NVIDIA Quad-Core Tegra 3 Chip Sets New Standards of Mobile Computing

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NVIDIA today ushered in the era of quad-core mobile computing with the introduction of the NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 processor, bringing PC-class performance levels, better battery life and improved mobile experiences to tablets and phones. The world's first quad-core tablet with the Tegra 3 processor is the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime. Known previously by the codename "Project Kal-El," the Tegra 3 processor provides up to 3x the graphics performance of Tegra 2, and up to 61 percent lower power consumption. This translates into an industry-leading 12 hours of battery life for HD video playback.
 
Been waiting on this for almost a year. First tablet I am seriously considering a purchase of (probably waiting for the Win7 or 8 version).
 
The only thing I hope this does better at is HD playback vs Tegra2. The Tegra2 is good enough as it is. I hope the power consumption is accurate.
 
and I just bought the first Tegra 2 tablet less than a year ago.

What was the point of putting that chip out again if you was replacing it 6 months later?
 
Cube said:
and I just bought the first Tegra 2 tablet less than a year ago.

What was the point of putting that chip out again if you was replacing it 6 months later?
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everyone of their chips are on a year cycle, don't blame nvidia for its partners to take too long to implement it.
 
It'll be interesting to see if Nvidia will ever bring Tegra to desktops, but clocked much higher.
 
That's good that it's more powerful, because a lot of non-Nvidia mobile graphics were eating Nvidia's lunch.
 
Asus Transformer Prime goes on sale early Dec for $499, features Gorilla Glass, Aluminum body, 32gig standard with 7 hours of use, 12 hours standby ( I think ) and of course features the Tegra 3. From what I've been reading, it destroys any pad out there period. Ships with 3.2 but it's getting ICS very soon. Tons of other features. It's THE pad to own. Oh, and it's thinner than the Galaxy and iPad 2.
 
Thanks for the link, getting more and more excited about ARM as time goes on.
 
Damn -- I want one of these. I have been holding my breath for a while waiting for Kal El. I was uber impressed when a PC game developer took the Made For nVidia game and ported it to Android in about a month. I guess the APIs are similar between the desktop GPUs and the new Kal El processor. Enough to get excited about..
 
Cube said:
and I just bought the first Tegra 2 tablet less than a year ago.

What was the point of putting that chip out again if you was replacing it 6 months later?
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$. Welcome to the wonderful world of computers.
 
gathagan said:
Charles has made a career out of bashing NVIDIA.
His opinion on Tegra 3 is worth as much as that of the bag lady I saw today.
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QFT.

I was about to say "panhead" you really still read Charlie's BS? lol
Then it hit home...he DID say "Another point of view" ;)
And it very certainly is that!! (Nothing like protecting your share values I guess rofl)
 
I would retire my 7" Galaxy Tab for this. Now I know what I want besides my two front teeth.....
 
After using my Tegra 2 phone for close to 1 year & being underwhelmed, I'll admit I'm wary on the performance claims of the Tegra 3, especially the GPU.

The driver integration with Android on the Tegra 2 has been far below what I was expecting, disappointing even, based on nvidia's relatively good drivers with their graphics card.
 
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