Nvidia's new quad-core mobile processor, Tegra 3, offers only a modest improvement over Apple's A5, according to early benchmark tests.
TechCrunch reports that Nvidia's long-standing boast that Tegra 3 would leave the likes of A5, the processor used in the iPad, trailing in its wake appears to be wide of the mark.
In most tests, Tegra 3 running on a Transformer Prime tablet edged out iPad 2, and was even beaten in one OpenGL graphical test. But it's still early days: the benchmarking tools used may not yet be optimised for Tegra 3, and there is no test available that compares CPU performance.
Either way, Tegra 3 is still a huge leap over its predecessor, and is expected to be the standard processor in the next wave of Android tablets running Ice Cream Sandwich, the next version of Google's mobile operating system.
Source: TechCrunch