Android CPU quad or hexa?

OK, thinking of upgrading my old Android to newer one.

One is a Samsung Galaxy S5 Sport: Quad-core, 2500 MHz
another is a LG G4: 1.8 GHz Hexa-Core Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ processor

Would the 2.4 be faster in my needs since it has faster speed overall? From what I read so far more cores aren't the best either if the apps don't really use that many to start with? So anyone with these know more about these two phone? And can they upgrade to 6.0??

 

Android and mobile ARM devices aren't like desktop processors, alot goes into consideration for SOCs. I believe the S5 has an 805 and the LG G4 has an 808. The only benefits of the 808 over the 805 is being 64 bit and it being 20 nm fab while the 805 is 32 bit and 28 nm. But another thing to consider is Samsung's images are always bloating with TouchWiz, and that didn't take a big step in improvement until the S6.

 

Not sure what TouchWiz means?

 

The Apple A9 is an ARM and it is only Dual Core, and it kicks the ass of every other soc out there, more cores don't mean more power, more likely more complication causes more problems, If i had a choose i would go dual core or quad core.

John.

 

phone cpus with more cores arent just more cores. usually they'll have some full powered cores for use when you're doing heavy tasks like gaming, then smaller lower powered cores for use when you're just texting or something to save on battery life, and the bigger cores will be disabled. the 808 for example has 2 full powered cores and 4 smaller cores. all 6 cores can be active at the same time, but you'll have a hard time finding an android applicaition that can actually use all 6 cores.

 

according to anandtech, android actually makes use of additional cores up to 8! its way more parallelized than, say, windows and can thus run way more efficiently on multi-core systems. id definitely recommend the LG G4 between those two, as its also more likely to receive the marshmallow update also, u can head to notebookcheck and check out their benchmark charts for mobile SoCs, including cpu and gpu performance

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The LG G4 will be substantially faster than the S5 Sport. The Sport doesn't use the Snapdragon 805, it uses the older Snapdragon 801 which is significantly slower than the LG G4.

The LG G4 beats the Snapdragon 801 equipped G3 in every metric

http://www.phonearena.com/news/LG-G4-benchmarked---how-does-the-Snapdragon-808-fare_id68814