Discussion Nvidia N1X ES Geekbench score surfaces

[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.

 

[igor_kavinski]

NVIDIA N1x vs HP HP Z2 Mini G1a Workstation Desktop PC - Geekbench

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It's a Strix Halo competitor with 128GB RAM but it isn't able to convincingly beat Ryzen 380's GPU, let alone 395's.

 

[Tigerick]

NVIDIA N1x vs HP HP Z2 Mini G1a Workstation Desktop PC - Geekbench

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It's a Strix Halo competitor with 128GB RAM but it isn't able to convincingly beat Ryzen 380's GPU, let alone 395's.

Finally running Windows 11 Insider Preview. Too early to tell though...

At least confirmed to have 48 SM..

 

[igor_kavinski]

I find this SOOOOO funny!

https://www.reddit.com/r/intelstock/comments/1mak36j/intel_products_deep_dive_13_panther_lake_stronger

Nvidias N1X will steal the show while being sheeet​

One of the major concerns the whole industry faced was Nvidia's known aspirations to enter the mobile market. Now we can all take a deep breath (yes, also you, AMD and Qualcomm investors out there) that this product is by no means anything special. Yes, for sure, this product will get the most headlines and will be totally overhyped, simply because it's Nvidia and Jensen. I was extremely scared once even Michelle Holthaus confirmed a new entry into the market (Nvidia) that we could be dealing with a product that will shatter everything Intel can offer. There I witnessed my own fall for the absolute marketing and Wall Street dominance Nvidia has. We just presume everything they release is made out of diamonds and better than everything else. This CPU shows... let's say... that they have become a bit fat and lazy. Let's explain why this product is not important to us:

N1X is a mobile CPU with 10P+10E ARM Cortex Cores that will have the RTX 5070 as an iGPU in it. It is in fact a variant of the GB10 Superchip and it will release in 2026. There are multiple rumors circulating for months that Nvidia has some sort of technical issues with N1X, and the launch is getting delayed repeatedly. One very important factor everyone needs to take into account is that the N1X will be a premium chip that will be priced very high. This is not a product for the mass market, but let's see how our best Panther Lake could perform against it.

SKU	Single Geekbench	Multi Geekbench	Single CinebenchR24	Multi CinebenchR24	OpenCL Score for Xe Graphics
N1X 10+10+6144CUDA	3'090	18'800	unkown	unkown	46'300
PTL-H 4+8+4+12Xe	3'080	17'440	143	995	46'950

PL2 (don't confuse it with PL1 please; this is not the base power) of Panther Lake is 64W; this thing will have 125W. So... I think the point comes across. It will be an inefficient, highly expensive piece of Jensen's greed. Sure, it will be slightly more performant, but it will also be priced much higher while consuming 60-100% more power.