Maybe I'm going into an area I shouldn't be in

they draw so little electricity its practically unnoticeable

I know I've had one for months and checked how much it uses

under high load max 0.6 Ampere

which means all four cores 100%

just under 3 W

I could get it more down

Know that some power goes to GPU too

so you can undervolt it

yeah they are pretty efficient

or low power at least

Well, we are going into more efficient turf

With the A53 cores and so

15W ULV i5s are probably more efficient per FLOP

ARM chose to do power efficiency over performance power so far

since they are mainly used in phones

well they seem to get better performance

I didn't actually look into the newer chips

but apparently the 820 is a quadcore instead of an ""8core""

I guess they just put more cores in to combat the lower juice they could output

and it still competes with 8cores in multicore benchmarks at pretty low ghz

Octa-core A53 is now a thing

thats the chinky cpu right?

the helio

http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box-mini-pc/pp_366821.html?wid=21

http://www.gearbest.com/tv-box-mini-pc/pp_424843.html?wid=21

Mediatek is Taiwanese, I say chink but some other people like to call taiwan, HK etc for not chinkland

sure they have it "better", like HK has free internet for example (non censorship) but we all know that the chink gov have attacked them brutally

HK vs Mainland is a joke, they will be crushed

as you can see there is quite the price difference so far

But that is since Amlogic actually included a TV tuner with the octa core

they are crazy, these TV boxes might be about to go next level. I know Xiaomi used that one with Dolby licenses to make Xiaomi Android TV box which does Netflix , YouTube, Amazon in UHD with DRM

Features VP9 software decoding

I am still waiting for the new video format to come out

the one that will beat H.265 and be royalty free, I support free software.

yeah

speaking of tv boxes

my mi max just gave me a notification about a chinese tv guide

I should probably install a 3rd party remote app

LG has the best TV app, I was at my friend who had a no-name chink TV brand

and his actually had so many models it even had that, which my HTC didn't