These situations are called "stalls" or "waits"; CPU is spun up, but it's not retiring instructions (doing work): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_state
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...which means that one of the worst effects of the cores-not-caches tradeoff in this phone is that it loses *power efficiency* too.
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The best trade in mobile CPU design today is to swap caches for cores (looking at you
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So how slow is the
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...and they all score like this: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/4478849
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This is 8-9x slower than the iPhone 8: https://browser.geekbench.com/ios_devices/51
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Because Android-SoC makers ship to the low-end segment of the market and do a bad job in all market segments.
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These devices should be 2-core with ~2-4MB L3.
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That's really sad. Is there a decent Android alternative?
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Nope! CC'd chip vendors have massively failed at the high end. *So* embarrassing for them. 


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