Tegra 3 on a BBX?

[xnwrx]

please no tegra 3. TI OMAP are by far much better SoC. OMAP4 would be a very good candidate, and why not an OMAP5 with dual 2GHz cortex A15 +low power real-time companion cores.
Comparing invidia Tegra chips and TI OMAP chips is just similar to comparing Apple vs. RIM. One is geek platform for kids whilst the other is very pro.
Think that OMAP4 outperforms TEGRA2 in all domains, by a factor of 2 in some cases. Also think that a dual core 1GHz Apple A5 is close to a 1.3GHz Tegra 3 in all domains... A 1.5 GHz OMAP4470 is better than Tegra 3· Talking about 3D graphics, OMAP4470 outperforms Tegra 3 as well.
Comparison with Apple ipad2 (A5 chip equivalent to OMAP4470 @ 1 GHz):
AnandTech - ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime & NVIDIA Tegra 3 Review

Marketing....can make beleive a bullsheet is gold...the problem is that most people beleive marketing because of a lack of expertise.

[lebob23]

The fact is you are wrong.
Tegra 2 = omap 4430
Tegra 3 is 80% better than both.
A5 = T3 in gaming only.

Omap does use 40% less power though so if you OC'ed a omap 4470 to 2.5GHZ it would use the same amount of power as a tegra 3 or A5 and offer the same performance.

Basically the Ipad 2 is worth less than 450 if the prime is 499, and our playbooks were still reasonably priced. Except we don't have iOS or android 3.2 so some of us are pissed

[xnwrx]

I disagree. Tegra 3 still uses single channel LPDDR (32 bits) and still provides a single 1 MB of L2 cache despit its quad cores architecture. SGX443 GPU in OMAP4470 is close to Tegra 3 GPU because of the frequency used. SGX443 MP GPU outperforms tegra3 GPU. So wait for OMAP 5 next year ;-)

[d-backs1]

Originally Posted by FourOhFour

4470 won't be out in time. My bet would be on a 1.5GHz 4460.
And/or what the "Q" guy above says.

Hopefully TI will have their stuff together and be able to have enough of those chips for RIM since they had to cancel many of their orders of those chips because they couldn't get them clocked to 1.5ghz and stable like they are supposed to be.