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Just a little more than a month after announcing the Tegra 4 processor, Nvidia’s back with another mobile chipset, the Tegra T4i, which comes with an integrated LTE modem. It’s designed specifically for use with smartphones. Where the Tegra 4 is all about raw power for big phones and tablets, the Tegra 4i is a marvel of tiny efficient design.
The Tegra 4i packs 4 ARM Cortex-A9 CPU cores with a maximum clock speed of 2.3GHz, and 60 GPU cores. The CPU architecture is slightly older than the ARM Cortex-A15 on the Tegra 4, but Nvidia says that it worked with ARM to retool its design to make it the “highest-performance CPU core on the market”.
It’s getting to the point where you need to update your tech EVERY MONTH to keep up. Happy with all the awesomeness of this though (although will be a while before I get another new phone *sigh*)
For those that don’t do gaming on their mobile, is the CPU power advancement wasted? I’ve got a Nexus 4 and the phone flies in all areas as quickly as I could dream of. I can’t see how a faster CPU (that will bring increased cost) could improve noticeable performance. I suppose it’s possible it could bring better battery usage or bring other components onto the chip and thus reduce cost/size/complexity of the phone. We shall see, but for me it seems all a bit wasted.