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Who cares about a tablet/cell phone's CPU? It's the GPU that matters. So I buy an Nvidia Tegra2 chipset, it happens to have an ARM tucked in the corner. I buy
by excuse-me 14y ago
Who cares about a tablet/cell phone's CPU?
It's the GPU that matters.
So I buy an Nvidia Tegra2 chipset, it happens to have an ARM tucked in the corner. I buy an Atom and it has the latest in a long line of Intel embedded GPUS stuck int he corner as an afterthought
- dmm 14y agoThe latest Atom SoCs have PowerVR GPUs.
- mtgx 14y agoOld ones. Almost 2 generations old. They can barely get half of the performance of any other current high-end chip, and Mali T604 and Adreno 320 should be out in a few months with another 2-3x increase in performance.
- alecco 14y agoThis makes no sense. They are adding more CPU cores to newer models. Are you saying that isn't useful?
- excuse-me 14y agoIt depends what compute tasks you are using your mobile for If the heaviest tasks are playing HD video, using webgl or playing 3D games then the GPU matters most. If you are using your cell phone for massively parralel computation fluid dynamic simulation of nuclear weapons - then that's still the GPU. If you are using it for I/O bound limited multi-tasking like database access or payroll processing then a 4core CPU is best.
- seanalltogether 14y agoI completely agree. Pushing pixels is WAY more expensive then executing general code in a mobile app (and usually in desktop apps too). Deserializing a view structure and presenting it to the screen is going to be limited by i/o and gpu drawing. Data crunching just isn't a big thing on mobile devices, aside from game physics or potentially custom video/image processing.