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superchunk on 29 October 2012
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famousringo said:
superchunk said:
honestly... beyond specific OS fanboyism... I don't see why anyone would choose any other 10" (or 7" for Nexus7) over the Nexus 10. Its by far the better choice and FAR less $$.


Same reasons as always: Software, ecosystem. And apparently it's the best option for people who want cellular networking. But I agree that the Nexus 10 has impressive hardware specs at a good price.

One quibble with your table, the CPU in the A6X SoC is not a cortex A9. It's a custom CPU design based on the ARMv7 instruction set codenamed "Swift". Also, we don't know what clock it runs at, but 1.3-1.6 GHz seems likely.

I'm looking forward to a Swift vs A15 showdown, actually. From what I gather, A15 is expected to outperform Swift per clock, while Swift is expected to perform much better in terms of performance per watt. A15 was actually designed to bring good performance per watt to the server space, so it's optimization is a little off-target here.

Edit: Oh yeah, and you mean iPad 4th gen.


Apple bases their CPU tech on ARM and Cortex A9 is what its based on as was the last few Apple CPUs. "Swift" is just their code name.

I did update the GHz as I read more on it from ArsTechnica. ( http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/10/deducing-details-about-apples-a6x-processor/ )

A15 from all accounts I've read is a beast and truly outdoes anything else based on A9 (even dual vs quad core comparisons). However, a proper comparison would be best and I'm sure it will come with benchmarks between these specific devices soon.

EDIT: now even if CPU tweaks make it similar to N10, its GPU and a lot of the other hardware still pales in comparison. Overall, its still better hardware, similar OS at $100 less money all the while using standard connections.