Texas Instruments: Our Dual-Core OMAP5 (A15) is Faster Than Your Quad-Core A9

In a presentation video uploaded to the Texas Instruments video blog, TI communicates their new “less is more” mantra. Showing off their brand new OMAP5 processor platform with dual Cortex-A15 CPUs, Texas Instruments says they are much faster than the competition’s quad-core Cortex-A9 systems-on-chip. The video shows the Cortex-A15 dual-core chip “handily” defeating a quad-core A9 competitor. The kicker? TI’s OMAP5 dual-core chip is underclocked to 800 MHz, while the competing Cortex-A9 is clocked at 1.3 GHz.

The fact that the dual-core OMAP5 so easily defeated the Cortex-A9 quad-core chip exemplifies the “less is more” theme packed into the tiny 28nm chip. Of course, these 28nm dual-core SoCs won’t be out until the very end of 2012. That’s a massive (year-long) leap from the release of the Cortex-A9 quad-core chips.

Are you more excited for the Cortex-A15 chips or new quad-core A9 chips? Let us know in the comments.