eight A53s and nothing else, I have to assume that they are just trying to trick people into thinking it's a more powerful device than it actually is.