Ravynmagi posted:

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Apparently it has no name. They just announced it as "The new iPad". Hmm... so what the hell do we call this thing next year when another "new iPad" is released?

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Ravynmagi posted:

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Okay, open your damn Apple store, let me pre-order and go to lunch now.

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IvanDF posted:

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well looks like I will probably get this for my fiance, anyone know if amazon will let you preorder ?

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Ookane posted:

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I'll need some hard, independent testing to show that this is FOUR times faster than the Tegra 3, and if I had to wager, I would think that is cherry picking the best and worst test cases comapring each, not an across the board thing.

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Ravynmagi posted:

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Ookane posted:

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I'll need some hard, independent testing to show that this is FOUR times faster than the Tegra 3, and if I had to wager, I would think that is cherry picking the best and worst test cases comapring each, not an across the board thing.

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If they are talking about graphics performance (and I am pretty sure they are), I think it's very likely true. Nvidia has really been sucking at graphics performance in their Tegra processors.

In this Anandtech review of the Transformer Prime with a Tegra 3 vs the iPad 2, the iPad 2's GPU just stomps all over the newer Tegra 3.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5163/asus-eee-pad-transformer-prime-nvidia-tegra-3-review/3

So it's very plausible that in OpenGL, the iPad 3 may be up to 4 times faster than the Tegra 3. Though in more realistic conditions it may be merely 2 or 3 times faster.

Sadly for Android, we probably have to wait until after summer before we see the next gen graphics cores come out that might challenge this.

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Ookane posted:

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1 test was close to twice as fast, another was only about 25% faster, and the rest were pretty much neck and neck. Got to love hand picking what results you want to show

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Ravynmagi posted:

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Ookane posted:

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1 test was close to twice as fast, another was only about 25% faster, and the rest were pretty much neck and neck. Got to love hand picking what results you want to show

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Marketing people are definitely going to handpick. But still last year's iPad 2's GPU easily beats this year's Tegra 3 in every test. There is no question the PowerVR SGX543MP4 is going to absolutely demolish and mop the floor with the Tegra 3 in GPU performance. And of course the iPad will need that power to game on such a high resolution display.

Tegra 3's GPU is sufficient for 1280x800 displays. Gets a bit more questionable on tablets with 1920x1200 displays if you are gaming.

But for the most part Android tablets, while improving the CPU performance have severely neglected the GPU performance. While Apple has made that a priority because so much of it's UI has been GPU accelerated for a long time and Google is slowly been moving there.

All the ARM manufactures are releasing 32nm SoCs this year. Qualcomm's first S4 unfortunately still uses an old GPU, but will be refreshed after the second half of the year with a much improved GPU. Samsung's Exynos 5 series I believe will have a GPU right away and might arrive before Summer time. The TI OMAP 5 is going to feature the same GPU Apple used last year. I'm doubtful any of these GPUs will catch up to what Apple is using this year.

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IvanDF posted:

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I still think no matter the resolution on a tablet, eink will be better on the eyes for reading. Especially if you sit in front of a computer at work all day already.

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Tai-Daishar_MT posted:

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Frankly, they should not have even bothered with a 16GB version (in this day and age, that simply isn't anywhere enough) and took the opportunity to move to a 32/64/128 GB standard.

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