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To: waitwatchwander who wrote (109672)	2/18/2012 9:55:40 AM
From: slacker711	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 197035

Qualcomm Ousts NVIDIA from Full HD ASUS Transformer Prime TF700T The change is noted as being due to higher memory bandwidth. That sounds like an area where nVidia should have had an advantage. Is the turtle catching the hare? Simply awesome. Switching the processors might be why the TF700t isnt due until June. There were some references to the single channel memory bandwidth in initial Tegra3 reviews but I had no idea about the real world implications. anandtech.com Memory Interface: Still Single Channel, DDR3L-1500 SupportedTegra 3 supports higher frequency memories than Tegra 2 did, but the memory controller itself is mostly unchanged from the previous design. While Tegra 2 supported LPDDR2 at data rates of up to 600MHz, Tegra 3 increases that to LPDDR2-1066 and DDR3-L is supported at data rates of up to 1500MHz. The memory interface is still only 32-bits wide, resulting in far less theoretical bandwidth than Apple's A5, Samsung's Exynos 4210, TI's OMAP 4, or Qualcomm's upcoming MSM8960. This is particularly concerning given the increase in core count as well as GPU execution resources. NVIDIA doesn't expect memory bandwidth to be a limitation, but I can't see how that wouldn't be the case in 3D games. Perhaps it's a good thing that Infinity Blade doesn't yet exist for Android. The iPad3 is going to make high density displays standard on high-end tablets. It will be a very nice opening for Krait if Tegra3 cant support those kinds of resolutions. Slacker

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