Not to be outdone Acer and Lenovo are planning on launching their own
tablets using Tegra 3 in the first quarter of 2012 using Google Ice Cream Sandwich.
The tablet uses a Tegra 3 processor and runs Android 4.1.
Regarding the false - advertising claim, Shannon provided a handful of benchmarks showing the Nvidia Shield
Tablet using the Tegra chip outperforming the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 smartphone using the Exynos chip.
Not exact matches
After struggling to compete against larger chipmakers like Qualcomm in smartphones and
tablets, Nvidia is now increasing its focus on
using its
Tegra mobile chips in cars and is already supplying companies including Audi, BMW and Tesla.
In fact, AnandTech compared the iPad 2's graphics performance with the original iPad and the Motorola Xoom, and
using GLBenchmark 2.0, the iPad 2 was between 3 and 7 times faster than the iPad 1, and was a surprising 2 to 7 times faster than the
Tegra 2 - packing Motorola Xoom
tablet.
This sets the Tab 7.7 apart from most other Honeycomb
tablets which
use Nvidia's
Tegra 2 dual - core CPU which runs at 1 GHz.
He's also heard of a 7 - inch model and plans to
use NVIDIA's new quad - core
Tegra SoC in order to blaze a path into the crowded
tablet market.
Build and design aside, the Transformer Prime is also important because it's the first
tablet to
use NVIDIA's
Tegra 3 quad - core processor.
The Lenovo ThinkPad
tablet that the Steton Hall University has decided to
use is based on a 1 GHz NVidia
Tegra 2 dual core processor and runs Android 3.1 Honeycomb.
The Motorola Xoom 10 inch
tablet is said to be
using the new Nvidia
Tegra 3 processor!
The
tablet will
use Nvidia's visual - computing friendly — and power - efficient —
Tegra 2 platform, with a 32 GB SSD and 2 GB of RAM.
Nvidia has landed up a mega contract to supply no less than 3 million of its latest
Tegra 3 quad core chips to be
used on the Google
tablet.
Tegra Zone is a one - stop shop for all things optimized for
use and play on
Tegra 2 dual - core devices, specifically
Tablets, but works fine on dual - core smartphones too!
This is the seven - inch
tablet from Acer running Android and
using an Nvidia
Tegra 3 1.2 GHz quad - core processor.
Bottom Line: Nvidia's gaming - oriented Shield
Tablet is one of the first mobile devices to
use the
Tegra K1 CPU, and in sheer power it blows other
tablets out of the water.
If you plan to
use your
tablet for snapping, you'll find a 5 - megapixel rear camera on both the Nexus 7 and the
Tegra Note 7, which is pretty standard for a
tablet camera.
The fixed Instagram photos are now displayed in the gallery, better support is given to NVIDIA
Tegra 3 based gadgets, increased hardware support for
using built - in cameras and applying various filters, updating of geotag locations is now more frequent and many bug fixes for
tablet uses.
The Thrive 7
uses that familiar Nvidia
Tegra 2 platform that most Honeycomb
tablets are
using today, which means you'll find a 1 GHz dual - core Cortex A9 CPU and 1 GB of RAM inside.
The greatest novelty is the Xiaomi Mi Pad being the first
tablet to
use the brand new and powerful NVIDIA
Tegra K1 2.2 GHz ARM Cortex - A15 processor with 4 +1 cores and a 192 - core NVIDIA CUDA Kepler graphics processor, with full support for OpenGL 4.4, OpenGL ES 3.1, so that's very exciting stuff.
The Asus Transformer Prime was the first
tablet to
use the new Nvidia
Tegra 3 Quad - Core CPU processor and is poised for great success during the critical holiday season.
However, what we do know is that Nvidia
Tegra chips will be
used in
tablet PCs made by Compal and MSI.
NVIDIA's
Tegra 2 for example is clearly built for smartphones with either a 800 x 480 or 960 x 540 display resolution, however it's
used in
tablets running at 1280 x 800.
The Adam
tablet runs dual - core ARM Cortex A9 CPUs bearing Nvidia
Tegra 2 System - on - a-Chip while Apple iPad
uses company's own A4 SoC silicon.
So this
uses a lot of the secret sauce that's inside
Tegra 3 to allow you to develop a
tablet at a much lower cost, by
using a lot of innovation that we've developed to reduce the power that's
used by the display and
use lower cost components within the
tablet,» revealed NVIDIA VP, Rob Csonger.
One thing that sets this
tablet apart from the others is that instead of a
Tegra 2 HTC chose to
use a 1.5 GHz dual - core Snapdragon processor.
Apart from the Android 2.4 — the first version from Google that has been built specifically for
use in a
tablet device, another high point with the
tablet is that the Optimus Pad will have a nVidia
Tegra 2 heart.
As the first
tablet to
use Nvidia's
Tegra 4 quad - core ARM Cortex A15s mobile processor, the Excite Pro promises faster performance than its counterparts.
According to Slashgear, the second bargain
tablet will ditch the quad - core
Tegra 3 processor on the Nexus 7 to
use a slower, single - core Intel Atom Z2420 processor in order to bring the price down.
The Sony Xperia
Tablet S
uses the 1.3 GHz T30L variant of the
Tegra 3 chipset, the same chip that's also
used in some lower - end devices including the Google Nexus 7.
NVIDIA developed a reference implementation of HD video conferencing on
Tegra 2 - based
tablets using SkypeKit.
It scores very high, at the top of commercially available
tablet, just in front of the ASUS TF700 which
uses the fastest NVIDIA
Tegra 3 to date.
The Windows RT Surface
tablet makes
use of the NVIDIA
Tegra ARM based processor with a screen estate of 10.6 - inch and a ClearType HD capacitive interface.
It
uses a VIA WM8950 processor instead of NVIDIA's
Tegra 3, and matches the current entry - level Nexus
tablet with 16 GB of flash memory storage.
The Nexus 9 specs begins with the 2.3 GHz NVIDIA
Tegra K1 processor, with its famous 192 Kepler DX1 GPU, a popular processor where a very similar version has already been put to
use in Xiaomi Mi Pad and NVIDIA SHIELD
Tablet.
In the Linpack benchmark, which measures how many calculations a processor can do in a set time, the Archos 101 scored 10.26, which bested the Viewsonic ViewPad 7 (7.5), but was well behind the Samsung Galaxy Tab (13), which
uses a 1 - GHz Hummingbird processor, and the ViewSonic G
Tablet (36.6), which has Nvidia's
Tegra 2 CPU.
All
Tegra 2
tablets that we have
used force you to tote a separate power brick and car charger, in addition to a micro-USB cable for data.
The document was filed by Nvidia with the US International Trade Commission (which was pulled soon after) and also suggested that the new
tablet will
use the company's latest mobile processing architecture, the
Tegra K1.
With a dual - core 1 GHz
Tegra 2 processor at the helm, the Acer Iconia A500 is as powerful as the latest crop of
tablets, but few current Android apps make
use of this reserve.
For all you kids keeping score at home, the Optimus Pad is the international version of the LG G - Slate, which features the same
Tegra 2 CPU and gigabyte of RAM we're
used to seeing in premium Android
tablets by now,...
Csonger didn't say much about the part's capabilities other than it «
uses a lot of the secret sauce that's inside
Tegra 3 to allow you to develop a
tablet at a much lower cost».
All Android 3.0 (Honeycomb)
tablets thus far have
used Nvidia's dual - core 1 GHz
Tegra 2.
If rumours are to true, the
tablet will be running a quad - core Nvidia
Tegra 3 processor at 1.3 GHz, feature a 10.1 - inch screen and
use Windows RT..
To mention but a few rivals, the 32 GB Sony
Tablet S,
using a dual - core
Tegra 2 SoC rather than the Pad 300's
Tegra 3, will set you back # 380.
Late June: In an announcement that will probably take place at Google I / O, Google is expected to unveil a $ 200
tablet called Google Play that will run Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
using a
Tegra 3 quad - core processor.
As a lower - cost Windows RT
tablet, the Asus Vivo Tab RT doesn't
use a high - flying Intel Ivy Bridge processor but a quad - core
Tegra 3 variant.
The Asus Transformer Prime has moved the goal - posts with its more powerful quad - core
Tegra 3 internals, but to be fair most rivals, even if they're new entrants like the Motorola Xoom 2 and Sony
Tablet P, still
use Nvidia's «last - gen» platform.
Considering the different chips
used in each tab - TI Omap, Nvidia
Tegra 3, and Exynos - it is likely it will work with most
tablets as well.
On its own, the Eee Pad Transformer has some attractive features: The 10.1 - inch
tablet runs the latest Android Honeycomb operating system from Google and
uses a dual - core
Tegra 2 processor.
It asked the commission to permanently bar from the US dozens of Nvidia products, including its Shield
tablet computers, GeForce graphics processors,
Tegra mobile chips, Quadro graphics cards, Tesla accelerator cards, and Grid computing boards, as well as several partners»
tablet computers and gaming consoles
using Nvidia chips.
ICD Vega This
Tegra 2
Tablet was
used to demo Verizon's latest 4G technology.