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superchunk on 10 March 2012
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Shinobi-san said:
To add to that Superchunk the next gen for tegra and snapdragon, as in after Q1 2013 is anyones guess, since that information hasnt been revealed yet. Unless you want to trust nvidias proclaimed advancements for their next tegra device...but only a stupid person would do that.

Its not like a manufactures is going to come out with something amazing for the remainder of this year, the tec is already known, its already planned for release and it is not better than PSV :)

Even a new galaxy S3/iphone 5 is limited to what the manufactures have available for the 2012/2013 timeframe.


Follow the links. In every case there are chips coming out now that are equal to Vita and chips slated for 2012 (probably late) that are superior. Look at their tables and the last few items listed and their specs. All based on ARM CPU/GPU configurations have items clearly better for THIS year. I don't really compare Tegra since they build their own GPUs to go with the ARM CPUs and without a wide range of benchmarking, its not as easy to speak to. However, these two alone will be in high-end products as well as a simple understanding of Apple and what they always do its obvious their next chip will be identical to Vita's in the iphone5 later this summer.

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Samsung's chips http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exynos

Exynos 4412 32 nm HKMG ARMv7 1.5-1.8 GHz Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9     2012
Exynos 5450 32 nm HKMG ARMv7 2.0 GHz Quad-coreARM Cortex-A15 MPCore     2012

Here's the GPUs likely to be combined with these CPUs

Mali-T604 4 256 KiB OpenGL ES 1.1 & 2.0, OpenVG 1.1, OpenCL 1.1, DirectX 11, Renderscript [4]
Mali-T658 8 256 KiB OpenGL ES 1.1 & 2.0, OpenVG 1.1, OpenCL 1.1, DirectX 11, Renderscript

[5]

Then combine this with Samsung now adding 1GB RAM and likely having 1.5 or 2GB by next year with this group.

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Snapdragon S4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_(System_on_Chip)

APQ8064[29][30][31] 28 nm ARMv7 2.5 GHz Quad-core Krait   Adreno 320   Connectivity features not included 2012

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Qualcomm-announces-Snapdragon-S4-Pro-chip-with-Adreno-320-graphics_id27381

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My point still stands. By end of summer there will be many devices equal to Vita in terms of raw power. As 2013 starts there will be many devices soundly beating Vita and as the year rolls on it will only begin to be more of a separation.