yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 4 General] sordna:
No, don't worry about it. The only difference is the amount of undervolting you can do, and it's not even conclusive on whether the so-called slow can do more or less undervolting than the others! You won't see a difference in the user experience, or even in benchmarks between the different bin types.
[Nexus 4 General] Muikkuman:
That's good to hear, my was binned slow boot now I know that there may be hope.
[Nexus 4 General] sambaeallegria:
Got 1 on 4.3. ATM my CPU can handle -137,5mv all the way.
[Nexus 4 General] Muikkuman:
My only seem to handle -50 mV
[Nexus 4 General] feedtheducks:
Noon question: wat r u guys using to control the voltages? I'm on 10.2 w/ franko.
[Nexus 4 General] keviv77:
Trickster mod. Its free
[Nexus 4 General] spider623:
The one and a half month of waiting for it to come worth it, fastest!
[Nexus 4 General] davidbar93:
Mine is slow ,it runs super stable with -125 undervolt.
[Nexus 4 General] clockworkstop:
Nominal, even though I bought it only a few months ago :(

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] mylord92:
Mine is slow and still working well under -100mv :)
[Nexus 4 General] psycho693:
:D
[Nexus 4 General] KiiKeEp:
Got 1 on 4.3 I think is nominal :/
[Nexus 4 General] Richieboy67:
From the posts in this thread it is clear that this binning means nothing in terms of usage.

Sent from my shiny new(bought last Nov), scratch less Nexus 4!
[Nexus 4 General] pikachukaki:
Why it didnt work on me....and i had done this when i buy the phone...i found out i had fast but i can't go above -100mv....
[Nexus 4 General] KiiKeEp:
Reboot your phone and try again.
[Nexus 4 General] pikachukaki:
Ok it worked...i have 3..thats fast...so why i can't go above -100mv
[Nexus 4 General] clockworkstop:
My cpu binning just ****ing changed from nominal to slow -.-

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] davidbar93:
Mine showed nominal on 4.2.2 ,after 4.3 upgrade it shows slow.
[Nexus 4 General] clockworkstop:
Yeah, but I've been on 4.3 for a while now and it's always been nominal. Strange.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] Killermo:
Noob question ; the uv can damage de hw? Mine shows as slow, but I put it in - 100mv global without problems it all

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] clockworkstop:
Try running -50mV for about a month, then you can slowly go below that. The safest way.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] mickaaa:
So my former 8GB N4 was Fast and could handle -175mV but I had artefacts appearing on photos I took with it.

I gave it to my sister and bought the 16GB two weeks ago.

It appears that my result is now ACPU PVS: 1 so it should be slow.

However it can handle -200mV and I still haven't reach the minimum voltage :D
[Nexus 4 General] THEBANDIT420:
I was fast binned on 4.2.2 but now it says I'm faster so I'm guessing it's not very accurate
[Nexus 4 General] Assis Brandão:
what is mine?

Enviado de meu Nexus 4 usando o Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 4 General] :
Fastest
[Nexus 4 General] Assis Brandão:
compared to others he is good?

Enviado de meu GT-P6210 usando o Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 4 General] Abaddon:
fastest, same as mine
[Nexus 4 General] Killermo:
Actually look like that slow is the better one for UV, and the rarest too.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] sordna:
I beileve that. Mine is a FAST (3) and I can only undervolt by 125. At -150 I got a reboot within a few minutes while in the gallery.
[Nexus 4 General] dethrat:
Mine is fastest
[Nexus 4 General] Snyper0012:
Yay fastest :)
[Nexus 4 General] zorbakun:
I've slow and I can UV with -150 and it's rock stable.
[Nexus 4 General] Richieboy67:
Wait a sec... Are you guys saying slow is the best to have now or just for uv?

Would be pretty funny for all the guys that rma'd because of the slow bin. :banghead:

Sent from my shiny new(bought last Nov), scratch less Nexus 4!
[Nexus 4 General] KiD3991:
Oh please, I'm slow, I can -200mv, achieve 2 days of usage, more than 5 hours of SOT. And to me its still blazing fast and stable.
[Nexus 4 General] CamoGeko:
No lol

A lot of people misunderstand whatever they read nowadays.

All this CPU Binning tells us is what the CPU is rated, not necessarily how much its UV stable or whatever..
[Nexus 4 General] ICheckmateI:
:( slow
[Nexus 4 General] Igotsanevo4g:
I can't get it to tell me anything! It just goes to a blank line :(

Edit: faster :D
[Nexus 4 General] SpasilliumNexus:
Slow according to Franco.Kernel Updater and command (1), and have undervolted -195 everywhere stable.
[Nexus 4 General] Up_In_Space:
Mine is fast, but anyone knows how to make it change to faster?
[Nexus 4 General] endursa:
yep you need to disassamble the phone then order a faster rated chip directly from qualcomm, afterwards you ned to take a soldering oven, to replace the SoC on your bord with the newly ordered one, and pray that your phone still works!

after that you have now successfully upgraded to faster!

[/sarcasm]
[Nexus 4 General] CamoGeko:
Lol, perfect answer.
[Nexus 4 General] Killermo:
Fast is better than faster Lol

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] aney1:
Slow SoCs can be better undervolted because the stock voltage is higher...

Don't post how much you have undervolted, post the resulting voltage!
[Nexus 4 General] MuertoKo:
Was thinking that exactly, as it was like that on S3 but could find reports of real voltages nor had the time to check in code myself xD

384MHz - 750mV

1512MHz - 1050mV

That's - 125mV undervolted on my fast binded chip

Enviado desde mi Nexus 4 usando Tapatalk
[Nexus 4 General] CamoGeko:
I'm on FAST too and I've got stability at:

384 - 725mV

1512 - 1025mV

I'm on Franco kernel btw :)
[Nexus 4 General] keikun007:
mine says pvs:4 what that means?
[Nexus 4 General] CamoGeko:
Faster
[Nexus 4 General] zygis10:
Yay than mine is faster too :cool:
[Nexus 4 General] CamoGeko:
You've overtaken me then. ;)

Mine is Fast.
[Nexus 4 General] dethrat:
Mines faster bin and 1.51ghz 975mv, 384mhz 700mv rock stable for the last 2 weeks or so.
[Nexus 4 General] EotT:
fastest cpu.

162000 kHz: 600000 uVolts

270000 kHz: 600000 uVolts

378000 kHz: 600000 uVolts

384000 kHz: 600000 uvolts

432000 kHz: 600000 uVolts

486000 kHz: 600000 uVolts

540000 kHz: 600000 uVolts

594000 kHz: 600000 uVolts

648000 kHz: 600000 uVolts

756000 kHz: 600000 uVolts

810000 kHz: 600000 uVolts

864000 kHz: 600000 uVolts

918000 kHz: 600000 uVolts

972000 kHz: 600000 uVolts

1026000 kHz: 600000 uVolts

1080000 kHz: 600000 uVolts

1134000 kHz: 862500 uVolts

1188000 kHz: 887500 uVolts

1242000 kHz: 887500 uVolts

1296000 kHz: 912500 uVolts

1350000 kHz: 912500 uVolts

1404000 kHz: 937500 uVolts

1458000 kHz: 950000 uVolts

1512000 kHz: 975000 uVolts

I'm going to try to get the higher frequencies a bit lower. For now, everything is stable.
[Nexus 4 General] harsh.ea:
I'm on fastest too but unable to go below 750 on lowest frequency, and corresponding.

__________________

neXus 4

| TWRP 2.6.3.0

| stock Rom 4.3

| Franco kernel r184
[Nexus 4 General] EotT:
Maybe I'm lucky? What about the other frequencies (the higher ones)?

For some weird reason, I need a lot more power to get from 1080000kHz to 1134000kHz.
[Nexus 4 General] harsh.ea:
On franco as mentioned in my signature. So bought the minimum voltage to 700 by reducing all by 25. U can do the math.

__________________

neXus 4

| TWRP 2.6.3.0

| stock Rom 4.3

| Franco kernel r184
[Nexus 4 General] EotT:
I'm using the latest version of this kernel: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2342175. But anarkia1976 removed the downloads, so you cannot download it anymore. I can survive 4-5 days on a full battery charge, while having 5 hours SOT.
[Nexus 4 General] harsh.ea:
Whoa! Which one to flash? Confusing op

__________________

neXus 4

| TWRP 2.6.3.0

| stock Rom 4.3

| Franco kernel r184
[Nexus 4 General] EotT:
He removed the downloads because he is working on another kernel. I have the latest version downloaded on my nexus, but it is for a JSS build, so I guess that's not good for you since you are on stock android.
[Nexus 4 General] harsh.ea:
I'll wait :thumbup:

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neXus 4

| TWRP 2.6.3.0

| stock Rom 4.3

| Franco kernel r184
[Nexus 4 General] hungrymr2:
PVS 3: fast
[Nexus 4 General] ame316:
Hey, mine was nominal and now is slow. What happened??

Inviato dal mio Nexus 4 con Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 4 General] GEKTHEBOSS:
Upgrade to 4.3?
[Nexus 4 General] ame316:
Maybe, i can't remember. Why?

Inviato dal mio Nexus 4 con Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 4 General] ame316:
Sorry for the double post but now my CPU is nominal again. I've flashed a vanir update and neo kernel.

Inviato dal mio Nexus 4 con Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 4 General] EfrainTrejo:
According to Franco updater mines fastest is that good or not? Why does it matter?
[Nexus 4 General] Richieboy67:
It doesn't matter. It is just how they get the CPUs to spec.

Sent from my shiny new(bought last Nov), scratch less Nexus 4!
[Nexus 4 General] RASTAVIPER:
Got same issue.

Probably our cpu changed profile?
[Nexus 4 General] Stark X:
LOL no , not possible as binning is defined at the time of manufacturing ! Though your issue seems to be very strange :eek:
[Nexus 4 General] ame316:
I swear to god, man.

Inviato dal mio Nexus 4 con Tapatalk now Free
[Nexus 4 General] jadephyre:
the command in the OP does nothing for me...
[Nexus 4 General] Echelonex:
Yeah it doesnt work for me too, what gives...?
[Nexus 4 General] Hidden Username:
Umm wat?
[Nexus 4 General] s00000000000ka:
My new N4
[Nexus 4 General] kastenfroschhonk:
Slow, arrrg.

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 4 mit Tapatalk
[Nexus 4 General] RASTAVIPER:
So any explanation for this changing profile behavior?

Also I can't make It stable with UV of more than -125
[Nexus 4 General] ame316:
So any explanation for this changing profile behavior?

Also I can't make It stable with UV of more than -125

+1 mine is slow again after flashing a ROM. Same android version.

Inviato dal mio Nexus 4 con Tapatalk
[Nexus 4 General] okanb3:
"dmesg | grep PVS" command doesn't show anything on my N4, any idea?

Edit: I did "su"
[Nexus 4 General] Muikkuman:
Try to do it right after a reboot.
[Nexus 4 General] Thibaultvw:
And what does this mean?
[Nexus 4 General] Hidden Username:
I had that too, means "faster"
[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
can we tell nex7 has faster cpu banning also ?

Via Google voice Δ |\|€×u$™ 7 FHD on Tapatalk²
[Nexus 4 General] TheNerd:]:
I got a faster. Don't know how to vote through tapatalk
[Nexus 4 General] RUGGNATION:
Anyone know why my CPU speed would change in the Franco app from nominal to slow when going from PSX to Purity which are both 4.3 ROMs?
[Nexus 4 General] Emama:
How come it change when using different kernel?

When I check it with hellscore kernel it is faster,

But is shows as Fast when I use franco:confused:
[Nexus 4 General] ame316:
The same happen to me. From nominal to slow.

Inviato dal mio Nexus 4 con Tapatalk
[Nexus 4 General] c4r10s:
Halo, I am using Franco kernel and I have the CPU "Fastest"!. What it means. It has also someone?
[Nexus 4 General] sordna:
Folks, it's totally irrelevant. Your CPU remains the same, whether one kernel interprets the bin number, for example 2, as slow or fastest.

Don't change your phone, and don't change your ROM or kernel due to this.
[Nexus 4 General] UCLAKoolman:
delete
[Nexus 4 General] Dark_Eyes:
number 3. this is fast?
[Nexus 4 General] ctakah27:
Hmm..

Number 1!!!
[Nexus 4 General] bigolebeemer:
my 8gb purchased in aug13 is 3/fast

16gb purchased in sep13 is 4/faster

I get a 100mv UV out of the fast and 150mv UV from the faster bin
[Nexus 4 General] Dark_Eyes:
16gb purchased in 8nov, but on the sn on the box made in october
[Nexus 4 General] Firstinout:
Mine says 1 is that supposed to mean faster?
[Nexus 4 General] Dark_Eyes:
no, nominal.

should be added to the OP type for numbers
[Nexus 4 General] opssemnik:
i got number 3, but im able to undervolt -175mv fine at 1.5ghz running ak kernel 116 and slimkat(on my old n4 i got 0 when i tried, its a good thing that i sent to rma and got a new one :P)
[Nexus 4 General] steadly2004:
Doesn't seem to work on KK4.4, or am I missing something. Worked before. Maybe it's the ART not paying nice with terminal emulator?
[Nexus 4 General] pejakovic1:
I have type fast and im able to uv -150 on franco kernel latest :)
[Nexus 4 General] mantakos:
Hey guys, mine is Faster type and my minimum voltage is 1025 [MENTION=1528666]151[/MENTION]2 mhz. Dont know if it should go lower. At 1000mv it reboots.
[Nexus 4 General] Weedalot:
Hey, it doesn't give me any output
[Nexus 4 General] Ninad Sarang:
Mine is FAST with PA 4 and faux kernal :D
[Nexus 4 General] yak84:
cpu pvs: faster, uv by 125mV ,the phone is stable and no decrease in performance whatsoever.
[Nexus 4 General] Wassupdog:
I got PVS 1, is it slow?
[Nexus 4 General] misal6666:
i got 4.. does it mean faster or slow?
[Nexus 4 General] montbazon:
Faster

Gesendet von meinem Nexus S mit Tapatalk
[Nexus 4 General] Snothy:
Awesome I got Faster (4). Overclocked to 1.8ghz UV -100 all freq
[Nexus 4 General] ScumDroid:
i have 4
[Nexus 4 General] shinobu13:
Mine got 4 before when I am using faux kernel 031m.

Before -125mV

Now it says "FASTEST" since I flashed franco.Kernel -r201

Undervolted -150mV

Fast and Stable under ART
[Nexus 4 General] tsavman:
Ι got 4, meaning faster :good:
[Nexus 4 General] :
fastest

Inviato dal mio Nexus 4 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Nexus 4 General] rest0ck:
It says "1" on my new Nexus 4 (RMA). Had a fast one before. Was anyone able to compare 2 Nexus 4's with different binning? I have 2 here atm but I already made a hard reset and I'll send it back tomorrow.
[Nexus 4 General] god.fsl:
303K >>> Faster
[Nexus 4 General] lndulgence:
Is it too late to participate on this thread? Mine's "Fast", and not even a second i doubted my N4 :D
[Nexus 4 General] Henric.:
Mine's "fast" aswell.
[Nexus 4 General] howard bamber:
I get "dgrep not found"

broken pipe.

Any ideas?

Sent using reversed alien technology...
[Nexus 4 General] BlackFire27:
Got 1. Not even slightly surprised.
[Nexus 4 General] SneakyGuyDavid:
My previous Nexus 4 (Rev 10) was Fast, my new nexus 4 (Rev 11) is Faster
[Nexus 4 General] scream4cheese:
reboot and try again
[Nexus 4 General] Ginel:
mine sayz unknown whyyyyyyy? whats this mean how to make it right ?

nowone can help me with other metod to see my cpu binning ?
[Nexus 4 General] Ginel:
using franco 203 and purity 7/02
[Nexus 4 General] pappyN4:
one more for Fast
[Nexus 4 General] CamoGeko:
Are you sure you got root access?

Tried rebooting?
[Nexus 4 General] Ginel:
yes have root, restarted and work now. fastest thx so much :D
[Nexus 4 General] consolation:
Ignore, I'm going to do some more testing..
[Nexus 4 General] toyr99:
i've fast ;)
[Nexus 4 General] MATRIKS:
What is pvs 4
[Nexus 4 General] nexuspur:
i have got a tip for some of you who cant read what type they have. go and install semaphore manager from playstore. then klick on undervolting and above the undervolting table you can see your type of cpu. btw mine has got faster pvs4.
[Nexus 4 General] MATRIKS:
Ok i've PVS 4 fastest
[Nexus 4 General] mmas0n:
For what it's worth, mine is "slow" but runs stable for almost a year now with an undervolt of -150mV across all clockspeed steps. No overclock. It is consistently cool, and despite lowering the temperature threshold to 60C, it only throttles if I try to game while charging.

Purchased May 17, 2013 from Play Store.
[Nexus 4 General] Tipper554:
I got PVS 1. what does that mean?
[Nexus 4 General] Yash985:
Got Lucky....PVS 4( Faster ) :D :D :cool:
[Nexus 4 General] midnight911:
Slow T_T
[Nexus 4 General] Almayce:
Okay i got slow, but according to the poll im the most unique! Suck it,hipster victory!:D
[Nexus 4 General] mimsiroll:
Lol, it doesnt really matter if its slow or slower, what matters most is how well the phone can manage an undervolt..even i having a faster PVS my phones limit is at -100mv..other phones lower than mine can even handle further lol.. :) we own different phone hardware so lucky for those that got better hardware :)
[Nexus 4 General] justthefacts:
Mine says unknown. What does that mean?
[Nexus 4 General] KopiJahe:
Mine is little bit weird

Last week when I bought it: Fast

Just now: Faster

Using the same kernel (hells-core), and omnirom nightlies (if it matters)
[Nexus 4 General] Oxious119:
Same here :D
[Nexus 4 General] Tbnitz:
258

Mine Says fast
[Nexus 4 General] kaninchenkatze.tt:
YES, i am Faster:p
[Nexus 4 General] Mags Power:
I have faster
[Nexus 4 General] dkownacki:
I've got only something like this in terminal emulator
[Nexus 4 General] nexuses:
Nominal :banghead::banghead::banghead:
[Nexus 4 General] dkownacki:
Anyone can confirm this? But if i ve got nominal it s very good nominal. -100 UV and everything is fine! :D
[Nexus 4 General] simms22:
I have a nominal n4, and it kicks all other n4s butts! :)
[Nexus 4 General] himzz0007:
can u share ur nexes 4 undervolting profile
[Nexus 4 General] Mr Paul:
mine says 1

What does this mean?
[Nexus 4 General] Curl3w:
i dont get any response from the terminal :/ probably because i'm running matr1x kernel, right? do i have to reflash to the stock one, to get the response?
[Nexus 4 General] CamoGeko:
Shouldn't matter.

Read the first post?

Sent from my baked potato with blue cheese
[Nexus 4 General] Mashed_Potatoes:
Nominal. Made in October 2013
[Nexus 4 General] tomasdesires:
Faster CPU

0,700 V at 81 MHz with HD2 R19 kernel
[Nexus 4 General] kimerawph2:
I just have the Faster binning (4).

Now I'm on Android L, with Semaphore Kernel 2.3.0 with a UV of 175mV. Everything works flawlessly.
[Nexus 4 General] Curl3w:
strange :S i did exactly what was suppose to do and nothing happened:

UPDATED:

i reinstalled and it "worked" (2nd screenshot,below). it says "4". is it Faster?
[Nexus 4 General] dkownacki:
What did you reinstalled?
[Nexus 4 General] Curl3w:
terminator emulator
[Nexus 4 General] gonz23:
Cool. looks like mine is fastest. Bought it just before they stopped selling them after the nexus 5 came out
[Nexus 4 General] CamoGeko:
It goes like this... I think... (1) Slow, (2) Nominal, (3) Fast, (4) Faster, (5) Fastest

Wow dude, mine is only Fast :(
[Nexus 4 General] RASTAVIPER:
No worries.

Mine is Slow and still can handle -175 Uv with Hell kernel b56.

Unleashed from Onda v957m
[Nexus 4 General] CamoGeko:
Thats a monster UV ;)
[Nexus 4 General] czito:
Mine Nexus is faster. :good:
[Nexus 4 General] simmac:
I got ACPU PVS: 4

What does that mean? Faster?
[Nexus 4 General] Aaron_Knowles:
Yup, highest you can get. Would you like to swap with me? ;)
[Nexus 4 General] vinceho:
Mine say Unknown. Is that normal, or my nexus is broked or something?:confused:
[Nexus 4 General] CamoGeko:
Maybe your Nexus was delivered from another universe?

Klingon technology ftw! :good:
[Nexus 4 General] joegestes:
dmesg | grep PVS

<6>[ 0.305356] acpuclk-8064 acpuclk-8064: ACPU PVS: Fast :good:
[Nexus 4 General] DylonSaaied:
The command doesn't work for me, I type the exact same code in and it does nothing just goes to a new line and says: 1 | root@mako: / #.

What does this mean?
[Nexus 4 General] inaqi69:
mine is PVS 4 :D
[Nexus 4 General] 350Rocket:
Faster! :)
[Nexus 4 General] 350Rocket:
Happened to me. Apparently a reboot makes it work.

---------- Post added at 07:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:18 PM ----------

Not sure if anyone else mentioned this before, but do you think someone at google is messing with us here? Maybe this is random and means nothing and they're trying to get people worked up? Lol
[Nexus 4 General] DylonSaaied:
Thanks it worked. :D PVS 3 means Fast right?
[Nexus 4 General] 350Rocket:
I think so yes. Mine said faster.
[Nexus 4 General] jacklebott:
If your 1.5GHz is stable at that voltage, the rest can probably go significantly lower. My 1.5GHz only goes to 975mV, but the rest of my voltages are much lower than the ones you showed

Mine is "Fast" with voltages:

1026000 @ 800mV

1134000 @ 837.5mV

1242000 @ 875mV

1350000 @ 912.5mV

1458000 @ 950mV

1512000 @ 975mV
[Nexus 4 General] threeclaws:
Fast - ordered at launch - 8gb - stock/rooted
[Nexus 4 General] :
I am an electronic engineer.

I work for a company that makes MOSFETs among other products.

Yesterday I went and spoke to two MOSFET designers about this (for ref, one uses an iPhone 4, one uses a Motorola Defy running CM10).

There is no correlation between how FAST a MOSFET or CPU made of MOSFETs can run and its power consumption in this context.

A processor that is binned "fast" may be able to run fast because of high shoot-through currents - even undervolting these currents will result in higher power consumption than a "slow" CPU even at higher voltage (Power is the product of voltage and current).

A processor that can run fast may be able to do so due to low gate capacitance, caused by thicker gate oxide. Thinner gate oxide will reduce the switch threshold, therefore helping undervolting. High capacitance gates will not switch quickly, but will switch at a lower voltage.

There are just two mechanisms of many that suggest that power consumption and speed bin have little influence. A "Slow" bin processor could easily be the one that uses less power (even at the same speed and voltage - eg if both set to 1GHz, 1V, the "fast" processor could be drawing more current).

DO NOT WORRY ABOUT IT.
[Nexus 4 General] ptesmoke:
Thanks for the input :) right now I'm just keeping them as a global UV so I keep the stock increments relatively close. Once I hit instability I'll likely add 12.5 MV to the upper freq and if stable start lowering the others one by one until I got them all dialed in.
[Nexus 4 General] shr33kant:
BTW if anyone is having problems getting the info to show up on Franco's kernel; using his app switch all logging back on, restart your device and try again. It worked for me.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] ptesmoke:
One does not simply draw more current under same load scenarios. Binning has nothing to do with that.

Binning is simply the separation of slightly more efficient to less efficient chips.

Efficient being "faster" ,don't let the name fool you it doesn't do anything faster it simply means it can run stable at slightly lower voltages than fast,nominal,slow binned chips.

As for consuming less power, remember ohms law? VxI = P , lower the voltage....less power. Current is a constant here.
[Nexus 4 General] jacklebott:
EDIT: Fine, I guess my joke wasn't funny
[Nexus 4 General] deviusdragger:
Second Batch 16gb
[Nexus 4 General] red12355:
Look up gate leakage. A thicker dielectric between the gate and the channel of an transistor means less leakage (I.e. current going to the xtor when its off) but it also means that the electric field is weaker so it can't operate as fast. This why Intel/AMD/Nvidia all use (or have used) their leakier chips for their higher frequency bins.

If "fast" and "faster" mean that the chip can operate at higher frequency, it could very well mean that it consumes more power. The problem is, we don't known whether "fast" means better efficiency or faster absolute speed (although the wording implies the latter).

tl;dr if you're going to accuse the ee guy of lying you might as well tell all the other engineers who design ICs that what there taught is wrong.
[Nexus 4 General] davizera:
Also Faster here
[Nexus 4 General] ShawnZhang:
yooooooooooooooooooo guys I got a FASTER XD
[Nexus 4 General] TonyHoyle:
So 'Faster' refers to how fast the battery drains? :D:D:D

(That *was* a joke, btw, before I get flamed to death)
[Nexus 4 General] FatalityBoyZahy:
FML
[Nexus 4 General] Antzor:
Fast. 16gb ordered nov 13th recieved nov 22.
[Nexus 4 General] richteralan:
This is the correct concept.
[Nexus 4 General] riprowan:
Conversely, as shipping dates slip there is a greater temptation to reach into the "slow" bin...
[Nexus 4 General] Panick_mg:
Faster for me.
[Nexus 4 General] IAmAN00bie:
So I see people are still worrying about this lol. As others have said DO NOT WORRY. Your Nexus is not inferior for having a slower binned chip. It is just a tiny voltage difference... That really doesn't make that big of a difference anyways.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] PlanBSTi:
This means you can have more room to overclock or underclock or not. It doesn't mean anything.. I'm not going brother checking mine. It's stupid. It's like grade 2 again. I'm number 1, You're a loser. lol