These benchmark numbers you found about the Exynos 5433 are so low probably because "Geekbench 3" is not very good at reaching the maximum theoretical performance, as it runs a bunch of real-world computing tasks. In general you need to hand-code assembly loops of fused-multiply-add instructions to reach the max theoretical perf and clearly this is not what Geekbench does, look at the list of FP workloads it runs: http://support.primatelabs.com/kb/geekbench/geekbench-3-benc...
That isn't true, SMIC has a 28nm process(very low yields, and only fabbing designs from Qualcomm afaik, but supposedly does exist, as far as anyone from the west can reasonably ascertain). [1]
1. http://www.smics.com/eng/press/press_releases_details.php?id...
>That isn't true, SMIC has a 28nm process
I don't understand your comment. 28 is not sub-28.
Hmm..
Process：Manufacturing with 28nm process
And there you go.
Not sure if people are aware, but China doesn't have any sub-28nm (or 22nm?) fabs. TSMC has some of course, but the Taiwanese government is very, very strong on keeping those plants in Taiwan (although they are fine with TSMC etc building less advanced fabs in China).
Until they get a process shrink on this, I think.. well, I'd like to see some independent benchmarks.
Edit: The Samsung Exynos 5433 (4 cores on a 20nm process[1]) maxes out at 3.78 GFLOPS[2] on selected benchmarks. Call it 1 GLOP/core - I find it unlikely that this thing is going to get 500 GFLOPS with 64 cores, even with a higher power consumption.
[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/8718/the-samsung-galaxy-note-4...
[2] http://www.anandtech.com/show/8718/the-samsung-galaxy-note-4...