New iPad is 5 degrees C hotter than iPad 2

The analyst thinks Apple will dominate the tablet market through at least the next three years. Munster predicts that Apple will sell 66 million iPads in calendar year 2012, growing to 176 million in calendar 2015.

You knew the new iPad was hot. It is in more ways than one. In heavy use, it’s five degrees C warmer than its predecessor, according to the “Tweakers.net” site — as translated by “Endgadget” (http://macte.ch/tA9Cp).

This is probably due to the more powerful graphics processing unit (GPU), the article adds, using the GLBenchmark for results.The graphics processor is the same as in the iPad 2 is, but it has more shader cores. The A5 processor from the iPad 2 has a PowerVR GPU SGX543MP2, while the new iPad has a SGX543MP4.