The iPad 4 turned out to be more powerful than the PS Vita

Sony’s portable console is no longer the most powerful mobile device: Apple’s fourth-generation tablet has overtaken the PS Vita in performance. 

James Pickover from Venture Beat compared the technical data on the latest iPad, obtained by specialists from AnandTech, with the well-known PS Vita specifications. As a result, he found out that the graphics processor of the system-on-A6X chip is twice as productive as that of a portable console.

PS Vita itself has big problems now: there are few games for this console, and where there are few games, there are few users.  However, he came to this logically. 

The fact is that only iOS and Android mobile devices were compared in synthetic tests at AnandTech. According to them, it turned out that the iPad 4 is twice as cool as the iPad 3 in many technical parameters: twice as much RAM, the GPU calculates graphics twice as fast, the processor is twice as productive. 

In turn, the same GPU on the iPad 3 was comparable in performance to the graphics component of the PS Vita. The differences were reduced to the operating clock frequency and the architecture of the chip. Considering this, as well as the presence of the iPad 3 with a much higher resolution than the “rival”, with the CPU of a portable console overclocked to 2 Ghz (versus 1 GHz for the iPad 3), the PS Vita was the leader in power.

A6X in the flesh But with the release of the iPad 4, the situation, of course, has changed.

Now, continuing to think logically, almost like James, we can conclude that with such hardware, the latest version of Apple’s large tablet is capable of at least the same graphic wonders as the PS Vita. 

The only question is, are the developers themselves ready for such opportunities?