[ris]

"Total computing power" is massively load-dependent. And I don't think The VideoCore IV is massively outstanding in the field of embedded GPUs.

Links? This is turning into a let-me-google-that-for-you, but they appear very regularly on http://linuxgizmos.com

[vardump]

I see it more like a SIMD processor than a GPU. It's not massively outstanding, but there's a lot of value of it having an open documentation, a known instruction set.