Hold the phone...

Taylor Wimbly of Android and Me is rumoring that the Galaxy S II will contain the dual core orion.


http://androidandme.com/2011/02/phon...al-core-orion/

If true, then this bodes well for the Tab II.

The Orion SoC is claimed to have an insane GPU -- the first use of the looks-great-on-paper Mali 400 core -- in addition to out-of-order code pipelining. Offering "5x the performance" of the current Hummingbird
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3901/g...-cortex-a9-soc

http://www.samsungunpacked.com/

7" Tab II @ 1024x600 with an Orion, would be a device to be revered.

It's heating up.

EDIT: I just read that Mali 400 will feature 'rotated grid super sampling' for it's anti-aliasing technique. What an interesting way to anti-alias! Basically, it takes the scene and rotates it slightly so that the grid of pixels do not fall directly on the final rendered pixel, and thus are rendered smooth. In other words it offers 4x antialiasing with NO loss in performance. The image quality of games rendered on Mali should be quite high.

Very interesting.. It mentions that the throughput is 30M triangles, which isn't terribly impressive, but as always graphic performance will have to be benchmarked to get an honest representation.