Nvidia Responds to Kindle Fire HD Performance Claims

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[citation][nom]esrever[/nom]Tegra 3 is just a piece of overhyped SH*T. 4 cores and no effective memory bandwidth and having a crappy gpu core on top of it.[/citation]The only good things about the Tegra 3 are that it is cheap to make (very small), and Nvidia provides lots of developer support (read: Nvidia throws cash at developers). The chip itself was underwhelming, mostly due to the issues you just highlighted. They'd have been better off with two faster cores, plus they could have used the extra die space on a fatter GPU and a better memory controller.[citation][nom]leeashton[/nom]Its already been benchmarked that the new TI OMAP Dual core is faster than the tegra 3 and the Exynos Processor driving the SGS3 infact substantially faster[/citation]Yeah, and TI's next-generation chips will likely be using A15 and Rogue (PowerVR series 6). Both of which will provide a significant leap over equivalent A9 and Series 5 chips they're using today, especially if they shrink the die at the same time.

 

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[citation][nom]Razor512[/nom]Also very few people actually game on their devices so the chances to use all cores at the same time are very low.The kindle fire HD will still not be very popular because it is running a crippled version of android that comes with malware preinstalled (is ti to much to ask for to have a device not spam you with ads)[/citation]First of all, because the GPU in the Tegra 3 is slower, most games will STILL run better on the 4470 even if the game is coded to use all four cores. Second, the Kindle Fire HD doesn't "spam you with ads". Their ad-supported model is very unobtrusive. It displays an ad on the lock screen. If it makes the device less expensive, I'm all for lock screen ads that don't actually cost me any time or impede me in any way.

 

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"You can’t measure the consumer’s overall experience with synthetic benchmarks."

Amusing, considering NVIDIA used PhysX to massively boost their 3DMark scores a while back...

 

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the tegra 3 may not have the fastest GPU but it is more than fast enough for any current game. Most android games are designed to work on a wide range of devices and thus are not designed to stress the latest and greatest GPU's

Most lag in android games are caused by the CPU. Eg for some games, even ones that are a little choppy, if you use something like chainfire too force additional AA, the game will look better but the choppiness will not increase, showing that the GPU is not the bottleneck.



when a game is multithreaded, then it runs great on the tegra 3, but when it is not, then most of the modern dual core snapdragon CPU's and some of the TI chips can easily beat the tegra 3.

 

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Nvidia has gone to lengths to make their processors as cheap as possible. This makes it popular for OEM's who want cheaper BOM, but it means the chip is less powerful than other chips.