Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet to feature powerful ARM Mali T-604 graphics, adding to a quad-core processor

6. hung2900 (Posts: 965; Member since: 02 Mar 2012)

There are thousands of roms and lauchers for GTab 10.1 man!

9. thelegend6657 (unregistered)

Dude tab 10.1 isn't a good device people but it because it's a Samsung . The asus is better and feels more snappy because it's less heavily skinned . For now a Samsung tab I wil buy is tab 7.7

12. ph00ny (Posts: 1555; Member since: 26 May 2011)

10.1 is awful because Tegra2 was a terrible choice for a tablet

5. PimpStrong (Posts: 310; Member since: 25 Jul 2011)

Eeeasy now. That is a tablet. Let's not get the "S3 is outdated" comments going until it is at least released!

10. thelegend6657 (unregistered)

This isn't that super fast A15 dual core chip that you say is faster than the quad core A9 chip ? This smokes the Tegra 3 ! This is just a same exynos from galaxy s3 with a new GPU right ?
Btw Tegra 2 and snapdragon 3 which is faster ?

13. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)

no, the SGS3 uses the 4412 chip, which is an A9 quadcore die shrunk to 32nm. It has some advanced manufacturing processes and its mali400 GPU is set at a higher clock speed as well which is what helps make it a beast.

The chip in this tablet is the A15 5250 dual exynos, which on the CPU side gets about the same power as the A9 4412 quad exynos, but the GPU that they use is 5x more powerful at standard clocks than the mali400 in the SGS2/SGS3.

This is the chip that everyone WANTED in the SGS3, but knew it wouldnt happen because samsung said this was a Tablet chip first and foremost.

A T2 and S3 are both old chips, why worry about them? Between the 2, I'd take the Tegra2. Its stronger over all by just a smidge. Neither are as good as the OMAP4 or Exynos 4210 that sits in the SGS2/Note.

Between a T3 and an S4, its a bit of a toss up. The T3 slams the S4 in some tests and fails in others comparatively like with the OneX's (T3 version) camera issues. For actual crunching power, the T3 has a multithreading advantage with its quad set up. So thats really up to you which one you want.

18. thelegend6657 (unregistered)

nothing just that we are comparing chips i just ask .
Samsung tabs for carriers mostly have s3 while normal ones have tegra which i find very laggy on the tab10.1 .
But for me i will go with a tegra 3

19. thelegend6657 (unregistered)

although the tab10.1 is the best selling Honeycomb tablet . thats what makes me think android sucks .
I find that the Transformer is more snappy but people buy the 10.1 because its a samsung

24. AFnerdTP (unregistered)

on spec sheet & price, TF300 might look great, but if you start reading the reviews, you'll soon find that they have some trouble with quality control.
hence the lower price i guess.. NOT saying samsung is a whole lot better, but personally, i like to do research and find the most suitable gadget.
so far, i've not had any issues with any of my samsung products

22. hung2900 (Posts: 965; Member since: 02 Mar 2012)

Read the article again! It's quad Cortex-A9 with a newer GPU.

28. thelegend6657 (unregistered)

HUNG , thumbs up . Thats what i am trying to say

33. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)

u know.. i totally missed that part. good catch.

if its true, then its a complete surprise since samsung has never mentioned this combination.

and if thats true..

WHY THE HELL IS THE MALI400 IN THE SGS3 AND NOT THIS GPU!?!?!?

:)

42. Dr.Phil (Posts: 1669; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)

I honestly believe that what we are seeing is just a test device. I think they are just testing out the new graphics of the Mali t-604. hung2900 is right that the listed specs on the benchmark match the GSIII's processor. My guess is that they don't have the Exynos 5 series chipset ready yet (it is suppose to be ready in a month), so they are possibly just trying the graphics chipset first and then they may test it again with the 5-series chipset in it. Then, they will most likely make a business decision as to whether to use the new 5-series chipset or the Exynos 4412 if it is sufficient enough. Remember, they will need to weigh in the extra cost that may be associated with the 5-series chipset as well as supplies of it. The other guess is just as PA pointed out: a higher resolution screen. Remember, they are trying to compete with the new iPad so they would need some higher resolution display than what they showed on the Note 10.1 back at MWC.

I am very excited about this device though. Even if it just comes with the 4412, I think it will be a superb tablet. My only hope is that the price still comes in around $500.

43. Hemlocke (unregistered)

As soon as the LG Eclipse LTE gets benchmarked, I doubt the S3 will be anywhere close to "King of the Hill."

38. Non_Sequitur (Posts: 1111; Member since: 16 Mar 2012)

I will too, but only if it comes with a screen the same or better than the upcoming Transformer Prime Infinity. And it also needs a good keyboard dock with USB ports.
Let's also see how this compares to the Asus Padfone.

39. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)

they pushed this back to put in a bigger chip and GPU after the crowds moaned at it's dual core nature. Now its quadcore with a massive GPU. That would be nearly meaningless on the short term unless they were raising the screen density/resolution. Maybe thats where the Super Amoled+ HD screens will end up? A nice thought for sure.

44. hung2900 (Posts: 965; Member since: 02 Mar 2012)

Actually I wish it has an IGZO retina display: nice, thin and extremely power efficient.

30. thelegend6657 (unregistered)

well i do hope there is an upgrade to the HTC OneX I like it very much but i find it not as good as the s3 . Maybe they would do a OneXE of something like that

11. thelegend6657 (unregistered)

But live wallpaper will sometimes lag on powervr sgx540 . Hint galaxy nexus

16. remixfa (Posts: 14605; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)

thats an issue with a poorly implemented live wallpaper. A program is only as good as its programmer.

23. ph00ny (Posts: 1555; Member since: 26 May 2011)

Nah

Problem is poor choice of hardware. There are microstutters sometimes even in the app drawer

27. thelegend6657 (unregistered)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1rdoCy8iKk
see how laggy is the nexus with live wallpaper enabled

31. thelegend6657 (unregistered)

BTW , he answered my question on do older launcher's work i asked on his nova launcher review

36. PimpStrong (Posts: 310; Member since: 25 Jul 2011)

I owned a G'Nex briefly. Couldn't believe that a stock LWP made the phone lag. The same wallpaper runs just fine on my TMO GSII.