Nvidia Tegra 2 Gets Benchmarked
The Nvidia Tegra 2 chipset has been benchmarked. It’s the same chip that’s set to make appearances in a variety of tablets, such as the Toshiba Folio. More important than that is the sheer power this chipset straddles. We’re talking over twice as fast as your standard Android device, such as a Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon-powered Google Nexus One phone. It does this while on Android 2.1 (without the Cortex enhancements) versus devices with Android 2.2. Quite frankly, it’s something quite like a spectacle. Too bad that when it does do its rounds in the tablets it powers, we’ll all know they aren’t cheap and that supreme performance demands a supreme price. Have a look at the chart below to get a good gauge on performance.
The yellow bar represents the Toshiba Ac100 powered by Tegra 2.
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[...] a consumer can actually get. And, quite frankly, we support this. The Tegra 2, as you can glean by looking at the benchmarks here, is simply a powerhouse of a chipset offering snappy, responsive performance that downright [...]
[...] The above pictured tablet is the LuvPad AD100 – it’s basically the same kind of Tegra 2 tablet we’ve been seeing of late. It’s got a 10.1-inch 1024×600 screen, runs Android 2.2 and is powered by the Nvidia Tegra 2 chip, not to mention the 512MB DDR2 RAM, 8GB internal memory with WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. This LuvPad is set to debut in Japan for around JPY48,250. This is basically the same kind of tablet as the Hanspree and Interpad Tegra 2 tablets, which are promising to be very powerful as indicated by Tegra 2 benchmarks. [...]