NVIDIA Tegra 3 Super Chip Review and Specifications
NVIDIA Tegra 3 Super Chip Review and Specifications
NVIDIA® TEGRA® MOBILE PROCESSORS
Take your mobile performance farther with NVIDIA Tegra processors in all your mobile devices. Extreme multitasking. Ultra-smooth web browsing that’s up to twice as fast as other processors. Console-quality gaming. And the best battery-saving technology you’ll find anywhere. Even HD video capabilities for brilliant graphics on the go.
Key Innovations
- Quad-Core with a 5th Battery-Saver Core** - NVIDIA's innovative Variable SMP architecture (PDF 919 KB) enables four performance cores to be used for max burst, when needed, with each core independently and automatically enabled and disabled based on workload. The single battery-saver core (or companion core) handles low-power tasks like active standby, music, and video, and is transparent to the OS and applications.
- NVIDIA Direct Touch* - This is a patent-pending architecture that improves touch responsiveness and reduces power consumption by offloading a portion of the touch processing onto the Tegra 3 processor.
- 3D Stereo Gaming* - This capability leverages the award-winning NVIDIA 3D Vision® technology to automatically, and in real-time, convert OpenGL based games and apps into Stereo 3D.
- NVIDIA PRISM Display Technology* - PRISM (or Pixel Rendering Intensity and Saturation Management) reduces a mobile device’s backlight power while simultaneously enhancing the pixel color to deliver the same visual quality with substantially extended battery life.
* Not available on all devices
** Windows RT support still under development
** Windows RT support still under development
Tegra 3 Specifications
| Tegra 3 on Android | Tegra 3 on Windows 8 | |
| Processor | ||
| CPU | Quad-core, with 5th battery-saver core | Quad-core |
| Max Frequency | Up to 1.7 GHz single core /1.6 GHz quad-core | Up to single core 1.4 GHz /quad-core 1.3 |
| L2 Cache | 1 MB | 1 MB |
| L1 Cache (I/D) | (32KB / 32KB) per core | (32KB / 32KB) per core |
| Memory | ||
| Frequency | DDR3-L 1500 LPDDR2-1066 |
DDR3-L 1500 LPDDR2-1066 |
| Memory Size | Up to 2 GB | Up to 2 GB |
| GPU | ||
| Architecture | ULP GeForce | ULP NVIDIA |
| 3D Performance Relative to Tegra 2* | Up to 3x | n/a |
| Cores | 12 | 12 |
| 3D Stereo | Yes | n/a |
| Full Programmability | Yes | Yes |
| OpenGL ES Version | 2.0 | n/a |
| OpenVG | 1.1 | n/a |
| EGL | 1.4 | n/a |
| Video (1080p) | ||
| Decode | H.264 (HP @ 40Mbps) VC-1 AP MPEG-2 MPEG-4 DivX 4/5 XviD HT H.263 Theora VP8 WMV Sorenson Spark Real Video VP6 |
H.264 (HP @ 40 Mbps) VC-1 MPEG-2 MPEG-4 DivX 4/5 XviD HT H.263 VP8 WMV Real Video VP6 |
| Encode | H.264 MPEG-4 H.263 VP8 |
H.264 MPEG-4 H.263 VP8 |
| Video Teleconference (VTC) | H.264 MPEG-4 H.263 VP8 |
H.264 MPEG-4 H.263 VP8 |
| Audio | ||
| Decode | AAC-LC AAC+ eAAC+ MP3 MP3 VBR WAV/PCM AMR-NB AMR-WB BSAC MPEG-2 Audio Vorbis WMA 9 WMA Lossless WMA Pro G.729a * G.711 * QCELP * EVRC * * Through Third Party |
AAC-LC AAC+ eAAC+ MP3 MP3 VBR WAV/PCM AMR-NB AMR-WB BSAC MPEG-2 Audio Vorbis WMA 9 WMA Lossless WMA Pro G.729a * G.711 * QCELP * EVRC * * Through Third Party |
| Encode | AAC LC AAC+ eAAC+ PCM/WAV AMR-NB AMR-WB |
AAC LC AAC+ eAAC+ PCM/WAV AMR-NB AMR-WB |
| Imaging | ||
| Primary Camera | 32 MP | 32 MP (Max) |
| Secondary Camera | 5 MP | 5 MP (Max) |
| Mpixel/s | 300 | 300 |
| Digital Zoom | Up to 16x | Up to 16x |
| JPEG Decoding/Encoding | 80 MP/Sec | 80 MP/Sec |
| Still Image Stabilization | Yes | Yes |
| Video Stabilization | Yes | Yes |
| Features | Auto Exposure Auto White Balance Auto Focus Lens Shading 9th Order De-Mosaic Sharpening Programmable De-Noise |
Auto Exposure Auto White Balance Auto Focus Lens Shading 9th Order De-Mosaic Sharpening Programmable De-Noise |
| MIPI CSI | Yes | Yes |
| Display | ||
| Display Controllers | 2 Simultaneous | 2 Simultaneous |
| HDMI | (1920x1080) | (1920x1080) |
| LCD | 2048x1536 | 2048x1536 |
| CRT | 1920x1200 | 1920x1200 |
| MIPI DSI | Yes | Yes |
| Package | ||
| Package | 14x14 BGA 24.5x24.5 BGA |
14x14 BGA 24.5x24.5 BGA |
| Process | 40 nm | 40 nm |
* Measured with GLBenchmark 2.0 Egypt
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