10 of the best octa-core smartphones available now

As of last year, we have smartphones that pack processors with more cores than lots of high-end PCs or laptops. Sure enough, more cores don’t necessarily bring more speed. There are plenty of factors that influence how smooth a smartphone works - including the technology used by its chipset (regardless of the number of cores it has), the amount of RAM, and how well the UI is optimized. Nevertheless, it’s fascinating to look at how fast things are evolving in the mobile world. If you wanted to buy a multi-core smartphone in 2010, you had 0 (zero) options to choose from. Now, less than fours years later, there are quite a lot of different models that feature octa-core processors (all running Android), and we’ll present some of the best among them below.



Besides the handsets included in our list, there are many other octa-core smartphones available in Asia (mostly in China and India), all using MediaTek chipsets. But they’re made by companies that aren’t well-known internationally, so they’re not of interest to us.



In chronological order:

Samsung Galaxy S4

While the US variants of the Galaxy S4 have quad-core Snapdragon processors, the European and Korean models feature Samsung’s Exynos 5 Octa 5410 CPU. Yes, the S4 is an ex-flagship handset that’s more than one year old, but it can still be a great option for anyone who doesn’t mind that newer and more powerful flagships are now making headlines.