I haven't used the Shield Tablet so I'm not sure (I only have a Jetson TK1, that uses CUDA on Linux). It isn't possible to directly compare CUDA on Tegra K1 versus CUDA on any other mobile device, whereas there are obviously many competing devices supporting OpenCL, so the linked benchmark results are probably the closest thing there is to an apples-to-apples comparison of GPGPU compute performance on Tegra K1 versus all the competition. If a marketing slide on the NVIDIA website said Tegra K1 gets 5x boost in OpenCL compared to the next contendor then I'd understand the skepticism, but the linked results are for the industry-wide standard benchmark used for GPGPU comparisons.

Benchmarks should always be taken with some skepticism, but as an Engineer (not a Marketer) I know that Tegra K1's GPU really does optimize many whole algorithms by around 5x compared to competing mobile devices, so this isn't BS.

"Conformant" does not mean it is actually running faster due to GPU hardware acceleration. On mobile, "conformant" OpenCL usually just means it runs on the CPU or runs on the GPU at a very slow speed, as opposed to Tega K1 that is giving clear GPU speedups.

OpenCL isn't supported by Tegra K1 on Linux4Tegra (ie: Jetson TK1 embedded board) but it is clearly supported on Android, hence why this benchmark was able to execute and post results.

Recent iPhones certainly have very powerful PowerVR GPUs, and Apple was the original creator of OpenCL. But can you show any benchmarks or proof that iPhone 5S allows GPU-accelerated OpenCL apps?

The Anandtech article clearly mentions that OpenCL in Nexus 10 was an unsupported feature that hackers figured out how to use but it wasn't actually intended for developers to use officially, hence why it disappeared soon after an update. So I guess you are right that Tegra K1 is perhaps not the first mobile chip to do GPU accelerated OpenCL, but it is the first one to officially offer it and provide full support to ensure it runs well without bugs and without high power draw, etc.

And yes it's true that the Jetson TK1 embedded Linux board doesn't support OpenCL at all, but that is due to Linux OS related issues. There are only OpenCL drivers for Tegra K1 on Android, not Linux (unfortunately!). That doesn't change the fact that the Tegra K1 chip supports hardware-accelerated OpenCL on Android.

So I don't see either of those 2 points as being false information or dishonest.

Actually I worked in a university in United Arab Emirates near the border of Oman, and there were about 10x more females studying IT & post-grad in computer or engineering related fields than male students!

We assume it is because the local Emirati's in UAE are so rich that they don't need to study or work, but since females are expected to marry and become a house-wife & mother, the most obvious way for them to not have that way of life is if they become a professional. so we believe this explained why UAE has so many female IT & Engineering students of high quality, but almost no male IT or Engineering students and most of the males there are of very low quality since they are just doing it for fun.

Nice summary of USA :-) I also prefer the free healthcare & education rather than a powerful military, but I guess that's because I'm not American!

But phones don't have to be so small that they can't fit proper camera hardware. I already carry a 1/2" digicam in my pocket, so I'd be happy to replace it with a 1/2" phone that includes a digicam-level lens & camera sensor.

Sure there is always going to be a market for people that want smaller & smaller phones, but also there is a market for people that want phones as large as a digicam, if it means much better camera system, much bigger battery, potentially a larger keypad, and potentially shutter & zoom buttons on the side of the phone so you can actually use it like a digicam.