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Nvidia Tegra X1

NVIDIA X1

The NVIDIA Tegra X1 (Tegra 6, Codename Erista) is a 64-Bit high performance ARM based SoC (System on a Chip) for (mainly Android based) tablets and embedded systems (like cars). It contains four ARM Cortex A57 and four ARM Cortex A53 cores in the processor part. As a graphics card, Nvidia integrated a Maxwell based GPU with 256 CUDA cores (see for more details and benchmarks). The integrated memory controller supports LPDDR3 and LPDDR4 with a maximum bandwidth of 25.6 GB/s (2x 32 Bit LPDDR4-3200). The Tegra X1 is the successor to the exactly one year earlier announced Tegra K1 SoC.

Similar to the Symsung Exynos 5433, the Tegra X1 uses a big.LITTLE combination of four power saving and small Cortex-A53 cores and four powerful Cortex-A57 cores. Nvidia however uses an own cluster migration solution instead of the ARM Global Task Scheduling (GTS) and therefore only one of the two quad-core clusters is active at a time.

The performance of the processor cores should be in the high-end segment of ARM based SoCs. Nvidia states that the X1 offers a twice as high energy efficiency compared to the Exynos 5433 (same ARM cores at 1.9 GHz manufactured in 20nm).

Due to the big Maxwell graphics card the SoC is mainly aimed at tablets with good cooling solutions and wont be commonly seen in smartphones. The Tegra X1 is produced at TSMC in 20nm.

SeriesNVIDIA Tegra
CodenameErista (Cortex-A57 + A53)
Clock Rate2000 MHz
Level 1 Cache576 KB
Level 2 Cache2.5 MB
Number of Cores / Threads8 / 8
Manufacturing Technology20 nm
Features4x Cortex-A57 + 4x Cortex-A53, 2x 32 Bit LPDDR4-1600 (25.6 GB/s, max. 4 GB), Maxwell-GPU (256 Shader, OpenGL ES 3.1, OpenGL 4.5, DirectX 11.2, CUDA 6.0), Dual ISP (1.3 GP/s), H.264/H.265 4K60 Encoding/Decoding, HDMI 2.0, eMMC 5.1
GPUNVIDIA Tegra X1 Maxwell GPU ( - 1000 MHz)
64 Bit64 Bit support
ArchitectureARM
Announcement Date01/05/2015

Benchmarks

Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 3844     avg: 4689     median: 4688.5 (5%)     max: 5533 ms
AnTuTu v5 - AnTuTu v5 Total Score
min: 59811     avg: 63053     median: 63052.5 (64%)     max: 66294 Points
- Range of benchmark values for this graphics card
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card
* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance

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Other CPUs of the series Tegra

» Nvidia Tegra X1
   8x 2 GHz
» Nvidia Tegra K1 (Denver)
   2x 2.3 GHz
» Nvidia Tegra K1
   4x 2.3 GHz
» Nvidia Tegra 4
   4x 1.8 GHz
» NVIDIA Tegra 3
   4x 1.2 GHz - 1.3 GHz
» Nvidia Tegra 2 (250)
   2x 1 GHz

Surrounding CPUs

+ Mediatek MT8788
   8x 2 GHz
+ Mediatek MT8183
   8x 2 GHz
+ Samsung Exynos 7420 Octa
   8x 2.1 GHz
+ Mediatek Helio X25 MTK6797T
   10x 2.5 GHz
» Nvidia Tegra X1
   8x 2 GHz
- Apple A9
   2x 1.8 GHz
- Intel Atom x7-Z8700
   4x 1.6 GHz - 2.4 GHz
- Samsung Exynos 850
   8x - 2 GHz
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Klaus Hinum (Update: 2015-02-24)