Thursday, December 01, 2011

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

From Slashdot:




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



"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."

More about the actual chip.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-superchip.html

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