I don't agree that nVidia is not in competition with Apple, I absolutely think that they want to win people over from Apple products with hardware. But it's hard when you don't have the volumes to do separate phone and tablet focused chips..
I didn't want to get into an overall Tegra vs Apple war here; I was merely speaking about GPU quality on this one. Although I do find "1/4th the CPU performance" a little dishonest.
What, both crushingly slow? That's way past the threshold of relevance if it's far too slow to play anything at.. Look at benchmarks that are more representative of the type of games that both could realistically handle.
Using what.. Shield?
I don't think a lot of people buy something like a tablet or phone with gaming as an overwhelming factor that shadows everything else.
Rogue coming when Logan is? Who told you that? It'll definitely start showing up in devices this year. Probably within in a few months at the latest.
So putting aside that IMG is still with Apple and Samsung moved back to it - and we'll have to see if they don't greatly increase how many S4s and others (Note 3?) contain it once volume increases - there's another big market you're annoying. IMG is in Mediatek SoCs, and now is in Allwinner and Ingenic. So they're going to soak up a large part of the lower cost east Asian market.
nVidia may have struck big with Nexus 7 on Android tablets but their success doesn't extend much beyond that. And they're not getting the next one. In fact we haven't heard much in the way of Tegra 4 design wins at all, so I find the idea that they'll dominate tablets with Tegra 4 questionable.
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