The Tegra 3 has taken a bit of a hit in recent days as it was negatively compared to the upcoming dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chipset, and now it’s been paired up with Texas Instrument’s OMAP 5 SoC, to no less of a proverbial slaughter.
OMAP 5 is based on Cortex’s new A15 reference design, and as much there are many, many improvements in both speed and power efficiency over previous Cortex A9 chips, on which Tegra 3 is based. According to the video, which shows off a very intensive benchmark suite called EEMBC BrowsingBenc, the OMAP 5 finished it in 95 seconds compared to the Tegra 3’s 201 seconds. To add salt to the wound, the OMAP was running both cores at a meagre 800Mhz, compared to the full 1.3Ghz on the quad-core chip. Cortex A15 chips are expected to double the performance of existing A9 chips at almost half the speed. TI’s design also incorporates dual GPUs for added gaming performance and video decoding speeds.
The flipside, however, is that Tegra 3 is already in the market, and will be available in phones starting next month. TI’s OMAP 5 may not be ready for prime time until early 2013, and lots can change in the industry between now and then (including Nvidia coming out with a newer, faster chipset to match). What this does show off, though, is how far ARM processing has come, and will continue to go, in the next year.
Source: Android Community
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