No threads on AT's MSM8660 MDP article?

[Bateluer]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4243/...ormance-1-5-ghz-msm8660-adreno-220-benchmarks

I am disappoint.

This year at MWC Qualcomm gave us a considerable amount of hands-on time with the same MDP hardware. We did a bit of testing, and then Qualcomm did something awesome - they let us take an MDP with the MSM8660 inside home with us.

Final Words

When we first started looking at Qualcomm's Snapdragon SoCs we were impressed by their CPU performance but largely put off by the performance of the Adreno 200 GPU. The 45nm Snapdragon with the Adreno 205 GPU changed things as it roughly doubled GPU performance. The Adreno 220 brings about another doubling in GPU performance.

We'll eventually see more conservative GPU performance gains in line with Moore's Law, however for the foreseeable future these sorts of yearly generational improvements are to be expected.

Anyone else think Nvidia's Tegra 2 is a little underwhelming after seeing it compared to Qualcomm's and TI's OMAP 4 offerings? Nvidia's not out, but they'd better step it up next time around.

 

[Aikouka]

Anyone else think Nvidia's Tegra 2 is a little underwhelming after seeing it compared to Qualcomm's and TI's OMAP 4 offerings? Nvidia's not out, but they'd better step it up next time around.

I had a feeling that Tegra 2 would under perform when I saw that it did beat the current generation chips, but it didn't beat all of them by much in GPU tests.

 

[SunnyD]

No current release products based on the chip, no care.

 

[shabby]

No current release products based on the chip, no care.

What aboot the evo3d and htc pyramid, thought they'd be using this chip.

 

[dguy6789]

The only reason the Tegra 2 seems underwhelming is it hit the market literally a year after it was intended to. Nvidia seems confident that Kal El will be in phones by the end of the year. If that is the case, it will make the Omap 4 and any Snapdragon seem like a complete joke. Think Radeon 9700 vs Geforce 4, Core 2 vs Pentium 4.

 

[smartpatrol]

The one thing that really impressed me about Tegra 2 is its low power consumption. I agree the GPU performance is underwhelming though, especially coming from a company like Nvidia.

 

[SunnyD]

What aboot the evo3d and htc pyramid, thought they'd be using this chip.

Are they released yet? Can I have one in my hands in less than an hour? No.

(Though I will say I will probably have a Pyramid assuming it supports AT&T bands thanks to the upcoming buyout)

 

[Soccerman06]

Are they released yet? Can I have one in my hands in less than an hour? No.

(Though I will say I will probably have a Pyramid assuming it supports AT&T bands thanks to the upcoming buyout)

I guess I can't consider a tegra2 then since Sprint doesn't have any phones with it. And you obviously didn't read anything in the article because anyone can buy the this phone off contract for $995.

http://www.bsquare.com/snapdragon-mobile-development-platform.aspx

 

[Fire&Blood]

With the upcoming shift to 28nm for SoC's and 30nm for memory, it doesn't make sense to buy before that happens.

I was surprised to see Nvidia and TI bench and talk extensively about OMAP5 and Tegra3 even before OMAP4 and Tegra2 hit the market.

I guess in the process of trying to establish themselves as the future SoC's for Motorola, HTC and others, they "ruined" current Snapdragons and OMAP4's for me.

For the rest of 2011 it's all going to be minor adjustments, next performance leap is coming with the next gen SoC's on the 28nm fab.