Tegra 3 vs. Tegra 4?

[blackknight3519]

So I'm stuck in this position where I would like to buy an Asus tf700 Tablet with a Tegra 3 processor. Everything I've heard about tegra 3 is good news.  It'll perfor just fine with HD video and any other internet tasks or games I would need it to do.  

 

But I'm also seeing HUGE performance gains in Tegra 4 so what should I do?  Just wait and see what's what?  When exactly are we going to be getting tablets? I've seen companies announcing tablets but I don't believe there are any confirmed release dates. I iz confuzzled :(

[Coombzy]

the tegra 4 transformer is probably round the corner I would wait it out.

[Eddyall]

If you want to game on something you would be better of with a Shield (http://shield.nvidia.com/) or a Tegra 4 tablet but otherwise I'm not sure if you gain anything else over Tegra 3 except maybe battery optimization.

 

Also Tegra 4 should drop the price of Tegra 3.

[blackknight3519]

I won't be gaming on the tablet much. Battery life would be a good factor but I'm really wondering if the processor in the tegra 4 will just be so much better than than the tegra 3 that the current transformer won't be worth buying

[Darell3]

I won't be gaming on the tablet much. Battery life would be a good factor but I'm really wondering if the processor in the tegra 4 will just be so much better than than the tegra 3 that the current transformer won't be worth buying

Tegra 4 will have TWICE the performance than Tegra 3. Graphics wise is SO much different.

[Zappy]

I think the bigger issue with the TF700 is the slow NAND memory it uses that really hurts it's performance.

[qwertywarrior]

please wait for tegra 4 its just funny how much faster it is than tegra 3

the HTC X+ is a tegra 3

also the new snapdragon 800 is almost as fast as the tegra 4

they are right around the corner

[Zappy]

please wait for tegra 4 its just funny how much faster it is than tegra 3

the HTC X+ is a tegra 3

also the new snapdragon 800 is almost as fast as the tegra 4

they are right around the corner

Those benchmarks don't look right, the S3 and Optimus G are too low for starters

[qwertywarrior]

Those benchmarks don't look right, the S3 and Optimus G are too low for starters

ofcourse they are the s3 used a quad core a9 chip

all the new cores out there are A15 or Like-A15

[Geo2160]

What nobody has yet mentioned here is the fact that Tegra 4 has almost double the TDP of Tegra 3 and no more than 3 design wins which are far from release. I doubt we can get our hands on tegra 4 tablets before Q4 2013. @OP: Get a snapdragon 800 tablet when they get out or get the Xperia tablet Z if you want something to buy right now. The TF700 would be a good choice only if you really need the docking station. The tablet Z also has a great advantage above the non-nexus tabs in it's XDA community. It won't get outdated just because the OEM decides it's had enough updates.

[Zappy]

ofcourse they are the s3 used a quad core a9 chip

all the new cores out there are A15 or Like-A15

 

First of all the link for those benchmarks you linked don't even mention the same results as the ones in the picture,  http://blog.gsmarena.com/htc-one-benchmark-scores-are-here-ready-to-blow-your-mind/ they are more realistic 

 

If you actually look at antutu's at http://antutu.com/view.shtml?id=75 and http://antutu.com/view.shtml?id=2079 they correspond to gsmarena's results on the actual page

[blackknight3519]

So now something completely different. If I'm gonna have to wait til like Q3 to get my hands on a tegra 4 tablet anyway, should I just go with a laptop? I need something for school and really, either will work. Just asking around for advice, so everyone's input always helps

[qwertywarrior]

First of all the link in the those benchmarks don't even mention the same results, send of all is you actually look at antutu http://antutu.com/view.shtml?id=75

 and http://antutu.com/view.shtml?id=2079

 

http://blog.gsmarena.com/htc-one-benchmark-scores-are-here-ready-to-blow-your-mind/ Nothing about Tegra 4 and the benchmarks are more realistic 

could u say that again i didnt understand what ur trying to say

[Zappy]

could u say that again i didnt understand what ur trying to say

There, edited. Teaches me to try and type on a phone

[Geo2160]

So now something completely different. If I'm gonna have to wait til like Q3 to get my hands on a tegra 4 tablet anyway, should I just go with a laptop? I need something for school and really, either will work. Just asking around for advice, so everyone's input always helps

 

 

if you need to do ANY type of office editing, get a laptop. No office suite on the play store is even close to the Microsoft one.

[Zappy]

The Pages/Numbers/Keynote package on iOS is actually really good, almost as good as Microsoft Office and better in some ways