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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. Re:Thank you Captain Obvious by stephentyrone · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If anything, the news is that the iPad2 actually *wins* in half of the linked benchmarks.

  2. Performance is one important attribute... by Tau+Neutrino · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Uh-huh. And what effect does all this high performance have on the containing tablet's battery life?

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  3. Re:You know why Apple's winning? It's not about sp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I work for a company that does marketing for both Apple and Android manufacturers. Trust me, they all have great marketing teams and big budgets. The success of the products isn't as simple as marketing.

    The difference is that Apple takes the time to do both hardware AND software specifically so that they can build a unified consistent experience. Whereas Android manufacturers just slap the Android OS on the hardware and hope for the best.

    To counter your anecdotes, time and time again I hear people bitching about their Android devices because it's slow, or software is buggy and inconsistent, or UI is confusing, etc. I think it's pretty telling that the "touch" event in the Android API is called "click".

  4. Re:You know why Apple's winning? It's not about sp by Karlt1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    People putting up with the lack of flash on iOS continue to amaze me.

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57321157-264/adobe-abandons-flash-plug-in-for-mobile-devices-report/

    hmmm.... compare that to the iPad experience and you end up making a separate iPad version of your app

    No, you make one app with resources for both. Developers choose to separate apps.

    As a result I had full SSL VPN capability on my Android phone pretty much from the beginning while the feature is still lacking on iOS,

    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1288

    You see all the accessories as a good thing which I find strange.

    Strangely that doesn't seem like a solution for my car or gym equipment,,,,,