Category: Nvidia

Nvidia Posts Record Revenue In Q3, Shows Trend Away From Traditional PCs

Nvidia posted record Q3 results today on strong sales of its Tegra chips. The company earned $1.2 billion in revenue, up nearly 13% from the same quarter a year ago. Net income rose to $209 million, up 75% on the quarter and 17% from a year ago.

Not only is the company’s Kepler GPUs doing well in desktop and notebook computers, but company CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said that a third of revenue is attributable to “non-PC” chips such as the Tegra 3.

Tegra has had a big year in 2012. Despite a rough start with the questionable performance of the Tegra 2, the company managed to be the major provider for most Android tablets with its latest quad-core chip, the Tegra 3. It powers phones such as the international HTC One X, One X+, the Nexus 7 and, most recently, the Surface RT tablet.

The company is expected to come out with its Cortex A15-based Wayne chips sometime between Q1 and Q3 2013, which will bring true competitiveness with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 Pro chips and Samsung’s Exynos 5 line, which has already hit the market in the Nexus 10.

If you remember back to the pre-Nexus 7 days, Nvidia talked about bringing the prices of tablets down to the $199 mark; in doing so, they’ve managed to corner the chip market for slates. Despite these lower prices, the company’s gross margin was 52.9% for the quarter, and things are only looking stronger for Nvidia going forward.

November 10, 2012
Still wishing for Tegra 3 ? Tegra 4 coming Q1 2013

While some are still waiting for their fix of quad core goodness of Tegra 3, it seems that the hardware is already old news. Reportedly leaked Tegra 4 details and the NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang saying that “A new Tegra every year” means that 2013 will see face of a newer more powerful Tegra Chipset. The new chipsets will be major designed for 10 inch tablets. The Tegra 4 will come in four variants, three with a quad-core ARM Cortex A15 configuration, with clock speeds from 1.2 to 2.0GHz.

The Fourth one seems to be a budget SP3X variant based on A9, designed for 7inch tabs, it will also add high speed LTE.

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April 9, 2012
The New iPad goes through Benchmarks, iPad 3 vs iPad 2 vs Transformer Prime vs Galaxy Tab 10.1

During the launch of Apple’s third-gen iPad, the company made huge claims about the performance of the new A5x chip, claiming that the A5X processor with quad-core graphics provided up to 4x the graphics performance of NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 chip and 2x the graphics performance of the iPad 2?s A5 chip.

Benchmark data shows the iPad 2?s A5 chip bettering both the A5X and Tegra 3 with the A5X’s improved graphics being used mostly to power the new iPad’s high-resolution Retina display of 3.1 million pixels.

However when the Screen is in off mode and benchmarks are run, the results of the A5x significantly prove to outperform all remaining devices.

For CPU Tegra 3-powered ASUS Transformer Prime and Galaxy Tab 10.1 scored higher in GeekBench than both the iPads:

Tegra 3?s quad-core configuration blazes past the dual-core A5X, garnering GeekBench scores of 1540 and 750, respectively. Interestingly, the A5X’s average score fell a few points short of the iPad 2?s standard A5 chip, 753. Both the A5X and the A5 also fell shy of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?s Tegra 2, which received an overall score 905. The gains made by the Tegra 3 are easily chalked up to its two extra cores, but it is also boasts the highest clocking speed of the group at 1.6GHz, compared to the 1GHz clock of the A5X, A5 and Tegra 2.

– IGN

For graphics tests with GLBenchmark, iPad 2 scored higher than the third-gen iPad in both tests.

For the Egypt test, the iPad 2 (1024×768) produced 6,709 frames at a framerate of 59 frames-per-second, while the new iPad (2048×1536) ran 5,974 frames at 53 FPS and the Transformer Prime (1280×800) generated 5,955 at a rate of 52 FPS. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 (1280×800), on the other hand, produced only 2,465 frames at a surprisingly low 21 FPS.

-IGN

The results of the off-screen tests show the A5X producing 15,412 frames at a rate of 138 FPS compared to the iPad 2 that has 10,143 frames at 90 FPS.

April 1, 2012
Tegra 3 Tablets in the US $ 199 Price Range Coming in Summer : Nvidia CEO

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has said that more than 3 tablets for a price of US $ 199 ( INR 10,000 approx) are set to launch by Summer 2012.

By removing things like expensive memory, a $199 tablet is quite feasible

-NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang

The Company’s CEO is also disappointed with the development of Android and the pace at which it developed.

For many people, though, work is still the primary reason to have a computer. They want Windows to work well, they want Outlook to work well. A tablet running Windows 8 with Tegra could be very nice.”

-NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang

March 30, 2012