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iPad 2: GPU Benchmarked with Impressive Gains
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You're a little off..... XOOM screen is 1280 x 800 pixels. Sure, it's got more pixels, but not a huge amount more.
What he wrote was really clear to me - an iPad 1 that you bought a few weeks ago is still as fast and as capable as it was months ago, when there weren't any iPad 2 rumors. Nothing in his post suggests that he owned one a few months ago.
Well, he apparently has a Mac Pro, so that's definitely not it; or he might not have any money left to spend after his other purchases.
Irrelevant. You can't change the resolution of either device. So the extra pixels on the xoom actually slow it down. Bad luck. Sorry, but it's a level playing field if we're talking about real world performance. And we should be, because anything else is just measurbating.
Now, a different test may show, for example, the same game running on both, and the xoom may show more details because of its higher resolution. In such a test with that result, the xoom would win.
Apple fanboys have said that specs don't matter. Now they do? It seems to me they only say this when they know it should be more.
But, but, after reading thousands of comments from Engadget, I thought the Xoom is so much more superior even compared to the iPad 2?
Did I become dumber after reading all those comments on Engadget?
Seriously now - does anyone else think that the comments on Engadget are even worse in terms of quality compared to the comments that you read in YouTube?
Did I become dumber after reading all those comments on Engadget?
Seriously now - does anyone else think that the comments on Engadget are even worse in terms of quality compared to the comments that you read in YouTube?
You're confusing specs with performance measurements. The former are just numbers, the latter directly affects the user experience (tm), the optimisation of which is Apple's primary focus.
This article shows performance test results. You are right that the article does talk about some specs such as numbers of pipelines and chip numbers etc, but that is not the main point of the article, nor has a single post in this thread to date mentioned those specs. The main point are the test results, which directly improve user experience (tm).
Fandroids tell us that specs matter. Now they don't? It seems to me they only say this when they think they can beat Apple on clock cycles.
Well, since in other aspects where Apple has had inferior specs (say a 6750m compared to a 6850), but in that respect it doesn't really affect the functionality of the product so severely. The Xoom is hampered in this respect since this is an evolving market where GPU power is increasing @ a geometric rate, and has a chip orders of magnitude slower than the iPad 2 which will affect functionality. Apple PC = mature technology and market, Tablet/iPad = new/immature technology where an increase in power comes in leaps and bounds and affects functionality in a major way.
It's not specs, it's speed...... that's what translates into a better user experience.
XOOM fans like to tout the higher resolution of it's screen, but it only looks good straight on. It's off-axis viewing is poor compared to the iPad. More pixels doesn't necessarily mean a better quality screen overall.
Apple cares about the overall user experience of their products. They aren't concerned with just compiling a laundry list of specs like many other manufacturers do.
This actually did make me lol. Serious or sarcastic, that is the question!
Specs only matter when your device of choice is better than the competition.
so we now know that the A5 just destroyed the tegra 2 in the xoom but how about that snapdargon powering the touchpad. it seems as though the graphics is really nice according to engadget and others. i hope it leaves that in the dust as well
The thing is all fanboys, no matter what the product is they support, are irrational and will use whatever argument they can to criticise/praise a competing/favored product. They should be ignored, like creationists and other religious gits.
The fact of the matter is, in this sense specs matter a hell of a lot for this market, especially when it affects functionality. Apple has in their mainstream computing products been able to compromise in raw on paper GPU power due to it being a mature product, and the increase in power being marginal and unnecessary to produce a useful product that does a certain task just as well if not better (software efficiency) than a windows competitor.
The most recent instance of where GPU power really was atrociously lacking was the previous gen MacBook Pro with a GT330m; a truly terrible graphics card by anyone's standard compared to contemporary technology. Outdated, slow, power consuming and hot.