[sanswork]

Do you play a lot of games on your phone?

[jandrese]

The benchmark should be: How long can the phone run Pokemon Go before the battery dies.

[yoodenvranx]

I play tons of games on my phone but it's usually only games like Solitaire and similar 2d games.

[72deluxe]

It would be interesting to know if they were just reimplmenting Android's View OnPaint and doing it in 2D land or getting an OpenGL context and drawing it 2D in there. I wonder what the battery differences would be like.

[xiaopanga]

Do people play a lot of graphics intensive games on phones?

[PacketPaul]

I do and the battery only last an hour. We need bigger batteries. CPU speed is never the issue.

[jonlucc]

Naive question: do faster cores perform slower tasks with more efficiency? In other words, if a game uses 80% of the old processor, but only 50% of the new one, is there an impact on the battery life just by being a faster CPU?

[smileysteve]

Yes. Especially with multiple cores, gets more work done quicker and the core can shutdown. The core can also scale down where it is presumably more efficient.

[sanswork]

It is definitely becoming more common.