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To: Doren who wrote (3145)	3/13/2011 10:52:26 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (3) of 3170

I showed you 2 out of 3 CPU benchmarks where the XOOM beats the iPad2 and A5 by 50% right now. Anandtech GPU benchmarks show that the XOOM beats the iPad A4 by a factor of 2 while the A5 beats the A4 by a factor of 3 to 4. However within 4-5 months you will have tablets based on Tegra 3 that are 5x faster than Tegra 2. That will put Tegra 3 tablets some 2-3x faster than iPad2 A5. In 2012, Tegra 4 will be 10x faster than Tegra 2 or 6-7x faster than iPad2 A5. In 2013 Tegra 5 will be 50x faster than Tegra 2 or 45-46x faster than iPad2 A5. And yes, I'm sure Apple will also be releasing new CPUs in the process but my point is by August (just 4-5 months away) the ipad2 and A5 will be considered slow for about 7 or more months. And that's not even counting all the TI, Broadcom and other dual and quad core CPUs and GPUS that would be released by then. The point is that currently that A5 is useless unless you think that Apple is heading towards a massive fragmentation where you will have specific A5 only apps that take advantage of its new capabilities. IMO, that isn't going to happen. The core capabilities of Apps will remain tailored to A4. You might get maybe better textures or shadowing in an A5 but 90+ or more of the app will run just the same on an ipad or an iPad2. A year from now Apple will also release the A6 which will be many times greater in performance than the A5. But so will NVidia, Samsung, TI, Broadcom, and who know how many others. Within a few months the A5 will look like a slow poke and I doubt you'll go rushing to buy a faster tablet than the A5 because clearly you are married to Apple.

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