On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Lawrence E. Bakst <[email protected]>wrote:
> At 4:31 PM -0500 1/28/11, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: > >The Tegra is probably one of the best ARM chips out there... > > > > > >No it isn't; the Tegra lacks NEON. > > > >-- vs > > 1. I should have said: > > "The Tegra 2 is probably one of the best ARM based SOCs out there ..." > > 2. It lacks NEON because it doesn't need that ISA. The chip has an > integrated GPU which does the same thing a different way. > 1. Oh, huh, the Tegra 2 is available now? I wasn't aware, sorry about that. Looks like it is A9-based, yay. 2. If your task is amenable to the integrated GPU, sure; but its not fair to say that NEON and GPUs (or the OMAP's DSP) do the same thing. -- vs
