NVIDIA says Tegra 3 is a 'PC-class CPU,' has screenshots to prove it

By Sharif Sakr posted Nov 9th 2011 12:32AMAsus can't be absorbing all those limelight photons today. Not when its newly official Transformer Prime depends so heavily on NVIDIA's special sauce. Admittedly, we already know a lot about Tegra 3 from its Kal-El days, but until now we haven't seen much in terms of real-world performance claims. Below you'll see some newly released screenshots of Android games that have been souped-up to capitalize on the imminent Transformer Prime as well as other Tegra 3-powered devices -- including smartphones -- that are expected early next year. NVIDIA have also put out slides containing in-house benchmarks and head-to-head comparisons with the Tegra 2, which you'll find after the break.


NVIDIA claims its latest chip is fives times faster than Tegra 2 overall, four times faster for web browsing, three times faster for graphics thanks to its 12-core GeForce GPU. This GPU can also handle 3D, which the Transformer Prime can then output to a bigger screen via HDMI.

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