Comments on: OMAP 5 detailed in-depth http://www.slashgear.com/omap-5-detailed-in-depth-27215706/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Thu, 17 May 2012 17:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: MagnetMan http://www.slashgear.com/omap-5-detailed-in-depth-27215706/#comment-189324 MagnetMan Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:45:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=215706#comment-189324 It is.. It is really impressive compared to what is currently available. However, when this chip comes to market, it will likely be overshadowed by faster SoCs. TI is notoriously slow at getting chips in devices.

The CPU performs as well as an entry-level Core2Duo, and the GPU is still industry leading at the moment. At high clocks (~500MHz) it will double the performance of the iPad 2 in raw compute. 

The only problem with the GPU is that it is based off of USSE2 cores which are not OpenCL 1.1 compliant (AFAICT) so when this chip actually makes it to market, it will be missing the very important GPU compute capabilities.

]]> By: Billy Moffat http://www.slashgear.com/omap-5-detailed-in-depth-27215706/#comment-188426 Billy Moffat Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:38:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=215706#comment-188426 I feel like this is being over-sold… surely it’s not THAT big of an improvement on what is currently available? :P

]]> By: FanlessTech http://www.slashgear.com/omap-5-detailed-in-depth-27215706/#comment-188420 FanlessTech Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:22:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=215706#comment-188420 Would LOVE to see the OMAP 5 in a small desktop computer.

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