I really do believe that apple should have given the cpu a nice upgrade as well. My galaxy nexus in cpu tasks is much faster than my ipad 2 and the ipad 3's cpu is essentially the same. Pages load much faster on my nexus....
In comparison apples tablet scores around 10000 even and the 4s is around 85000. Upgrading the cpu is very important imo and the omap 4460 has a much better power draw than the a5x which is extremely power hungry. I like this particular benchmark as it actually corresponds to something that you can see in real life.
The nexus is more than twice as fast as the 4s in this benchmark.
There were NEVER complaints about the 'speed' (CPU) of the iPad2. Memory issues? Yep...screen resolution? Yeah....GPU power to facilitate that new, high rez possibility? U Bet!--but when it came to speed; IE--the ability to play Any and ALL offerings available on the AppStore at a playable frame rate without crashing...AND offer an enjoyable experience while surfing the 'net, checking mail, flipping pages in your ebooks, et al....absolutely NO concern with the 'speed' of the CPU in the iPad 2.
Where Apple DID make improvements, they made EXTREME improvements. Considering the iPad is basically just an interactive 'screen'---the old school thought of boosting CPU power just doesn't apply! It's all about GPU power now! It's where they needed to make improvements and it's where they DID make improvements. Do you think adding a quad core processor (CPU) would've benefitted battery at all? Not with today's (or rather, 6 month ago) technology. However---a quad core GPU is necessary---the iPad (*3*) is one helluvan upgrade brother...not sure how even the most Holy of Android evangelists could deny this (I own a lot of Apple products...including the 4s, as well as a couple of Android devices--including the Galaxy Note).
Now I'm not sure what you mean by this being a 'benchmark you can actually really see in real life...' Because it's quite the opposite. The ONLY thing you see in real life with that B/M is an arbitrary number given to a mobile device that measures browsing and java performance. Not CPU, nor GPU. Please check Andandtech for more information and significantly more meaningful benchmarking tools that you MAY be able to equate to 'real life' performance. I think that's kinda the definition of benchmarking isn't it? It's not real life, it's a technically derived answer to the performance of a particular piece of electronics according to a bit of software. Has nothing to do with how Roxio or EA or Blizzard or Joe Blow's Apps and Gadgets coded THEIR software!
The cool thing with iPad development--there's only ONE iPad! Obviously, there are earlier iterations--but there isn't a 300 dollar version and a 3,000 'enthusiasts' version. Just one. Hence, developers are developing for THAT piece of kit...and IT alone! Obviously, if they want to make the most loot from the AppStore--they'll also code it to be able to run on the most iOS devices possible, referring to age and/or phone/tablet. It's not the equivalent to the PC or even the Mac world...where there are several different 'ranges' of CPU/GPU/RAM etc. Just. One!
Obviously, this isn't the case on the Android side of the coin. And I think Google is aiming to change that with their rollout (albeit slow...I'm still waiting with a brand new GNote
) of ICS. It's the software...not the hardware in most if not all of these cases of lag/shutdown/reboot/etc complaints that we hear so often. Same in the iOS world. Owners of iPhone 3's can attest to the performance hit they received making the jump to iOS 5.0. But technology moves forward. And in the case of the mobile sector--possibly a bit quicker than the home PC and/or desktop world of computing.
All this mumbo jumbo said...I do look forward to the "A6" or whatever processor Apple uses in next year's iPad--or this fall's iPhone. I'm a geek too. I've been reading for three days about TriGate transistors, the new Intel HD 4000 GPU...and benchmarks on Anand's site that I will NEVER understand! But again...I believe these mobile devices are essentially ALL screen. Hence, the loyalty to the GPU more-so than yesterday's heavy reliance on the CPU to increase performance
We're actually seeing the same in the desktop/laptop realm. Look at the options now with Video and Photo editing, 3d and CAD work...all moving to offload those CPU tasks to the GPU when possible. GPUs are fast mother's these days, with incredibly fast RAM. For them just to be there for the sake of "Gaming" makes no sense. Go to Boeing's site...click the "Design my own Dreamliner" link (sorry, I don't have it but I was there yesterday
)---and even clicking through the gallery (much less designing your own plane), you'll notice your GPU kicking in! I think it's cool seeing these two bad boys working together rather than separate. Intel and AMD obviously think so as well!
The galaxy nexus is signficantly faster and browsermark is not simply javascript test. Its a rendering test and graphics test as well. Its also very cpu dependent. GPU's are good at number crunching but they are almost useless for anything requiring instructions. Also the only reason the ipad 3's gpu is fast is because its three times the size of any other mobile gpu and has three times the power draw. My atom netbook uses less power than it. It can get 8-9 hours on a 5000mah battery. The ipads is like 12000mah. If they stuck the big battery in the transformer prime or a tablet with the nexus's chipset it would get like 20-25 hours of battery.
Not sure why you feel the need to defend the 'other' system so voraciously. The Galaxy Nexus is definitely NOT significantly faster....and in many cases is actually quite the opposite. But, with a little reading on line, and 'REAL WORLD' usage of said device will open your eyes. Don't rely on a free browser mark test to misconstrue information...OR to limit what YOU will find if you actually step over and try an iOS device~
Why are you here? With a quick gander at some of your previous posts, you're obviously not a fan, not a user...isn't there another hobby you may find appealing rather than rousing Apple/Mac/iOS folk?
Just curious
J
