cheve | # 11 | 2011-01-24, 17:57 | Report

isn't it a case of if you build it, they will come

Imagine the speed of all those simulators would run at... one might even have to inject a few loops to slow them down!

cheers,

ysss | # 12 | 2011-01-24, 18:04 | Report

Yep, exactly
A developer should always be thinking of "what more can I do, given I have access to more resources..."

Nah, there are plenty of a/v treatments/filters that can be added to the chain to improve the aesthetics... and a p2p multiplayer layer... cheats, hacks... and even more powerful systems to emulate.

cheve | # 13 | 2011-01-24, 18:09 | Report

I am still thinking about my dosbox/emulator is running too fast

Russianhaxor | # 14 | 2011-01-24, 18:48 | Report

Glad to see you guys are enjoying my site.

JohnLF | # 15 | 2011-11-10, 09:29 | Report

Was going to start a new thread but found this one...

http://www.noticeorange.com/StoryBod...ww&font_size=9

Quad core demo'd, I notice there is a very low power 5th core that does most of the work, the others come online as required. Very elegant! There is also a 12-core GPU !!

bluefoot | # 16 | 2011-11-13, 21:48 | Report

Exciting times, but NVIDIA's mobile GPUs suck terribly in performance and efficiency terms compared to both ARM's own Mali & Imagination Technologies' PowerVR.

They may be first out of the gate with a quad-core, but there'll be ones with way more powerful GPUs and no doubt more elegant CPU-portion designs soon. Plus, in their rush to get this out it'll be on 40nm ... the ones coming out in Q1 & Q2 next year from other companies will be 28nm and actually consume significantly less juice (even at peak load) than today's dual cores.

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Estel | # 17 | 2011-11-13, 21:55 | Report

Honestly, I don't see any reason for being excited. Just give me more RAM and miniHDMI out on N900, and I'm happy penguin

Yea, I can imagine HDMI output @ 1080p could use powerful DSP/GPU, but quad cores of CPU? Hm, maybe dosbox emulating some powerful machine to play SystemShock (1) smoothly... Not many more useful things, I suspect.

Of course, bloatware industry will - probably - benefit from that. Which is of none interest to me, even less anything to be happy about.

/Estel

lma | # 18 | 2011-11-14, 00:45 | Report

Nah, dosbox (and of course anything that runs inside it) is single threaded. Seriously, 4 cores on a mobile device, with software written the way it is today, is completely superfluous. Even on my workstation most cores are idle unless I'm compiling.

Those tegra3s might make a nice build farm for some ARM distro or other though.

StefanL | # 19 | 2011-11-14, 00:45 | Report

I am running some FE analysis under DOSBOX, it's already taken almost a week to get to 850 secs of simulated time. I guess that will do ya

Kangal | # 20 | 2011-11-14, 03:39 | Report

I personally can't wait to see ARM's next-gen big.LITTLE computing.
Basically a (28nm) 1GHz Cortex A7 that runs when the system is in idle. When on-demand, (28nm) Dual-Core A15 Eagles clocked at 1.5GHz are activated.

With 1GB of DDR3 RAM, 64GB NAND, a decent gpu, dsp and other modules... it should bring mobile performance on-par with last-gen's personal computers (Intel SU7300).

Which means on low-power mode it should give similar performance to something like an OMAP3630 but with 30% less battery drain. And on high-performance it should consume about the same amount as a regular 1GHz Dual-Cortex A9 (like Tegra2) but offer a large performance boost (estimated about 7-fold).

Now if a beast like that had real software (Linux-base, bug-free with proper GUI like Kde/Qt) then it should rival even today's ultraportables.

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