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NVIDIA's Tegra 3 Outruns Apple's A5 In First Benchmarks

Posted by timothy on from the no-processor-left-behind dept.

MojoKid writes "NVIDIA's new Tegra 3 SoC (System on a Chip) has recently been released for performance reviews in the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Android tablet. Tegra 3 is comprised of a quad-core primary CPU complex with a 5th companion core for lower-end processing requirements and power management. The chip can scale up to 1.4GHz on a single core and 1.3GHz on up to four of its cores, while the companion core operates at 500MHz. It makes for a fairly impressive new tablet platform and offers performance that bests Apple's A5 dual-core processor in more than a few tests. The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime with optional keyboard dock and NVIDIA's Tegra 3 is set to be available in volume sometime around December 19th."

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  1. But by maroberts · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have the first Transformer, I'm very pleased with it.

    Does it change into a car or plane when you need it to?

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  2. It's because of CarrierIQ! by alexandre_ganso · · Score: 4, Funny

    They need faster processors to deal with CarrierIQ's overhead on looking at everything you do and sending them every keystroke.

    1. Re:It's because of CarrierIQ! by ceoyoyo · · Score: 3, Funny

      Maybe that's what the fifth core is for.

  3. Re:Not cheating, just bad metrics by billcopc · · Score: 1, Funny

    To further your argument, there's this surplus/clearance store in my city that's been trying to flog $79 Android devices for months. I've seen one of them, it has something like a 75mhz processor. People use it as an e-reader because it's too slow for anything else.

    Is that what Google had in mind when they published the Android OS ? Because I know, the day I get a bug report from someone with that shitty $79 device, my reply will consist of "Fuck Android, Fuck your shitty phone, and Fuck You!" repeated over 9000 times, followed by a picture of me taking a dump on said device.

    You can't call it a smartphone if it's dumber than Sarah Palin.

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  4. Re:You know why Apple's winning? It's not about sp by binary+paladin · · Score: 3, Funny

    This isn't even exciting anyway:

    This just in! New hardware faster than existing hardware! Read all about it!