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FatalInertia on 13 November 2012
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ebw said:
FatalInertia said:
rocketpig said:
FatalInertia said:
rocketpig said:
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You realise durijng normal use the gpu is barely taxed to right? It is still the cpu that processes it all, a gpu is not used nearly as much as the cpu thats a technoligical fact. Multi-tasking is especially a cpu thing.

And because of how iOS is written, multi-tasking isn't as CPU-intensive. It sandboxes apps and minimizes the footprint of each. It's not a system I'm terribly fond of but it works pretty well in mobile devices, minimizing the amount of CPU and RAM you need in a device while also extending battery life.


Doesnt change the fact its moe intensive on CPU then GPU.  CPu is way more important in a tablet then the gpu.

Have you ever coded anything in your life? I'm guessing that answer is "no".

Yes I have but thats irrelevant. I have worked in IT in development as well as now in an operational role. The CPU is used way more doing evryday tasks. Again its why business pc's come with good cpu's but just motherboard GPU's.

You're talking about ancient software written for an ancient time.  The iPhone radically changed people's expectations of how interfaces should look (swooshy animations and gliding transitions).  To implement this stuff well, you need GPU power, not CPU power (Apple pioneered the use of GPU accelerated window management as far back as OS X 10.2).  The reason iOS has always been more responsive than Android on comparable hardware is because of this mastery over the GPU.  The Nexus needed a fast CPU just to come close to the responsiveness of a two-year old iPhone.

 

Im talking about current software and technical facts, the cpu is still the brain of a tablet.


Benchmarks show your wrong, nexus is as fast as most tablets twice expensive, maybe try to bring facts to the discussion. and no CPU is always more important in any device as EVERYTHING has to pass through and be load balanced by the cpu, and multitasking is particularily cpu dependant. The gpu is still more then fast enough in the nexusm but augmented by a faster cpu.