Re:Apple A5X quad-core confusion, explained
by tikhonj on Thursday March 08, 2012 @05:50PM
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He did not provide evidence that the iPad 2 is 2x faster than Tegra 3--rather, he showed that on one benchmark that isn't entirely relevant it performs twice as well. His theory is that the new model is 4x faster on that benchmark. But the real point is that the particular benchmark is of limited utility.
> The new iPad is a Dual-Core tablet with a graphics engine that is 2X the speed of the iPad 2
out of nowhere. 2X? He just provided evidence that the iPad 2 is 2x faster than Tegra 3 - it's obvious the new one must be at least 4x faster since it's driving four times more pixels (they wouldn't launch a new iPad that performs worse), and that would make it even more than 4X faster than nvidia.