Nexus 9 Ships Today With 'Denver' Processor And Android 5.0 Lollipop

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From the AndEBench-Pro results that I've seen (www.eembc.org/andebench/index_pro.php), the Nexus 9 (Tegra K1-64) is about 13% faster overall than the next closest tablet (Xiaomi Tech Mi Pad with Tegra K1), but not in every performance category. On CPU performance, it's only a few percentage points behind the Xiaomi, but not that the Nexus 9 is only dual core versus Xiaomi 4 core. Where the Nexus 9 REALLY accelerates is on memory performance (bandwidth and latency). Although they both They are both use LPDDR3 running at 924 MHz, the Tegra K1-64 is dual channel vs single channel on Tegra K1 – 32 bit (also the one on Shield Tablet).

 

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They are both use LPDDR3 running at 924 MHz, the Tegra K1-64 is dual channel vs single channel on Tegra K1 – 32 bit (also the one on Shield Tablet).

No, both chips have the same 64bits DRAM interface and the two variants are even pin-compatible so OEMs can reuse exactly the same platform design for both models with nothing more than a firmware image change if they want to.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7622/nvidia-tegra-k1/2

 

[somebodyspecial]

Google should have waited another few weeks I think and fixed some stuff.

This is easier said than done: no matter how much in-house testing Google might do before launching a new device or Android version, it will still only account for only a tiny fraction of all possible hardware and software configurations people may end up using in the wild.

Personally, I consider new Android version launches like open-betas: if you buy a device soon after launch or receive the OTA update notification early for an existing device, you just volunteered for field-testing. If you want to skip the beta phase, wait a month or two before buying/updating.

Waiting a few weeks might have avoided the sub par reviews, or at least you wouldn't be doing an OTA gpu driver update DURING someone's review of the "beta" products. They essentially ended up with a ton of PREVIEWS acting as REVIEWS (as everyone had beta something in their hands). Just 3 weeks more would have made that stuff mostly a non issue. We aren't talking running other people's software etc, just the main stuff that gets tested at EVERY website (IE, benchmarks), and simple crap like battery perf sucking before the driver update etc. You should wait until your shipping an actual REVIEW RETAIL product, rather than getting bashed to heck for "well hopefully it will be fixed before retail".

IE:
http://techreport.com/news/27318/nexus-9-review-roundup-swing-and-a-miss
Review roundup: Techreports take - SWING AND A MISS

3 weeks more might have been
"Swing and a double, but not quite a homerun"...ROFL. Half the reviews are previews getting updates during review etc. It would seem Lenovo just did the same thing with Yoga3 pro, making everyone wonder if the chip sucks, or their software etc. Polish your device/software a bit more before shipping beta stuff people or suffer the sales consequences of some people just thinking "ewe, they'll never fix it". Which often times, is actually true. Due to reviews, I would not buy nexus 9 (and I like NV stuff)...LOL.

 

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Waiting a few weeks might have avoided the sub par reviews, or at least you wouldn't be doing an OTA gpu driver update DURING someone's review of the "beta" products.

Google has a long history of shipping unfinished products... the whole Nexus thing started as a development platform and practically every launch has been followed by a few weeks if not months of people complaining about stuff.

Graphics issues aside, the N9 also came under fire multiple times for being overpriced for what it does, having a loosely fitted back cover, light bleed of various severity depending on the review, various performance and responsiveness issues some believe might be due to only having a dual-core CPU and possibly combined with power management glitches, the tablet becoming surprisingly hot even during lightweight use, part of which being blamed on an IRQ bug with the WiFi chipset and I bet I am missing a few.

When the N7-2013 and N5 launched, Google's N7 and N5 forums got almost instantaneously flooded with people complaining about the handful of common issues with them but with the N9, Google's N9 forum still feels like a ghost town a whole week after launch. Are N9 sales so bad there is almost nobody with one to complain about?

I know I was one of those people who were planning to buy whatever tablet Google released next until I saw the so-so specs (compared to the Shield Tab) and $400 price tag.

 

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Received mine a few days ago. Running like a champ, no quality-control issues, excellent. Really happy with it. Maybe people don't have issues to complain about.

 

[somebodyspecial]

They are both use LPDDR3 running at 924 MHz, the Tegra K1-64 is dual channel vs single channel on Tegra K1 – 32 bit (also the one on Shield Tablet).

No, both chips have the same 64bits DRAM interface and the two variants are even pin-compatible so OEMs can reuse exactly the same platform design for both models with nothing more than a firmware image change if they want to.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7622/nvidia-tegra-k1/2

But they are at least dual channel (2x32bit, where T4 also had this, but T4i had single 32bit channel), which was a real problem on previous versions (pre-t4).