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[igor_kavinski]

NVIDIA's Fabled ARM CPU Appears On Geekbench With Less Than Stellar Performance

+Back in 2023, we reported on a story that NVIDIA was developing its own ARM-based chips for PCs, and that it planned on debuting said chips sometime this year. It looks like the GPU brand is keeping to its promise, with said chip’s performance, or at least a variant of it, briefly appearing on […]

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The score is exactly what I would expect from a Mediatek chip.

 

[eek2121]

Not great. Not terrible.

 

[gdansk]

That's pretty low. Even if all Cortex-A series cores. Are there any rumors about the configuration?

 

[LightningZ71]

That single core is Dimensity 8100/8300 range (A78-A715 around 3Ghz).
That multicore is Dimensity 7050-7200 pro range, (2 X A78 or 2 X A715 + 6 X A55/A510)

With the reported metadata showing a quad of A725, there's obviously artificial limits on whatever system this was as that core at those speeds should be capable of more...

 

[DZero]

Is in house ARM chip or stock Cortex Chips?

 

[jdubs03]

That single core is Dimensity 8100/8300 range (A78-A715 around 3Ghz).
That multicore is Dimensity 7050-7200 pro range, (2 X A78 or 2 X A715 + 6 X A55/A510)

With the reported metadata showing a quad of A725, there's obviously artificial limits on whatever system this was as that core at those speeds should be capable of more...

So are we saying that they’re not using any X925s?

If not, what target market are we even looking at here. They need at least Dimensity 9400+ performance to be worthwhile.

 

[LightningZ71]

I don't know what, if any, separate prime core(s) they will have. All we know is that someone caught the metadata and it reported 4x725. With the test reporting two clusters of 2 processors, at least 2 of them are lower performance. I still think this is a test platform of some sort that isn't operating at full spec.

For performance, note that Nintendo expects to be competitive with 4xA78C cores for the Switch 2(wikipedia). The Shield still does surprisingly well with 4 x A55.

For longevity and absolute performance reasons, I hope that they have at least 2 cores at Max spec. A pair of A725 with max frequency and cache config with at least 6 mid-performance cores to handle support threads would be just fine for most anything you're going to throw at it.

 

[Doug S]

Not great. Not terrible.

No, that's terrible.

 

[mikegg]

The score is exactly what I would expect from a Mediatek chip.

That's not what I expected.

I expected something much faster than the 9400, which is much faster than what you posted.

 

[Nothingness]

That's not what I expected.

I expected something much faster than the 9400, which is much faster than what you posted.

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The picture posted shows an ID of 0xD87 which is 3463. This is indeed Cortex-A725: https://developer.arm.com/documenta...-registers-summary/MIDR-EL1--Main-ID-Register

So this should be compared to something like this: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/10880882
The result is for a 3 GHz CPU, so I guess the NVIDIA result is for a 2 GHz CPU.