| torok said:
They are pretty close to PS360 right now, I think one gen behind is likely. But power consumption is really the key. Tegra K1 would be 20w? God, and NVidia itself said that 10w woud be the maximum for a tablet (phones at 5w). Anyway, Tegra SoCs are already a failure. Tegra 2 was used everywhere, but Tegra 3 simply wasn't that popular because of the lack of 4G support while Qualcomm got all the market with their Snapdragon with 4G (and the dual-core Snapdragons actually outperformed the quad-core Tegra 3). Tegra 3 only wasn't a total failure because they got in on the Nexus 7 and that sold a good 10M units. But their lack of competency was blatant when Google ditched then in the Nexus 7 2013 because they weren't capable of delivering a 4G Tegra and Google simply couldn't tolerate that (even Nexus 7 2012 was criticized by it's lack of 4G, but that was new at that time. A 2013 3G only tablet would be panned). Tegra 4? Nobody cared. They had to release a Tegra 4i with 4G, but it was to late. And in the end, Tegra K1 still underdelivers in that aspect. Qualcomm is running circles around NVidia withotu even putting an effort. |
That's exactly why I don't like tegra SoC's. Nvidia keeps lying about their power draw. SMDH
