Apple New iPad 3 vs Asus Transformer Prime

With the New iPad finally released, people are finally face to face with the highly anticipated iPad 3, which has been named the 'New iPad' by Apple. The new iPad has received good reviews for its many features like higher resolution screen and a faster processor speed. It however failed to meet the expectation of many people as there was no new feature added. Let us compare the new ipad with Asus Transformer Prime, which is another well reputed tablet pc available in market. So which one you going to buy? Here is the comparison!

Screen And Display

Both the Asus transformer Prime and the New iPad have capacitive display with multi-touch functionalities. The Asus Transformer Prime comes with a 10.1" Super IPS LCD screen with a resolution of 1280x 800 pixels. It comes with a scratch resistant Corning Gorilla glass. The Apple iPad on the other hand comes with a 9.6" LED backlit IPS TFT screen with a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels. It has a scratch resistant glass screen with an oleophobic coating to reduce finger prints.

Memory

The Asus Transformer Prime houses a 1GB RAM with 32 or 64 GB internal memory storage. It comes with an external SD memory card slot which supports upto 32 GB. The Apple iPad on the other hand comes with 16, 32 and 64 GB memory options but has no external memory card slot to add external memory.

Camera

The New iPad comes with a 5 MP camera which is almost same as the camera in iPhone 4S. It has a 5 MP resolution with HD video recording capabilities at 30fps. Also it has a secondary camera with VGA resolution. The Transformer Prime on the other hand has an 8 Mp camera. It also comes with HD video shooting capabilities with 1080 px and a better secondary camera at 1.2 Mp.

Operating System And Processor

The new iPad is based on the iOS 5.1 operating system with a dual core 1GHz dual core chip Apple A5X chip. It has a quad-core PowerVR SGX543MP4 graphics card. The Transformer Prime on the other hand comes with the Android v3.2 Honeycomb Operating system which can be upgraded to v4 Ice Cream Sandwich. It packs a 1.3GHz Quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor with ULP GeForce GPU. And here is a Comparison of A5X vs Tegra 3.

Body and sound

The Apple iPad has a dimension of 241.2 x 185.7 x 9.4 mm and weighs 662g. The Asus Transformer Prime on the other hand has dimensions of 263 x 180.8 x 8.3 mm and weighs 586g.

Both the tablets have in-built loudspeakers and 3.5 mm jack to plug in the earphone.

Browser And Connectivity

Both the tablets are available in Wifi as well as 3G+ WiFi configurations. The Apple iPad has in built Safari browser and does not support flash and java. The Asus Transformer Prime on the other hand supports both flash and java.


The Apple iPhone comes with a 42.5 Wh battery which can be used continuously for 10 hours. The Asus Transformer on the other hand comes with 25Wh Li-Po battery and can be used for 12 hours.

Clearly the New iPad is the winner with the screen resolution and stamina battery. Asus Transformer Prime will be your best bet if you watch lot of youtube videos or take pictures however.

Apple A5X vs NVIDIA Tegra 3

In presenting the New iPad on March 7, Phil Schiller, vice president of marketing for the firm, compared the graphics power of the A5X processor integrated into the new Apple tablet to that of NVIDIA's Tegra 3 Processor. Although flattered to be taken as basis of comparison, the leaders of the brand known ( NVIDIA ) for its graphics cards did not like to see their new processor, quad-core and GPU with a 12-core, Four Times lower than the Apple New iPad (dual-core and GPU with a 4 hearts). This is the voice of Ken Brown as the company wanted to know more about the conditions of testing that revealed these results.

Although Apple has not responded to this remark, They will not have to wait until the release of the New iPad to get the results of comparative tests. Indeed, some parts are already free (as evidenced by the unpacking done by the site Tinhte.vn), allowing the curious to make various benchmarks. Also, it is already possible to find the results on sites like GLBenchmark.

Results : Apple A5X is benchmarked against NVIDIA Tegra 3.

On the latter, it is possible to compare the New iPad (referred to as the iPad 3) and the ASUS Transformer Prime, one tablet at present to dispose of the Tegra 3 processor and the results are A5X Display is Four Times Better than Tegra 3.

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If the New iPad can not be four times higher than the Transformer Prime as shown at the conference of Apple, it should be noted that most of its results are still higher, and it still displays double or even triple the frames when viewed in 720p, not constrained by the vertical sync.

This is a Performance Comparison video :

In other words, without reaching the phenomenal scores reported by Phil Schiller at the conference, the third generation iPad is definitely better bill with regard to the posting, but anyway, the fans have already their choice.