Announced a tablet with a 4-core processor QUALCOMM
First Qualcomm Snapdragon platform with a 4-core processor implemented in a real product. This reference tablet released for developers who want to be fully prepared for the exit of similar solutions from various companies on the market. However, anyone can purchase this tablet PC is priced at $ 1,300.
Of course, such a high cost is due to the production of small runs, but wishing to join the future technology may make it now.
The set comes with a tablet dock, which has a range of ports, including specialized developers.
In many popular smartphones, including the Samsung Galaxy S III and HTC One S, use 2-core version of the S4 with Adreno 225 graphics. The heart of the device acts as described by one of the most anticipated ARM-platforms - Snapdragon S4 Pro (APQ8064), which includes a 4-core Krait v2 with a frequency of 1.5 GHz and a graphics accelerator Adreno 320 of the new generation, which has support for OpenGL ES 3.0, OpenCL 1.2 for general purpose calculations, RenderScript and Direct3D 11 with a set of functional level 9_3.
2-core S4 platform will be the basis of the tablet ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity, endowed module cellular 4G, this suggests that the new 4-core chip will in future versions with support for LTE.
Currently on the market there are only two 4-core competitor Snapdragon S4 Pro (APQ8064) - this is quite an old system on a chip NVIDIA Tegra 3, which is the basis of many modern devices, and Samsung Exynos 4 Quad, used in the European version of the Galaxy S smartphone III.
Qualcomm tablet is endowed with a screen diagonal of 10.1-inch standard-definition 1366h720 has 2 GB of RAM LPDDR2, 32GB eMMC permanent memory and is equipped with a 13-megapixel rear camera, does not have high photographic quality (judging by the pictures taken indoors), a set of 7 microphones for capturing high-quality audio and surround sound acoustics. Android is not installed the latest version - 4.0.4. Similar products from big-name companies will be at the turn of the current and next year.
Surely will be presented Oct. 26 at least one tablet with Windows 8 RT based on this processor.
The figures in the comparative results of test packets can be seen that the platform APQ8064 leaves far behind its rivals in the face of NVIDIA Tegra 3, Samsung Exynos 4412, and as a Qualcomm MSM8960 processor performance and graphics. Ahead of the powerful Adreno 320 graphics accelerator Mali-400 by more than 1.3 times.
For pure performance there is no doubt that the Snapdragon S4 Pro took place undisputed leader, but there is another important question about power consumption 4-core chip. For personal impressions of journalists resource Engadget, Snapdragon Krait architecture through asynchronous frequency cores and 28-nm process bypasses the energy efficiency old 40nm chip Tegra 3 architecture with 4-PLUS-1. But more fundamentally about it will be judged later, after carrying out measurements.
