NVIDIA Tegra 4 beats Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 in benchmark tests

2. jaytai0106 posted on 24 Feb 2013, 17:31 7

I think there will be a point when we think speed isn't everything anymore. But right now it's awesome to see when a new CPU comes out. However, I think my nexus 4 is so freaky smooth and I have yet to see it lag a bit st all :)

3. SmartPhoneStream posted on 24 Feb 2013, 17:37 2

And the Snapdragon 800 will be the top Smartphone Processor while the Quad-Core Intel Atom Bay Trail will be the top Tablet Processor

4. darac posted on 24 Feb 2013, 17:53 7

36 500 on Antutu is some 10-12 000 points more than the best of the rest.
And you call that beating?
I call it ANNIHILATING

5. _Bone_ posted on 24 Feb 2013, 17:54 9

No surprise, the 600 is Qualcomm's "midranger", the 800 is the real deal. Wonder about power consumption though. I'm pretty sure Sammy could throw the Exynos 5 Octa in running at 2GHz and crush benchmarks, yet it's not gonna be used anytime soon due to draaaainage. Simply put, once multi-tasking is fluid it should be all about energy saving not breaking records, cause something that doesn't lag can't lag less, now can it?

6. darac posted on 24 Feb 2013, 17:58 3

Oh and geekbench?
I said I expect best ARM chips to break 4000 this year.. Tegra 4 just crossed it.
That's the score of some Intel core machines out there.. this could push midrange desktops easily!
And with no hyper threading and relatively low memory bandwidth with just 1Mb L2 cache on 32 bit code.. when ARM A60 sorts this all out, I see the fight being on on all computing fronts!

9. nikenturd (unregistered) posted on 24 Feb 2013, 18:01 3

I'll actually believe it when production Tegra 4 units beats the Snapdragon....Nvidia is a master of hype and if it indeed delivers I might actually get one....right now Qualcomm is still king

14. vandroid posted on 24 Feb 2013, 18:19 3

People should really wait for snapdragon 800 devices

15. imkyle posted on 24 Feb 2013, 18:21 1

Congrats to Nvidia but I'm still verry happy with my Nexus 4.

16. rgxVOiD posted on 24 Feb 2013, 18:29 1

and according to the pro-technologist, HTC One is now inferior because of this chip even though it was launched a couple of days ago

18. bigstrudel posted on 24 Feb 2013, 18:33 2

Who cares really. Even the S4 Pro thats currently on the market is 100% smooth and snappy. My Optimus G is stuck on ICS but I cant even notice. Less power, more battery life please.

19. yowanvista posted on 24 Feb 2013, 18:35 3

Benchmark results do not necessarily translate into real life performance. The HTC One for instance lags a bit. (Check the Neowin hands on). You can very easily tune your software to work flawlessly on a single core device, that's precisely what WP us doing and yet the performance is top notch even if the SoC scores lower in benchmarks. It's pointless to have so much beefier SoCs when the software in question (Android) will never take advantage of the additional power. The Dalvik VM wasn't even optimized for multicore SoCs nor does it even support multithreading and Google hasn't yet found a way to improve their VM. Manufacturers just release new SoCs to assure their dominance. It's just about scores obtained by putting the hardware to stress under very specific conditions and obtaining a result based on how the chip reacted. No single chip is designed to react to the same conditions, each has slight differences so those numbers are irrelevant.

22. KingKurogiii posted on 24 Feb 2013, 19:09 2

this lines up with what i've been saying, the T4 is no pushover. it positions itself right in between the Snapdragon 600 and 800 quite comfortably. the T4 is what i'll want in my next phone meaning i hope that's what Moto has in mind for the X.

23. babyk posted on 24 Feb 2013, 19:21 1

theres no way snapdragon 600 would have beaten tegra 4. So we saw that coming already. Snapdragon 800 will be beaten as well. Just hope nvidia will fix their heat issues and give me a 5 inch 1080p with HTC and good battery life and I'm good 32 or 64 gb memory

24. Taters posted on 24 Feb 2013, 19:22 0

Interesting. Crazy benchmarks, some higher than a Core 2 Duo. I find it hard to believe though. I know Qualcomm is not the most unbiased source but they said the Tegra 4 was nothing special and was very similar to the S4 pro. Trash talking yet but if the Tegra 4 really is this beastly, that Qualcomm guy is an idiot for opening his mouth about it.

26. omar300 posted on 24 Feb 2013, 20:00 0

i just want the best battery life processor. im expecting alot from snapdragon. i hope it delivers. nvidia and exynos have always been about gaming so im not really interested in those. those look good in tablet only.

27. dermit88 posted on 24 Feb 2013, 20:09 1

Give me a 8 core Krait chip with 6 A7s at 1.2 ghz and 2 A15s at 2 ghz. Now give me a quad core Kepler GPU and a 6,600 maH graphite battery. Make the A15s be smart and only kick on for games and web browsing. 4 Gigs of ram, loud speakers to shut up the Apple douches7mm thickness and with a military inspired Moto look, stock KLP running the show on an edge to edge 4.7 inch 1080p screen, and you will have my money in your pockets

31. nikenturd (unregistered) posted on 24 Feb 2013, 20:59 2

Remember when the Tegra 3 didnt live up to the hype? Im seeing the same story here...thats why Asus, HTC, Sony and the rest of the pack are reluctant to use the Tegra 4 in their devices....Nvidia fans, dont rejoice just yet until we actually see production samples.

35. Tux_Alan posted on 24 Feb 2013, 23:33 0

Hoping to see this chip in the nexus 7.7 in may, serioisly eyeing that small tablet.

36. legend1 posted on 25 Feb 2013, 00:50 0

hahaha this i didn't expect well done nvidia

40. Reverence posted on 25 Feb 2013, 06:03 0

Thing is that tegra 4 was defeated in Graphics department by A6X only and snapdragon 600 is not the flagship, the flagship is 800 so it should be 800 vs tegra 4!

41. Assa7inKing posted on 25 Feb 2013, 06:51 0

Dammmmmm !!! WTH !!! WTH !!! 35,000+ Man !! Are They crazy ?

43. babyk posted on 25 Feb 2013, 10:30 0

The problem has always been about heat and battery life. Tegra 4 octa or even snapdragon they all can deliver extreme performance on any mobile device that can beat a6x.

44. mikegonzalez2k posted on 27 Feb 2013, 19:07 0

Do a fair comparison, the Snapdragon 600 was the same generation as the Tegra 3, and it was 2.5x faster than Tegra3. That being said the it is biased to compare Tegra4 with the 600. Of course it's better than the 600, it better be or it's crap. The only fair comparison would be against the Snapdragon 800 which is the same generation. Otherwise you're comparing with last year's performance.