nVidia has recently published whitepapers showing the true power that it's upcoming Tegra 4 chipset will pack. Tegra 4 phones are still a long way away, with internal sources saying at least August before we see a launched product. Nevertheless, the future of Tegra 4 looks good considering it's performance compared to Tegra 3 (and competition).
Tegra 4 Whitepapers
The first picture tells us about the relative performance for the Tegra 4 compared to the Tegra 3. As yo can see, the 72 core (vs 12 core) GPU (new architecture) combined with the higher core clock of 672 MHz (vs 520 MHz) provides performance boost lying anywhere between 1.3 times to 8 times. That's great!
Tegra 4i will feature a slightly cut down GPU compared to the Tegra 4 with 60 cores only. Also, the comparison is being done with a slower clocked (416 MHz) Tegra 3 GPU and not the full clocked one. Even then, we are being promised a nice performance boost across the board.
We can only hope that all of these charts translate to real world gains as well.
This last chart shows die size and performance efficiency for the Tegra 4, which is simply excellent. The only place it loses out is the Fill Rate, but the Fill Rate/mm^2 is higher anyways.
All things looking good for nVidia's Tegra 4. Now we await products based on the same.
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Tegra 4 Whitepapers
The first picture tells us about the relative performance for the Tegra 4 compared to the Tegra 3. As yo can see, the 72 core (vs 12 core) GPU (new architecture) combined with the higher core clock of 672 MHz (vs 520 MHz) provides performance boost lying anywhere between 1.3 times to 8 times. That's great!
Tegra 4i will feature a slightly cut down GPU compared to the Tegra 4 with 60 cores only. Also, the comparison is being done with a slower clocked (416 MHz) Tegra 3 GPU and not the full clocked one. Even then, we are being promised a nice performance boost across the board.
We can only hope that all of these charts translate to real world gains as well.
This last chart shows die size and performance efficiency for the Tegra 4, which is simply excellent. The only place it loses out is the Fill Rate, but the Fill Rate/mm^2 is higher anyways.
All things looking good for nVidia's Tegra 4. Now we await products based on the same.
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