Nvidia Tegra 4 Beats Qualcomm’s S800 in Performance

A new report from Microprocessor Report (requires subscription) says that Tegra 4 is the fastest mobile SoC right now, and it beats even Qualcomm’s fastest and highest clocked SoC, the S800.

This isn’t coming as a total surprise, because we knew from early benchmarks of the Tegra 4 reference board that it has very high performance compared to previous chips, and even to the S600, and if doing some simple math, we could calculate that S800’s speed bump from 1.7 Ghz for the S600 to 2.3 Ghz for the S800 was not going to give it enough of a performance boost to beat Tegra 4.
While it seems that the report is mostly focusing on the CPU performance, I believe this will be true when comparing the GPU performance, too. Not only did the Adreno 330 (found in S800) GPU not impress when they showed the demos at CES, while the Tegra 4 ones did impress, but from the looks of it, and from the name itself, I think we can assume that Adreno 330 is only about 50% faster compared to Adreno 320 found in the S4 Pro and the S600 SoC’s.
From the latest benchmarks on Tegra 4’s GPU we can deduce that it’s about twice as fast as the Adreno 320, which would put it above the Adreno 330