qualcomms S4 will be a quad core 2.5 GHz, 28 nm process krait (apparently equivalent to a ARM A15 core…ill believe it when i see it) running an equally crappy GPU.  

GPU aside, the comparison is quite clear.

either way, im extremely excited for both companies.  the tegra 3s already lookin old and its not even released yet…

what i would like to see is qualcomm putting higher precedence on their adreno gpu.  right now, theyre still a bit of an underdog, but with these CPU improvements (granted they push them out quick enough) will start making them a scary alternative to ARM holdings.  especially considering that qualcomm has complete ownership of all the overhead of the snapdragon chipset, their equivalent production costs are MUCH lower.  Megaflops are nice to a point, but when we get high enough up there, graphic performance and battery life are going to start taking bigger roles.  i would imagine all ARM based CPUs have a leg up in battery life (even if qualcomm claims otherwise) simply because of the A7 cores.  but imgtec gpus still decimate the competition, not even the mali can stand up against it, much less the Adreno (i believe a 50% increase in graphics processing of the adreno 220 is still inferior to the current SGX 543…and imgtec is coming out with a new generation soon…texas instruments is, from what i remember, the only soc company on android planning on using powerVR gpus…and google just signed them as the flagship chipsets for the galaxy nexus and android 4.0…coincedence hmm?? (tho admiteddly, the chipset on the galaxy nexus is a big phat disappointment, but im sure everyone reading this page is geek enough to already know that)

we’re going to end up facing the same physical barriers intel faced 3 years ago anyway.  once we start hitting the 3.0 GHz clock speeds, increased speed grants only minimal performance increases and ridiculously high power consumption and heat gain.  and considering these are low power CPUs, im not even sure hitting 3.0 GHz is even currently plausible… when that time comes (which i expect to be late next year) the man with the best battery life and graphics performance will be king of the hill…

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4940/qualcomm-new-snapdragon-s4-msm8960-krait-architecture

Quite technical, but maybe you learn to look behind GHz and core count. This will be the first next gen mobile cpu and first using 28 nm tech. Currently it looks the Krayt will be the new king for a while.