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The performance charts have the Surface Pro 3 listed for comparison. The article doesn't specify the chip used, but it looks like all the Surface Pro 3 use some

The performance charts have the Surface Pro 3 listed for comparison. The article doesn't specify the chip used, but it looks like all the Surface Pro 3 use some variant of an 11.5 watt Intel chip. Given the that the A9 seems to do about 1/3 slower then Surface, I'm guessing it would do very well against anything Atom based. I'm very interested to see how fast the iPad Pro's A9X ends up being. If the numbers Apple showed in the keynote are accurate, it will probably be faster then a large chunk of Intel's much more power hungry lineup.

LeoNatan25 11y ago
Apple's keynote claims have historically been accurate (within the margin of error rounded to Apple's favor).
LeoNatan25 11y ago
Of course, the difference being that the Intel tablets are capable of running full versions of Windows and Linux, and are able to take advantage of huge software library not available on the iPad Pro. Whether one sees this as an advantage or not is up to them.
- arcticbull 11y ago
  That has never been a concern for me; very little of that existing base of "full version" software is designed to be interacted with by touchscreen. That makes using it a pretty big compromise; for me, bigger than carrying around an ultra-light laptop for when I need to get "real stuff" done. As mobile platforms have become more popular, the spread between what you can do on an iPhone/iPad and what you can get done on a laptop/desktop has been shrinking. Pretty soon, it won't really matter IMO.
ajross 11y ago
The Surface is using Haswell chips (wikipedia tells me that three are available), not an Atom. And FWIW: the "11.5W" number is a TDP, not an expected power under load. Likewise that "1-2W" number above is likely to be a expected average power. I'd be shocked beyond belief if the A9 was drawing that little under instantaneous load.
- astrodust 11y ago
  Even if conservatively the Surface draws 5W and the phone 2W, it's still doing 2/3rds of the compute on less than half the power. That should really worry Intel.
szatkus 11y ago
Surface Pro 3 use chips at 22nm, but it's still impressive.

LeoNatan25 11y ago

Apple's keynote claims have historically been accurate (within the margin of error rounded to Apple's favor).

LeoNatan25 11y ago

Of course, the difference being that the Intel tablets are capable of running full versions of Windows and Linux, and are able to take advantage of huge software library not available on the iPad Pro. Whether one sees this as an advantage or not is up to them.

arcticbull 11y ago
That has never been a concern for me; very little of that existing base of "full version" software is designed to be interacted with by touchscreen. That makes using it a pretty big compromise; for me, bigger than carrying around an ultra-light laptop for when I need to get "real stuff" done. As mobile platforms have become more popular, the spread between what you can do on an iPhone/iPad and what you can get done on a laptop/desktop has been shrinking. Pretty soon, it won't really matter IMO.

ajross 11y ago

The Surface is using Haswell chips (wikipedia tells me that three are available), not an Atom. And FWIW: the "11.5W" number is a TDP, not an expected power under load. Likewise that "1-2W" number above is likely to be a expected average power. I'd be shocked beyond belief if the A9 was drawing that little under instantaneous load.

astrodust 11y ago
Even if conservatively the Surface draws 5W and the phone 2W, it's still doing 2/3rds of the compute on less than half the power. That should really worry Intel.

szatkus 11y ago

Surface Pro 3 use chips at 22nm, but it's still impressive.