Ipad 3 is equiavlent to....

[Destination]

As title, if one was to compare an ipad3, with its superior gfx to the ipad2, to a pc of yesteryear, what sort of processing and gfx capabilities are we equivalent to?
I know its a different OS, but i see a collection of rpg style games emerging for the ipad, and wondered just where in the history of pcs the tech is equivalent to.

 

[Pottsey]

It is very hard to compare directly as the Ipad is a deferred renderer tile based chip. The last decent PC tile based card was the Kyro II SE. But the ipad is way past a Kyro II SE. I think the Ipad 3 specs are around 32.0 GFLOPS, 200 MTriangles and 4000 MPixel/s

EDIT: (1000 Mpixel for 1 core at 200mhz. I assumed 4 cores means 4000 MPixel/s and the new Ipad got bumped up to 250mz I bealive) Same for 200 MTriangles. 1 core at 200mhz is 40MTriangles so 4 cores at 250mhz = 200MTriangles?)

 

[Destination]

32 gflops, i think thats a bit less than a low power i3, but thats still quite a bit for a handheld tablet device.
Interesting, I guess it depends on the OS and the ram and stuff but it should be capable of quite a lot.

 

[Pottsey]

32 gflops, i think thats a bit less than a low power i3, but thats still quite a bit for a handheld tablet device.
Interesting, I guess it depends on the OS and the ram and stuff but it should be capable of quite a lot.

I was not very clear in my post, sorry about that. 32 gflops is for the GPU, I have no idea what the CPU is.

 

[Destination]

ohh ok, sorry

 

[sarge78]

For gaming:
It's roughly the same as a 6th gen console (XBOX/PS2) or DX8 PC from around ~2002.

For general compute:
The CPU is similar to a 1.6GHz Intel Atom (Netbook)

 

[pumaz]

For gaming:
It's roughly the same as a 6th gen console (XBOX/PS2) or DX8 PC from around ~2002.

For general compute:
The CPU is similar to a 1.6GHz Intel Atom (Netbook)

I have a Netbook with a 1.6GHz ATOM Chip also own XBOX, PS2 and the New iPad feels and looks far more powerful than these. Games Like N.O.V.A. 3 and Modern Combat 3 looks as good as anything on PS3 and 360. Just a shame Apple don't allow BT Joypads.

 

[Pottsey]

For gaming:
It's roughly the same as a 6th gen console (XBOX/PS2) or DX8 PC from around ~2002.

I think the Ipad 3 is much closer to Xbox360 then Xbox1. Still behind Xbox360 mind you but that will change next gen when it will leap ahead of Xbox360 from a GPU point of view. The Ipad 2/3 is more DX10/11 level not DX8 from a features point of view.

 

[Jimz]

There's only a handful of games that use the Ipad 3's gfx to the full extent. Dead Trigger is a perfect example.