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HWM+HardwareZone.com Tech Awards 2016: Editor's Choice - Part 1

By Team HardwareZone - 20 Feb 2016

Best Mobile Chip

Best Mobile Chip 

Your mobile chip is the brains of your smartphone or tablet. Each system on a chip contains the processing cores, graphics processing unit, cache memory and all the other electronics necessary to provide mobile computing functions within a single physical package. But which mobile chip is the best?

Nominees: 

 

  • Apple A9X (Apple iPad Pro)
  • Huawei Kirin HiSilicon 935 (Huawei Mate S)
  • Intel Atom Z3580 (ASUS ZenFone 2)
  • Mediatek Helio X10 (Xiaomi Redmi Note 2)
  • Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 (Sony Xperia Z5 Premium)
  • Samsung Exynos 7420 (Samsung Galaxy Note 5)

 

And the winner is...

Apple A9X

Apple’s A9X ran circles around the competition this year, easily outscoring everyone in every benchmark. The A9X also proved that cores aren’t everything, as it’s just a dual-core CPU. Samsung’s Exynos 7420 also deserves a special mention for its combination of excellent benchmark performance and great power efficiency.

For more details on how we selected our winners, check out the full reviews and articles listed at the References section at the end.

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