is 3dmark icestorm a good x-uarch benchmark? because if these numbers are to be believed then mobile socs are still way behind the curb...
first lets look at amds 40nm 9W c-50 apu. [ http://www.3dmark.com/is/652449 ]
the though is getting jumbled in the numbers and speculation but why hasn't nvidia - a graphics company- gotten the fact that gpu is king for mobile socs? Who needs upto 1.8GHz quad a15s in a mobile device operating with a battery[i know that the c-50 isn't a battery saver itself].
I think Nvidia should have scaled back tegra 4 to be a tri-core[sounds cooler too] 2 big cores and 1 LITTLE then focused on dumping as much gpus and memory controllers on die as possible, it would have been far more balanced[aka the apple approach and here] and probably not run as hot. /rant
first lets look at amds 40nm 9W c-50 apu. [ http://www.3dmark.com/is/652449 ]
then look at the tegra 4 [ http://community.futuremark.com/hardware/mobile/Toshiba+Excite+Pro/review ]
also check out the s4 [ http://community.futuremark.com/hardware/mobile/LG+Nexus+4/review ]
I was thinking about the tegra 4 and comparing it to amd a6-1450, a4-1200 and apples a6x. It seems for all its cpu might the tegra 4 still has crap gpu, because if the 40nm, 9W, 1GHz dual bobcat cores, hd6250 can beat it with 64bit ddr3-1066 ram, then the 3.9W a4-1200 soc with 128 gcn cores will definitely continue this trend.
the though is getting jumbled in the numbers and speculation but why hasn't nvidia - a graphics company- gotten the fact that gpu is king for mobile socs? Who needs upto 1.8GHz quad a15s in a mobile device operating with a battery[i know that the c-50 isn't a battery saver itself].
I think Nvidia should have scaled back tegra 4 to be a tri-core[sounds cooler too] 2 big cores and 1 LITTLE then focused on dumping as much gpus and memory controllers on die as possible, it would have been far more balanced[aka the apple approach and here] and probably not run as hot. /rant
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