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    Nvidia Tegra Performance

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by peli_kan, Jun 4, 2009.

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    peli_kan Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm having a hard time placing the Tegra's performance, even after watching many demos and browsing Computex news. As I understand it, the Tegra's graphics performance, both in decoding video and 3D rendering, is far superior to the GMA 950 found in most netbooks, while its CPU is far behind the atom. Tegra, along with Snapdragon, appear to be very viable solutions to the netbook stagnation we're caught in.

    Edit: Me gots good info now http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=386003
    http://gizmodo.com/5277326/mobile-chipsets--are-atom-tegra-and-snapdragon
    http://arstechnica.com/hardware/reviews/2008/07/atom-nano-review.ars

    Okaaaaay, reading that last ars technica article made me too angry at the 945G chipset to sleep. Thanks intel.
     
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    Nvidia tegra it's aimed at embed systems. It's a system-on-a-chip for PDA's smartphones etc. nothing similar to netbooks or netops. That's why it doesn't need a good cpu. It's already capable of decoding 1080p while consuming very very few watts.
     
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    The Cortex processors appear to be no slouches, and can run the ARM port of Ubuntu. Very cool.
     
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