The still orangeade surf board Lenovo LePad K2 with what is said to be a Tegra 3 at 1.6 GHz has been performance tested by Lenovo itself in GLBenchmark 2.1. Graphics performance is well above the Tegra 2, but how does it actually stand against the competition?
We are still awaiting the first test results of the ASUS Transformer Prime, which officially is the first device with NVIDIA Tegra third But Lenovo is the first to leak the results of what may be a sequel of the Tegra 3, then according to the information will come clocked at 1.6 GHz (T33) and not 1.3 GHz (T30) as the original. Surf plate Lenovo LePad K2 should have been tested with a free version of GLBenchmark, which meant that the results were uploaded in the public database for GLBenchmark. The operating system used was not Ice Cream Sandwich, but Honeycomb 3.2 which is still the standard among the major surf plates today.
In the first test, it looks good if you look at Android devices, and NVIDIA's claim of up to 3x faster graphics performance than Tegra 2 looks to sue. Tegra 3, 2.6x higher performance than its predecessors and takes top position among Android devices. But Apple and the powerful SGX543MP2 found in their Apple A5 continues to be on top of graphics performance.
The Pro version is so Tegra 3 still on top, but the distances from Samsung Exynos 4210 and Mali-400 is significantly shorter. The performance increase is here in just 1.93x on Tegra second Apple pulls away and also secures the performance throne.
NVIDIA's focus looks more like standing at the four (five) nuclei, while the graphics had to take second priority. We were hoping for better graphics from a company that NVIDIA and the risk is that other players will go on in that regard in the near future. Samsung has their new Exynos 4212 and again in principle, the same circuit as before Exynos 4210, though it is based on 32nm instead of 45nm. Exynos comes with increased clock speed to 1.5 GHz processor component, while the Mali-400 graphics, a performance increase of 50 percent, probably by increasing frequency of 267-400 MHz.
Then there is the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 with its new Krait architecture, and new Adreno graphics, which will be based on a 28nm process. While we do not know which performance S4 will get, so will their new graphics chips to be several times more powerful than what they have to offer today. But Exynos 4212 is not expected to appear in one smartphone until the end of first quarter next year, and Snapdragon S4 sometime during the second quarter.
Although the Tegra 3 gives a nice boost in graphics performance compared to today's Android platform, so we had hoped for more especially when it can not PLAY A TRUMP Apple A5 actually launched as early as in March 2011. In addition to competition in the Android Market which will arrive in the coming months, Apple has also its Apple A6 and again. What exactly Apple A6 comes equipped with is not yet clear except that it probably will be based on 28nm, but we can expect that it will be sharper than Apple A5 - and thus the NVIDIA Tegra third However, this is a circuit we probably will see on the market only in the third quarter of 2012.
NVIDIA does not keep up with the graphics performance, we see that right seriously, the smartphone and surf flat market, it is often more important than having a maximum processor performance. Just processor performance learns, however, Tegra 3 have plenty of its four Cortex-A9 cores in the 1.4 to 1.6 GHz. Exactly how to stand up against the competition here remains to be seen, but for example, Apple A5 only two Cortex-A9 cores at 1 GHz. We had probably hoped for a little laced additional graphics power of the Tegra 3, but now we are looking forward to get their hands on the platform itself in order to evaluate the details, everything from performance to power consumption and features.
