New iPad 3 A5x vs Tegra 3 (video)

Apple’s new iPad 3 tablet launched on Friday equipped with Apple’s new A5x processor which is fitted with quad-core graphics inside. Which during Apple’s new iPad unveiling was shown to provide four times the performance of the Tegra 3 chip. But Apple didn’t show any benchmark details to substantiate this claim.

However now the new iPad 3 is available to purchase, Laptop Magazine has taken a closer look at these claims comparing the A5x vs Tegra 3. In the video below you can see both the Tegra 3 vs A5x and although the tegra 3 chip allows for graphic elements not available on the iPad 3. The reviewers say that they prefer the colour depth of Apple’s new iPad 3. But these could be contributed by the new HD screen rather than the quad-core graphics.

However the Tegra 3 GPU beat the iPads GPU hands down according to the GLBenchmark 2.1 benchmark results carried out by Laptop Magazine.

“the quad-core Tegra 3 blew its competitor way as it achieved an overall score of 1,571 to the A5X’s 692. On the integer (1391 to 614), floating point (2408 to 825) and memory subtests (1076 to 784), the Tegra 3 dominated, but the A5X bested it by a small margin of 324 to 266 on the stream subtest.”

You can read the full A5x vs Tegra 3 comparison over on the Laptop Mag website complete will all results and graphs showing the winner of A5x vs Tegra 3.

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Sony’s Next Android Tablet To Come With Tegra 3 Quad Core Processor?

Sony’s existing Android tablets use an NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, but it would appear that Sony may have a new tablet in the works which will use NVIDIA’s new quad core processor.

Some benchmarks have been discovered showing an unannounced device from Sony which features a quad core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor.

The device has the model number V150 and it seems to be running a quad core 1.4GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, and the device is also running Android 4.0.3.

There are no details as yet on what this device might be, but it could possibly be Sony’s next Android tablet as it features a 1280 x 752 pixel resolution.

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Call of Duty Elite iPad And Android Tablet App Under Development

Activision Product Director Noah Heller has revealed that a new tablet optimised application is currently being developed for Call of Duty Elite members. That will be available on both iOS and Android tablet devices.

The new tablet application was started shortly after Activsion realised just how popular their mobile application had become. In an interview with T3, Heller explained:

“We’re working on the tablet app right now, I can’t tell you much about it but what I can tell you is that it will be a truly native, customised application for the tablet, it’s not just a simple port.”

Heller also hinted at new features that may or may not be available on launch, which could provide players with a Heat Map which could be viewed during game play. Commenting “It has been brought up before, I can’t say anything about it but it has been brought up before”.

Unfortunately no information on pricing or worldwide availability has been released as yet, but as soon as information comes to light we will keep you updated as always.

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Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 Source Code Released

Samsung started rolling out the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for their Galaxy S II smartphone at the end of last week, to some countries, with other countries expected to get the update this week.

Samsung has now released the source code for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for the Galaxy S II and it is available to download fro, Samsung’s open source portal.

We haven’t as yet found out a date for the release of the Android 4.0 update for the Galaxy S II here in the UK, we were hoping to find out some more details today, but there doesn’t seem to be any more information as yet.

As soon as we get some more information on when the update will be available in the UK with the various carriers we will let you guys know.

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WINDOWS 8 REGISTRATION GIVEAWAY

a GeekyValley giveaway

 

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HTC One X Headed To Sprint June 10th?

We have previously heard a rumor that the new HTC One X would be headed to US mobile carrier Sprint, and now according to the guys over at S4GRU, the device could land on Sprint on the 10th of June.

The HTC One X is rumored to be called the HTC Jet on Sprint and it looks like it may feature different specifications that the original HTC One X.

The HTC Jet is rumored to feature a dual core 1.5GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, a 4.7 inch Super LCD HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels.

It looks like the HTC Jet will use the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8690 processor instead of the NVIDIA Tegra 3 on the HTC One X.

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