NVIDIA Tegra 4 gets benchmarked, running inside a Project Shield console

2. hung2900 (Posts: 965; Member since: 02 Mar 2012)

Image for the benchmark
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1931630&d=1367565823

3. _Bone_ (Posts: 2155; Member since: 29 Oct 2012)

Yup, plenty of performance in the Exynos 5.

9. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)

Well, the Exynos seems to be superior if you count in the screen resolution

21. rd_nest (Posts: 1656; Member since: 06 Jun 2010)

Note that the nVidia Shield runs a heat sink. So it has much more thermal tolerance, which can never be expected in a smartphone.
Any device with a heat sink will be able to generate better benchmark results.

Comparing against smartphone is apples-to-orange comparison.

If Exynos is actually similar in benchmark, I would think that nvidia should be able to get better result. The thermal limits are so much higher compared to a smartphone. I expect better numbers.

27. Reverence (Posts: 224; Member since: 16 Jul 2012)

No one cares about the benchmarks.....we only need no lag, and even when you try to run android on and x86 processor, it lags.....hardware can bring about some difference but significant difference in performance can only be brought by google themselves...just like they did with project butter!

20. hung2900 (Posts: 965; Member since: 02 Mar 2012)

Inside this reference device is a NAND chip which is not expected to appear in a mobile handset in the near future. This one boost the benchmark significantly (like a high speed SSD in PC, even much more significantly coz the current NAND flash is miserably slow)

7. faisolbauuz (Posts: 121; Member since: 05 Jan 2013)

So the conclusion is tegra 4 is weaker than gs4 in benchmark and dont forget the snapdragon 800 is coming

23. taikucing (unregistered)

Perhaps you mean "tegra 4 is weaker than snapdragon", not weaker than SGS4.

12. taikucing (unregistered)

ooops, a typo here..
it should be:
720p : 1080 = 1 : 1.5

14. faisolbauuz (Posts: 121; Member since: 05 Jan 2013)

Haha ane baru nyadar
Btw i dont see any tegra4i version benchmark it should be slower cause of single channel memory and fewer gpu cores though

18. aditya.k (Posts: 496; Member since: 10 Mar 2013)

And Cortex A9 cores! People keep forgetting that! :/

10. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)

Big.Little is working. If they hadn't have made big.Little, you wouldn't even have that Exynos chip in your GS4 because Samsung isn't stupid enough to put a lone quad A15 processor in a phone. Without those 4 battery saving cores, you're phone would only last a few hours on a charge, if that.

ARM advertised increased battery performance when compared to A15 processors without big.Little, not ARM based processors in general. The Exynos 5 Octa delivers 70% less battery consumption than the Exynos 5 Dual, which doesn't have big.Little. The entire point of big.Little was to make A15 usable for phones, which it has done; before, A15 could only be used in tablets because they needed the larger batteries to support them.

28. yadu004 (Posts: 72; Member since: 26 Apr 2013)

I Know the statistics as well, but that is just the theory. They have incorporated a good processor nonetheless but what i'm trying to say is that they need to manage it much more efficiently as i can't see any significant improvement in it compared to other high-end ones. Other day i was experiencing lags as well (opening gallery, camera etc..) but now they have rectified it with a software patch. Similarly they might do some improvements with the battery life down the road.

11. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)

Have you turned off the sensors?
There's a pile of things working under the hood, that you can switch off.
The word is that Samsung's overdone and unoptimized software is the main cause of the battery drain

13. VJo003 (Posts: 360; Member since: 11 Mar 2012)

Agree with you
Lesser the gimmicky stuff better the performance

15. abate (Posts: 43; Member since: 19 Dec 2012)

Then why did they pile all those craps on S4? If you have to switch off all those stuffs, why can't you buy an alternate like HTC One or Xperia Z, and enjoy it?

I mean what's the advantage S4 has, if you have to switch off all those stuffs? Seriously...

No offence here though.. :D

17. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)

Because Samsung is all about marketing gimmicks rather than actual product quality.

We have all these cool features and gestures that will make your life easier!**

**These features must be turned off if you do not want to experience the following: lag, battery drain, and frustration of the features not working as well as we advertise them to.

25. Bluesky02 (Posts: 1439; Member since: 05 Dec 2011)

haha somehow true :D

24. Bluesky02 (Posts: 1439; Member since: 05 Dec 2011)

Interesting point of view from you. The Battery Life is something very important to consider. I guess Note 2 is still a good choice.

19. aditya.k (Posts: 496; Member since: 10 Mar 2013)

Cause they haven't even started production I guess? Not sure! So no one is going to use a Tegra 3. That's why people use S4 Pro or S600! :D

22. RaKithAPeiRiZ (Posts: 1488; Member since: 29 Dec 2011)

you mean Tegra 4 right ?

30. aditya.k (Posts: 496; Member since: 10 Mar 2013)

Yeah!