Phones aren't going to undergo an enormous shift in CPU power between this year and next year. They got a lot more powerful over the last several years because phones were allowed to use more and more power. This could happen for two reasons - one is that it was balanced by improvements in idle/light usage power consumption, the other is that phones have gotten moderately larger. These days they're pushing at power limits, it's normal for a phone to undergo thermal throttling when under heavy CPU utilization for more than a very short period of time. Larger/thicker devices with more cooling like nVidia's Shield are allowing better performance than their phone counterparts, but not a huge amount.Howdareme wrote:Phone's will be the same level as pc's next year.
Same thing happened on desktops, it's why over the last several years both CPU and GPU performance improvements have slowed down a lot. But decent sized laptops still allow ~10 times the maximum power consumption as phones, desktops allow a lot more than that. That doesn't mean you get 10x the performance (perf/W efficiency scaling doesn't work that way) but you still end up with something that can get a lot faster.