Android By Matthew Humphries Jan. 13, 2014 9:30 am
As CES kicked off last week Nvidia revealed a surprising new mobile processor in the form of the Tegra K1. This chip looks to be a big deal in terms of pure performance, sporting a 2.5GHz clock speed, quad cores, and 192 CUDA cores, it should be able to handle anything you throw at a mobile device using it.
Nvidia claims that the Tegra K1 offers performance beyond that of a PS3 and Xbox 360, but the new chip hasn’t shipped inside a product yet so it’s hard to get any real-world results to back that up. However, Lenovo turned up at CES with a new 4K ThinkVision 28 display/PC all-in-one. Tom’s Hardware discovered the ThinkVision 28 uses a Tegra K1 and managed to do some initial benchmarking on the chip. What they discovered was some serious performance and lots of potential.
While the K1 is meant to run at between 2.3GHz and 2.5GHz, the version used in the ThinkVision is apparently underclocked to 2GHz. Even so, it managed to outperform the Nexus 5 (Snapdragon 800), Note 7 (Tegra 4), and iPhone 5S (A7) on benchmarks including 3DMark, GFXBench, and AnTuTu.
As with all new chips, you’d expect the performance to be higher than what is currently available on the market. But the performance advantage is potentially huge. Remember, the chip tested is underclocked to by around 15 percent, and yet the performance seen is 10-15 percent higher than the 3 chips mentioned earlier dependent on the test run.
You can view the full results of the tests over at Tom’s Hardware. Further investigation is obviously required to gauge the true performance potential of the K1, but Lenovo selecting it to power a 28-inch 4K unit bodes well for its use in similar high-resolution devices and tablets in general. Will the K1 be used in smartphones? We’re not convinced it will be.
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Nvidia claims that the Tegra K1 offers performance beyond that of a PS3 and Xbox 360, but the new chip hasn’t shipped inside a product yet so it’s hard to get any real-world results to back that up. However, Lenovo turned up at CES with a new 4K ThinkVision 28 display/PC all-in-one. Tom’s Hardware discovered the ThinkVision 28 uses a Tegra K1 and managed to do some initial benchmarking on the chip. What they discovered was some serious performance and lots of potential.
While the K1 is meant to run at between 2.3GHz and 2.5GHz, the version used in the ThinkVision is apparently underclocked to 2GHz. Even so, it managed to outperform the Nexus 5 (Snapdragon 800), Note 7 (Tegra 4), and iPhone 5S (A7) on benchmarks including 3DMark, GFXBench, and AnTuTu.
As with all new chips, you’d expect the performance to be higher than what is currently available on the market. But the performance advantage is potentially huge. Remember, the chip tested is underclocked to by around 15 percent, and yet the performance seen is 10-15 percent higher than the 3 chips mentioned earlier dependent on the test run.
You can view the full results of the tests over at Tom’s Hardware. Further investigation is obviously required to gauge the true performance potential of the K1, but Lenovo selecting it to power a 28-inch 4K unit bodes well for its use in similar high-resolution devices and tablets in general. Will the K1 be used in smartphones? We’re not convinced it will be.
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