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Mekrel said:
It's rubbish, proof is in the pudding. It lacks horsepower and it shows on majority of games not designed for Tegra, hence why Gameloft disables visual effects in their games when run on Tegra3 devices.

It also causes fragmentation in several ways, with games coming out specifically for it and in some instances, THD games being left behind when their standard counterparts get updated. Fruit Ninja is a perfect example, the standard version is more up to date than the THD one...

A chip designed for gaming by a company who's primary business is GPUs... I expected more. I know it's a cheap SoC but it found its way into premium products such as the HTC One X and Asus Transformer range
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Just not true tbh. It's a very capable chip and quite happily competes with the best on the market right now. Devices like the Nexus 7 prove that as it can easily keep up with phones like the SGS3 etc. Ok so it's not quite there in terms of raw performance and on-paper statistics, but then it's a hell of a lot cheaper...

Most THD games look better than their non-THD counterparts though from what I've seen...
 
dbmzk1 said:
Just not true tbh. It's a very capable chip and quite happily competes with the best on the market right now. Devices like the Nexus 7 prove that as it can easily keep up with phones like the SGS3 etc. Ok so it's not quite there in terms of raw performance and on-paper statistics, but then it's a hell of a lot cheaper...

Most THD games look better than their non-THD counterparts though from what I've seen...
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On paper and in benchmarks it doesn't do too bad but in real life performance, it's shocking. N.O.V.A 3 and The Dark Knight are completely unplayable on my TF201 whilst the Mali-400 in the Exynos 4412 eats those games for breakfast. That's the same Mali GPU found in the SII, just clocked faster.

Again, Gameloft "update" their games with Tegra performance optimisations which turn out to be them just disabling effects. The single channel memory kills bandwidth, it's power hungry and utilises a very inefficient core hot plugging system.
 
Mekrel said:
On paper and in benchmarks it doesn't do too bad but in real life performance, it's shocking. N.O.V.A 3 and The Dark Knight are completely unplayable on my TF201 whilst the Mali-400 in the Exynos 4412 eats those games for breakfast. That's the same Mali GPU found in the SII, just clocked faster.

Again, Gameloft "update" their games with Tegra performance optimisations which turn out to be them just disabling effects. The single channel memory kills bandwidth, it's power hungry and utilises a very inefficient core hot plugging system.
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Both Nova 3 and The Dark Knight run perfect on my Nexus 7 and most THD games I've tried look better than the non-THD versions...
 
PiKe said:
Why are they wasting screen real-estate by having the battery and time at the top and the soft buttons at the bottom? Put them on the same line!
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Pre-release software perhaps? It'd make no sense having the navigation buttons in the centre of the screen, presumably they'll fix that.
 
dbmzk1 said:
Both Nova 3 and The Dark Knight run perfect on my Nexus 7 and most THD games I've tried look better than the non-THD versions...
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You're not really reading my posts are you? I didn't say THD versions do not look better, I said they're sometimes left behind update wise vs their non THD counterparts.

I.e on Fruit Ninja non THD, they added a pomegranate to the end of the round on arcade mode during an update. The THD version has not had this update.
 
reflux said:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...just-like-a-giant-phones-and-thats-fantastic/ - interesting thoughts on it

Personally I prefer the old tablet UI with the nav buttons in the bottom left because it makes it much easier to use one-handed.
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The nav bar on the 10" tablet doesn't work at all in the 4.2 UI imo, I can see why they wanted to do it, to make a consistent experience between all android devices however it now wastes so much screen space...

On phones it is fine because the 3 buttons waste no space. :/

I imagine there will be a way to mod it pretty easily to show the old tablet style though, which I think makes more sense with the controls by your thumbs.
 
That's ridiculous, I have a Tab 8.9 and having the buttons in the corners makes so much sense. Can't imagine having to reach into the middle of the screen to use them.
 
Mekrel said:
On paper and in benchmarks it doesn't do too bad but in real life performance, it's shocking. N.O.V.A 3 and The Dark Knight are completely unplayable on my TF201 whilst the Mali-400 in the Exynos 4412 eats those games for breakfast. That's the same Mali GPU found in the SII, just clocked faster.

Again, Gameloft "update" their games with Tegra performance optimisations which turn out to be them just disabling effects. The single channel memory kills bandwidth, it's power hungry and utilises a very inefficient core hot plugging system.
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The CPU is not so bad, but its a lot more to do with heat, how long it takes to get things done and the amount of power this thing needs. Just take a look at this review of the iPhone5 were it compares some SoC for power usage.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6330/the-iphone-5-review/12
 
It'll be nice to see something more from Microsoft but what I'd also like to see is some actual launch dates and availability for WP8 devices. I think most people have already forgotten about WP8.
 
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