While it may have fell short with its Tegra 4 SoC, Nvidia's upcoming Tegra K1 SoC definitely looks promising, at least judging from earlier revealed specifications as well as the leaked benchmark results in which it even manages to outperform the might Apple A7 chip.

In case you missed it earlier, Nvidia's Tegra K1, previously known under the Logan codename, packs four 32-bit ARM A15 cores (clocked at 2.0GHz in the benchmark) paired up with a single Kepler-based SMX unit with a total of 192 CUDA cores, which according to Nvidia, is enough to bring console grade performance to smartphones and tablets.

According to results, the Tegra K1 definitely outperforms every SoC currently available on the market and dethrones the all mighty Apple A7 chip. In 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited, Tegra K1 scores 22285 which makes it 25 to 35 percent faster than Tegra 4 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 SoC.

Unfortunately, tests were done on Lenovo's 4K monitor and running on 2.0GHz, while Nvidia claims that Tegra K1 can work at 2.3GHz so we cannot really rely on-screen tests but off-screen ones should be good and it definitely managed to score some good numbers there. Of course, Qualcomm is preparing the Snapdragon 805 with much better Adreno 420 graphics part so we will have to wait to see it compared to that one.

In any case, these are some interesting results and we are definitely looking forward to Mobile World Congress scheduled to start on 24th of February in Barcelona, Spain, where we will most likely see and hear more about both the Tegra K1 and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 805.





Source: TomsHardware.com.