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Tegra k1 smashes Graphics benchmarks ( console quality games on tablets/mobiles comming this year ?

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rish1 Original post #1
Jan 13, 2014 at 2:32 PM
Bombshell announcement with its new Tegra K1 chipset last week, as it ushered in the era of Cortex-A15 processors and Kepler graphics for mobile. The 192-core GPU is certainly its main selling point, and now we get the benchmarks to gauge exactly how much better it will be from anything else currently on the market.

As you can see in the GFXBench score table below, not only does it score 2.5x better in graphics performance than the current cream of the Qualcomm crop, Snapdragon 800, but it is also more than twice faster than the blazing A7 chip in the new iPad Air. In addition, it scores a tad higher than Intel's new HD4400 graphics subset that comes with the Haswell processor line, which is an amazing feat in itself, given that K1 will find itself in slim and light mobile devices soon.

*i-cdn.phonearena.com/images/articles/106103-thumb/Tegra-K1-graphics.jpg

full review of the chip

*www.tomshardware.com/news/lenovo-thinkvision-28-nvidia-tegra-k1-android,25733.html
sujoyp
sujoyp #2
Jan 13, 2014 at 3:01 PM
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whats the news of battery consumption of this chip.
harshilsharma63
Jan 13, 2014 at 5:23 PM
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K1 is really a great chip. Lets see who adopts it and when.
kartikoli
Jan 13, 2014 at 6:11 PM
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^^^ xolo :p
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rish1 #5
Jan 13, 2014 at 7:06 PM
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here is a full fledged prototype review.

Tegra K1 Benchmarks - Application Processors - Tom's Hardware
Hrishi
Hrishi #6
Jan 13, 2014 at 7:20 PM
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As far as I have read , it's quite efficient .
Next thing you know Microsoft has plans for putting this thing under it's Surface tablet's hood.

Two things I loved about this :
1. Puts the Apple's A7 to shame.
2.Tops the Integrated GPU of Haswell processors ( HD4400 ). - A very good news for users having interest in portable gaming consoles and tablets. Although the Hd4400 isn't really that powerful , but still it's a good feat.
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@rish , please format the text so as it becomes easy to read for desktop users. Had hard time reading them because of too much line breaks. Thanks for sharing it though.
Desmond
Desmond #7
Jan 13, 2014 at 7:25 PM
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What about power consumption?
Hrishi
Hrishi #8
Jan 13, 2014 at 7:33 PM
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What about power consumption?


The power consumption is at around 2W or lesser. Decent enough for mobiles and tablets. Isn't it.
amjath
amjath #9
Jan 13, 2014 at 11:29 PM
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lets wait for Snapdragon 805 and Apple A8.
vickybat
vickybat #10
Jan 13, 2014 at 11:30 PM
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Awesome feat. Has really raised the bar of mobile gpu performance.
Can't wait to see the performance of Denver Cores. They should be pitted against Qualcomm's upcoming 64bit custom cores.

lets wait for Snapdragon 805 and Apple A8.

Don't think they can match kepler's performance. Its a huge lead.
Only AMD can, if it comes in this playing field.

Its concentrating on ARM architecture based Opteron servers rather than mobile SoC's.
Hrishi
Hrishi #11
Jan 14, 2014 at 12:14 AM
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lets wait for Snapdragon 805 and Apple A8.

Yeah , but K1 is ahead by leaps and bounds. In terms of GPU processing it'll dance circles.

Only AMD can, if it comes in this playing field.

Its concentrating on ARM architecture based Opteron servers rather than mobile SoC's.

Though , AMD is helping in Adreno right ?
vickybat
vickybat #12
Jan 14, 2014 at 12:16 AM
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Though , AMD is helping in Adreno right ?

No mate, AMD sold Imageon(now Adreno) to Qualcomm way back.
AMD has absolutely no role in the development of Adreno.
Hrishi
Hrishi #13
Jan 14, 2014 at 12:22 AM
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No mate, AMD sold Imageon(now Adreno) to Qualcomm way back.
AMD has absolutely no role in the development of Adreno.
Oh , okay. I though behind the scenes AMD was lending a helping hand in Adreno's development despite of the fact that it sold it to Qualcomm. My Bad.
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rish1 #14
Jan 14, 2014 at 4:55 AM
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Adreno 330 - 24 fps
Adewno 420 - 34 fps ( 40% improvement over 330 as said by Qualcomm )

Adewno 430 - 50 fps ( assuming a 40 % increase )

looks like this year snapdragon will have a hard time... in low end they are already being beaten by mediatek..
in mid range nvidia is ready with Tegra 4i chip and mediatek with LTE octa..
and in high end nvidia took them for a ride this time..
props to nvidia for delaying tegra 4 in favour of tegra 4i and tegra k1 it was the smartest move...
but they will still hold good because of success from 2012 and 2013.. just because.tegra k1 doesn't have LTE integrated and still might have high power consumption for the first k1 chip ..

tegra k1 will be a smashing success in tablets this year .. Mobiles not sure .. they first have to get the second k1 chip in market fast and not delay this time..

@rishi will edit it tomorrow sorry for that .. opera mini sucks

regarding games we won't see anything new this year also because all of this extra gpu power will again be wasted in stupid 1400 resolution and 500 + ppi war ... nvidia might bring 1 or 2 games with optimized graphics and that's about it ... gameloft will release again those freemium games.. freemium model killed gaming for ios and Android ..

thankfully Rockstar released GTA san andreas for android and ios ..
Hrishi
Hrishi #15
Jan 14, 2014 at 5:28 AM
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If there is one thing I like about Nvidia is their dedication towards optimizing games , I think it was called TegraZone HD games.
They were really good. I had a Tegra 2 based device and have played those games on it. It really was smooth. Dead Trgiger , Samurai , Riptide GP , etc. { Tegra 2 wasn't really good at GPU part. }

No doubt with this Nvidia is going to rule the Tablet segment. However for mobiles , I still see Qualcomm holding the ground .
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I don't think we'll get to see k1 chip in a 4"ish device.
Nvidia Shield , Surface Tablets , and Gaming consoles , or maybe Next-Gen Nexus tablets ??
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rish1 #16
Aug 16, 2014 at 9:22 PM
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We benchmark the Tegra K1 chipset, results come out impressive - GSMArena Blog
ankush28
ankush28 #17
Aug 16, 2014 at 10:12 PM
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next chromebook is gonna powered by K1.
kg11sgbg
kg11sgbg #18
Aug 18, 2014 at 3:12 PM
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K1 is really a great chip. Lets see who adopts it and when.


XIAOMI MiPad
Tablet is run by Nvidia Tegra K1 chipset (Quad Core) processor at 2.2GHz:wink:

Probable date of entry into India is after Diwali or on December...only con being its a wi-fi only model, no internal 3G support/sim slot.


Please check here at Xiaomi MiPad Tablet