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Since a few days, Nvidia’s Shield is available for consumer pre-orders. Nvidia’s new gaming console is based on the Android operating system and has specially optimized games. The system is powered by an Nvidia Tegra 4 CPU. The ARM A15 processor has four cores, while the video chip has 72 cores. The 5-inch touchscreen has [...]

The Surface RT has been out for a while, Microsoft’s definition of what an affordable tablet should be. Today we are taking a closer look at the Surface Pro, a device that’s in an entirely different class in terms of hardware and pricing. The Microsoft Surface Pro with Type Cover. While the Surface RT and the [...]

Nvidia has shed some light on what the Tegra 4 successor will look like. This next-gen processor is currently codenamed ‘Logan’ but is likely to retail as Tegra 5. Naturally, performance has improved significantly over the last iteration, partly because the architecture of the integrated GPU is looking more and more like that of familiar [...]

Ouya’s CEO, Julie Uhrman, has indicated that the compact Android-console won’t immediately support online multiplayer at launch. The developers do expect to implement the feature before the end of this year. Local multiplayer will work from day one. The Ouya console is the brainchild of a Kickstarter campaign, which successfully ended in August of 012. [...]

Chinese manufacturer ZTE has announced a partnership with Nvidia to develop the first smartphones featuring Nvidia’s Tegra 4 platform. The Tegra 4 processor has four Cortex-A15 cores and a fifth efficient core. It packs 72 GPU-cores with hardware encoders and decoders. The Tegra 4 is intended for ‘super phones’ and tablet, but requires quite a [...]

ASUS has introduced a new 10.1-inch tablet featuring the Android 4.1 operating system. The MeMO Pad Smart is a multimedia tablet intended for users that travel frequently. It uses Nvidia’s Tegra 3 processor and has a 10.1-inch multitouch screen with a 1280×800 pixel resolution. The screen is claimed to have a high brightness and maximum [...]

Microsoft released an ARM version of Windows 8 called Windows RT, and that’s the version that runs on the ASUS VivoTab RT. Also known as the ASUS TF600T, we will take a closer look at that tablet today. We recently compared the Intel Atom Z2760 x86 processor to the Nvidia Tegra 3 ARM processor in [...]

Windows 8 is the first consumer version of Windows that not only runs on processors with the X86 architecture (from Intel and AMD), but also with processors with the ARM architecture. That makes it possible to compare the performance of these two architectures, which is exactly what we did. We used two ASUS tablets to [...]

Nvidia came with quite a few announcements at the start of the annual CES fair, which takes place this week in Las Vegas. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, spent 1.5 hours talking about the short-term and long-term plans of the graphic chip manufacturer. Nvidia Tegra 4 was discussed, along with GeForce Experience, Nvidia Grid Servers, [...]

Several sources report that Intel claims its latest Atom system-om-a-chip for tablets performs better than the popular Nvidia Tegra 3 in the field of power consumption. Thanks to the PowerVR SGX 545 GPU, manufactured by Imagination Technologies, Intel‘s chip should be slightly more efficient. The chip manufacturer claims that the 1.8 GHz dual-core Atom Z2760 [...]