where you getting that chipset information from for this mystery device?
Well, he mentioned it's an Ingenic SoC with 800 MHz that can run up to 1 GHz and has a dedicated GPU. The only ones close to that are the 4760 and the 4770, so I assumed it would be the 4770.
However, reading the article quartercast linked to, it might as well be the 4760.
We all know now from seeing these Yinlips things that chinese love to add the speed of the GPU to the CPU, so it might very well be the 4760, which has a 2D GPU only usable for video processing.... so it would not really be usable for gaming or emulation.
The 4760 would be slower, but it would be able to run the shown emulators at that speed.
However, I don't think they'll become much faster. qbertaddict always mentioned these emulators are not yet optimized, but as it's an Ingenic device, they most probably are using the emulators available for the Dingoo and these are pretty optimized already.
also you're saying the pandora is as fast or faster than a galaxy S? I always thought the pandora had the same SoC as the original Motorola droid. And the galaxy S mops the floor with the motorola droid.
Well, that's the issue with benchmarks that run on top of an OS, optimization, etc.
The specs of the Galaxy S are not much better than the ones of the original Droid.
A couple of MHz more, basically.
It might feel faster to you, if the OS itself is much more optimized.
My N900 also has the same SoC as the Pandora, but sometimes feels a lot slower.
The NES emulator struggles to run without stuttering whereas the Pandora easily plays PSX at 600 MHz. The N900 has an animated OS overlay and a lot more services running that are disabled on the Pandora. It uses Pulseaudio, which eats CPU.
So while the specs are the same, my Pandora feels a lot faster.
Therefore, a benchmark running on an OS is only a very rough comparison.
Also, most benchmarks only check the raw CPU power, which won't help much.
It ignores additional features like the NEON we have on the Pandora.
Thanks to NEON, PSX emulation runs at 600MHz fullspeed for most games. Before the emulator was using NEON, we needed to overclock to 800MHz for the same speed.
The Ingenic doesn't have such features. It's a plain SoC with some video processor.
The L1 and L2 cache also make a speed difference in normal usage, and the Pandora has way more cache than the Ingenics.
As you can see, benchmarks are not really usable, especially not when comparing different architectures, and an overall experience on the system always derives from the optimized OS as well.
Looking at the Ingenic SoC specs, it should probably be a lot slower than the Pandora if it uses the 4760 and still quite a bit slower if it uses the 4770.
However, I don't really see a reason to compare it to the Pandora at all. The Pandora is a mini PC with gaming and emulation features (in fact, I'm lying in bed and typing that post with my Pandora, and this would not be possible with this mystery device
)).
The mystery device looks like a neat little handheld though, a faster Dingoo for probably a low price. And it doesn't look like a PSP, so this would finally be a device which I can stock and sell
