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To: Doren who wrote (3145)	3/13/2011 10:48:32 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 3170

Nvidia confirms quad-core Tegra 3 chip in tablets by August(BENCHMARKS, CHARTS, VIDEOS, ROADMAP) Feb. 16, 2011 (9:00 am) By: Matthew Humphries geek.com Last month a rumor was sparked by a comment made by Nvidia’s Tegra platform manager that hinted at a Tegra 3 announcement during the Mobile World Congress. That rumor turns out to be true as Nvidia has indeed just announced a quad-core Tegra 3 chip. The latest iteration of the system-on-a-chip (SoC) is known internally at Nvidia as Kal-El. Samples of Tegra 3 are also thought to be shipping out already. To demonstrate that Tegra 3 is a real product ready to go, demos were shown of the new chip running in a prototype Android tablet. The first demo sees a 2560 x 1440 stream decoded and played in real-time on the tablet and can be seen in the video above. A second demo aimed to show off the new 12-core GPU capabilities with 650 enemies running around in Great Battles Medieval without the hardware breaking a sweat. That same demo is seen stuttering on an equivalent Tegra 2 tablet. If you thought Tegra 2 was great, expect double the processing performance from Tegra 3 and triple the GPU performance. Nvidia also did a couple of its own benchmarks away from the MWC show floor demonstrating just how fast Kal-El is both in terms of processor performanc and web browsing using all four cores. That extra performance does not come at the cost of battery life according the Nvidia. The company states a typical Tegra 3 tablet will still be able to manage 12 hours of HD video playback. Nvidia also took the opportunity to share its roadmap for the Tegra platform over the next 3 years. After Kal-El we will see Wayne, Logan and then Stark projects come to fruition. If Nvidia stick with this roadmap then in 2014 the Stark chip will be offering a 75x performance improvement over Tegra 2. If true, we can only imagine what tablets will be capable of doing by then. If you want Tegra 3 in a tablet then you only need wait until August when Nvidia state consumer products will ship. Smartphones won’t get it until the end of the year.

To: Doren who wrote (3145)	3/13/2011 10:52:26 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to 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.