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Originally Posted by fjtorres
See? That can stick. 
I'm sure the Apple fans will point out the 4 core GPU will make for killer games to fight it out with the PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS but since I do my gaming on Xbox I have no interest on any of the above. 
The New iPad is clearly more interested in gamers than people who appreciate Quad core CPUs.  |
iOS has it's UI drawn with OpenGL so everything you see is powered by the GPU. Android does the same thing but to a lesser extent. I'm not saying one way is better than the other but it means that increasing the GPU power will increase the performance of the device and not just in games. Other parts of OS and software are also, and can in future, be GPU accelerated.
Have you seen the benchmarks of the Tegra 3? It is outperformed by Qualcomm's dual- core Snapdragon and not significantly faster than the previous Apple A5. Where graphics performance is concerned, it is still slower than the A5. So 4 cores isn't everything, having good software optimisation and having each individual core perform well count for more.
The actual devices aside, I don't believe Tegra 3 is going anywhere significant. Tegra 2 was the first dual-core SoC to market and was quickly overtaken by everything else. There were almost no Tegra 2 devices towards the end of the last generation's product cycles. NVidia is probably doing the same thing again, be the first to out with 4 cores (or 4+1) and ride the early adoption wave but without LTE support they will run out of steam soon. As it is, the latest Snapdragon is already stealing many design wins.