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[simplytom]

[I think Intel has made steady progress in graphics and in taking market share from both AMD and Nvidia. I don't see putting more effort into this area should be their top priority. Apparently you do.

Aeassa is so funny when he is talking about GPU-Power-numbers.
And then they use GFXBench off-screen-rendering numbers.
This bench is only measuring theoretical gpu-numbers with little cpu interference. This is a useless number.
Why not 3dmark Ice Storm scores. They are useless as well but they are a lot closer to real world fps of the complete system.

In Desktop-World GPU is the limit (you can purchase a slow i5 and the best Geforce and everything is vanilla) in mobile World it is by far more unbalanced. There are CPU-limits all around.
Setting to lower gpu details is easy
Setting the maximum number of monsters to a lower number can make a game boring.

When it comes to CPU:

This is fact:
4 Silvermont-Cores are more powerefficient and stronger in raw numbers than 4 Qualcomm-krait cores.

This is fact:
4 Silvermont-Cores are more powerefficient and stronger in raw numbers than 2 Apple-A7-64bit-Cyclone cores.

And I predict that:
4 Silvermont-Cores are more powerefficient and stronger in raw numbers than 2 nvidia-Denver-64bit-Cores.


So let's look at the games people play on tablets:
Minecraft
Cut the rope
Angry Birds
Plague Inc
Doodle Jump
World of Goo
Bridge Constructor
Tetris
Airhockey

If the crowd wants to play an ego-shooter the crowd goes to the Desktop-PC.

From a game-software-developer-point-of-view:
I look at the graphics-power of the tablets which are currently out at the customers (take a look at the high-volume-devices).

Kindle Fire HD 7 (TI OMAP)
Kindle Fire HDX 7 (Snapdragon 800 but much smaller sales numbers)
Ipad 2
Ipad Mini
Ipad Air
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7-inch (TI OMAP)
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7-inch (Marvell PXA)

The average gpu-processing-power of tablets is lower then the average gpu-processing-power of phones.
This is because there are a lot Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4 out in the market.

Do you think a high-demanding ego-shooter will sell very well on poor tablets?

Currently I'm quite disappointed about using tablets as productivity tools. Because the EMMC-storage is a weak point.

Next they claim the tablets have a fast wifi but in real life there have very poor implementations.