The New iPad vs. ASUS' Transformer Pad Infinity in Specs

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• menting - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - link

  "Tegra 3 is roughly equivalent to last year's A5 CPU", ONLY in the video aspect.
  in CPU numbers the Tegra 3 blows A5 away.

• michael2k - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - link

  http://www.anandtech.com/show/5163/asus-eee-pad-tr...
  
  The Tegra3 is only about 2x as powerful as the Tegra2, in CPU only. In the browser based benchmarks, we see the iPad 2 is equivalent to the Tegra3.
  
  There may be other benchmarks where this is not so, but for games or browser based activities the iPad2 is competitive or outclasses the Tegra3, let alone the iPad3.

• harbourcoat - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - link

  are those browser benchmarks based on the same browser on each platform?
  
  if not then benchmark is void.

• michael2k - Thursday, March 8, 2012 - link

  No, it's not void. It shows that, at the time of benchmark, that out of the box someone with an iPad will see no disadvantage in using browser based apps, or the browser, or email.
  
  That is not inconsequential. It also shows that in GPU heavy tasks the iPad shows an advantage over the Tegra 3.
  
  That is extended to the new iPad by dint of a similar CPU and more GPU cores.

• tipoo - Sunday, March 11, 2012 - link

  It isn't 4 GPUs per core, its 4 GPU cores period.

• MrSparkle404 - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - link

  Should I assume all 3 can do Wireless N? N has been around a while, but many phones don't support it, and these are almost phones...

• ericloewe - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - link

  They're definitely all Wireless N. Wireless N is pretty much universal now - the only recent gadget I know is limited to G is the Nintendo 3DS, and they stayed on B for what seemed like forever.

• name99 - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - link

  iPad1 does wireless n. At 2.4 and 5GHz. Where have you been the past few years?
  
  The real question is does it support either 40MHz bands or MIMO. No tablet that I know of does so today, so they are all limited to either 65 or 72Mbps PHY.
  
  I was disappointed (and surprised) that as least as far as the talk goes, they support DC-HSPA but not MIMO HSPA. This is disappointing insofar as DC-HSPA gives 42Mbps PHY, sure, but at the cost of wider bandwidth --- 2x MIMO HSPA is more spectrally efficient, and we need all the spectral efficiency we can get going forward. The very fact that ATT are STILL willing to allow new non-MIMO devices on their network (and it's not like a tablet is really constrained wrt to space for two antennas) is just one more reason I take all their crying about how they need more spectrum as just so much bullshit. If you're so spectrum constrained, guys, then how about you insist on your device making better fscking use of it?

• gorash - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - link

  So ASUS has made the Infinity thinner than iPad 2, but Apple made iPad 3 thicker... hmm...

• c4v3man - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - link

  Battery capacity appears to have nearly doubled on the iPadHD/3/whatever. So while the Transformer infinity may be thinner, the iPadHD will likely get better battery life, at 9+hrs vs probably 7hrs or less on the Infinity. Unless the Tegra unCore saves enough power to make up for it, which is unlikely.
  
  Still waiting on the ASUS Memo370T... that's the tablet for me! Since getting my free Playbook, I've been carrying it around everywhere with me... can't imagine having anything bigger.