Smart TV performance Which strong three TV chips difference Secret

"The performance of Qualcomm chip games is better, and the MStar chip is more powerful." This is the information obtained after chatting with a product manager. What is going on? We will give you a detailed explanation.

In recent years, with the rapid development of domestic mobile phones, mobile phone hardware has become a new product release every time. Manufacturers will make great efforts to publicize the key points. What makes the Qualcomm Xiaolong 810, 820, Hassling Unicorn, MediaTek Helio, etc. Many consumers are disoriented, in the end what performance of the chip is better let white users are puzzled.

Looking back at China’s TV market since the smart TV, there is a great trend for TVs to develop “mobile phone”. After a price war will squash the prices of large-screen TVs below the price of 5,000 yuan, it will also play a big PK with the same hardware as the mobile phones. Since 2015, many flagship TV brands have adopted the MStar 6A928 chip and pushed it at the press conference. Near the end of 2015, an Internet TV brand carried the Qualcomm 810 chip in its flagship TV. The brand's predecessor products used the 6A928 chip), and in March 2016, MStar's latest generation flagship TV chip 6A938 was released again. For a time, the TV chip seems to have entered the old and new alternate melee situation.


Seeing here, someone may be confused. What is the difference between the 6A928 and 6A938 and the Qualcomm 810 chip?

This starts with the configuration of three chips. Firstly, the 6A928 chip adopts the Cortex-A17 architecture. Compared to the A9 architecture that is famous for the iPhone processor, the performance of the Cortex-A17 architecture is increased by 60%, the energy efficiency ratio is 20% higher, and the 6A928 supports up to 60 frames per second. Video decoding capability.




The 6A938 is 6A928's next-generation product, and is also MStar's flagship TV chip in 2016. It uses the latest Cortex-A72 CPU (the previous generation MSD6A938 chip used Cortex-A17 CPU) and uses the MStar CoreTurbo true multi-core drive engine. ; GPU side uses Mali T820, making games, UI up to 60FPS under 4K conditions; the other hand, MSD6A938 uses 96bit DDR4 memory, frequency up to 2.4GHz.


It can be seen that the performance parameters of the 6A938 are better than that of the 6A928. More importantly, the 6A938 has added native support for the HDR technology. This is the case since the major TV manufacturers have been popularizing HDR technology this year. It is particularly important.


The Qualcomm 810 chip that was used by smart TV manufacturers in 2015 was a quad-core Cortex-A57+ quad-core Cortex-A53 architecture and an Adreno 430 graphics chip. Qualcomm claims that its performance has improved by 30% compared to Adreno 420. It supports DX11.2, OpenGL ES 3.1, OpenCL1.2 full version, and supports full H.265 hardware decoding.

It can be said that the performance of the three television chips is not weak, especially the 6A928 and Qualcomm 810 as the same period of the product is more likely to make it difficult to distinguish the differences.

Therefore, we also chatted with the product manager of a smart TV in particular to see how we can see the difference between the two chips from the television factory.

According to the product manager, the 6A928 chip is currently the best performing TV chip. The 6A938 goes even further. Both the CPU and the GPU have improved. More importantly, it supports the HDR function. 810 is mainly focused on performance, suitable for enthusiasts to play games such as big screen games. To put it simply, from the perspective of the chip itself, the MStar series chips pay more attention to picture quality performance, and the QUALCOMM chips pay more attention to game performance. However, Qualcomm's chip solutions can be matched with dedicated picture quality processing chips to make up for QUALCOMM's chip quality processing. problem. Of course, choosing this solution will increase the cost of the chip.

In other words, from the current performance of the two factions of the chip, if the TV machine factory hopes that television is more emphasis on picture quality performance, you can choose the MStar chip program, and if you want TV is more biased towards game performance, you can also choose Qualcomm's chip Program. If you say that there is a composite solution that selects Qualcomm chip + image quality processing chip, it is necessary to expect that the entire plant will not hesitate to increase the manufacturing cost.

From another perspective, consumers can also use this method to understand whether the TV they purchase is more suitable for watching videos or more suitable for playing games.

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