Tegra 4 specification first exposure: the A15 architecture is 4 + core

The NVIDIA Tegra processor has just become very popular in the tablet machine and the smart phone , the VR-Zone today received some specifications about the next generation of the Tegra. The Tegra 4 codename Wayne (Batman Wayne) on the official road map is scheduled for 2012, but actually to 2013 will be launched, and most models have to wait until after a year and a half.

NVIDIA Tegra4

According to the latest intelligence, the Tegra will have four different models, but only three of which will be based on the latest ARM Cortex-A15 processor architecture, the other a will continue to follow the Tegra A9 architecture, while the core configuration or "4 - the PLUS-1 ", that is, the four main core plus a secondary core.

The first quarter of 2013, starting flagship model clocked at 1.8GHz, high-end positioning, for the 10-inch flat-panel machine equipment to the third quarter will be upgraded to 2.0GHz.

Is the same in the third quarter of next year, the two mainstream models will be available, one of the A15 architecture, clocked at 1.2-1.8GHz, still for the 10-inch flat-panel machine, market positioning will be more mainstream and even can bring cheap products The second is the A9 architecture, clocked at 1.2-2.0GHz, 7 inch tablet and smartphone-oriented, and in particular, by adding support on LTE100/HSPA42 network.

This will be the first Tegra to support LTE networks, can make up for the Tegra 3 is unable to support LTE, leading to a large number of 4G mobile phone to switch to the shortcomings of the Qualcomm platform.

As to the exact specifications of the GeForce GPU graphics core integrated in the Tegra 4, does not yet have a more accurate statement.

Obviously, until the second half of 2013 is the Tegra 4 real heat and light for the beginning of the year and a half before that will still see the Tegra 3, so come back to look at the Tegra 3 of the six models of frequency specifications, put into operation in progress.

Nvidia Tegra 3 Vs New iPad A5X: comparisons and performance comparison (video)

During the announcement of the new iPad was a slide shown by Phil Schiller on the chip used by Apple iPad for the third generation, able to get four times more performance than the competing Nvidia Tegra 3 . The guys at Laptop Mag have thus made ​​a video with the new iPad paired up with a Asus Prime Transformer to try to confirm as reported by Apple during the conference.

Using some benchmark software available for both platforms, the results have not confirmed Quantro reported by Schiller. Overall the new iPad seems to offer better performance in the field of 3D but nothing particularly striking, while analyzing graphics performance tests OpenGL 3D  chip A5X emerged victorious from the Tegra 3 on the benchmark 2.1 GLBenchmark getting about twice as many frames and four times the number of texture (texture pixels ).

In contrast, however, Tegra 3 is out head-on in bringing to fruition in the shortest time possible floating point calculations during some sessions, read and write thanks to an optimal memory usage and management of the operating system. Returning to the pure gaming performance, however, in tests conducted with Shadowgun and Riptide GP both platforms were aligned and performance offered only in the presence of optimization due to hardware differences are real sights, but not as sharp as had been reported from the slide Apple. You will still have to wait even more advanced games and optimized in order to determine more accurately the true performance of the new tablet.

Below is the video comparing the two platforms.

In the leaked photo image quality Smartphone HTC One X

Previously, we reported that HTC will bring to Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress 2012 smartphone a few: One X, One S, One V and the One XL. Despite the fact that before the press conference at MWC 2012 HTC is at least another day, has already appeared on the web quality image of one of the novelties - HTC One X.

Under the guise of HTC One X, we recall, is hiding a model previously appeared under the name of Endeavor . The apparatus, according to recent data, will be built on a platform of NVIDIA Tegra 3 and the role of managing all functions will be assigned to the operating system, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, complete with proprietary interface HTC Sense UI 4.0. The equipment of the unit will also include a resolution of 8 megapixel camera, modem, LTE and 1 GB of RAM, and a resolution touch screen diagonal of 4.7 inches of 720 x 1280 pixels.

It's obvious that it was HTC One X will lead a new line of smartphones HTC, which means that its price will be high. However, exactly what, find out very soon - in Barcelona, ​​has completed the final preparations.