NVIDIA Tegra X1 Performance Exceeds Intel Bay Trail SoCs, AMD AM1 APUs

An anonymous reader writes: A NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV modified to run Ubuntu Linux is providing interesting data on how NVIDIA's latest "Tegra X1" 64-bit ARM big.LITTLE SoC compares to various Intel/AMD/MIPS systems of varying form factors. Tegra X1 benchmarks on Ubuntu show strong performance with the X1 SoC in this $200 Android TV device, beating out low-power Intel Atom/Celeron Bay Trail SoCs, AMD AM1 APUs, and in some workloads is even getting close to an Intel Core i3 "Broadwell" NUC. The Tegra X1 features Maxwell "GM20B" graphics and the total power consumption is less than 10 Watts.

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Re:nice, but they remove your games if you update

[Junta]

The more troubling question is why an application should feel forced to do anything in the face of a platform upgrade in order to work at all. A modern Windows desktop can still run 10 year old software without a hiccup. Going back 20 years you start needing something like dosbox to use a lot of the applications, though still doable. I haven't tried firing it up in a while, but last time I tried the commercial package of quake 3 under linux, it still worked on a modern distribution. Same for linux neverwinter nights. As an application maintainer for some linux stuff, the only things that I can recall forcing my hand to change something for things to work were systemd and python changes.

Android (and to a significant, but somewhat lesser extent Apple) are not doing that good with respect to application and/or hardware compatibility into the past. It's a tiring situation for developers to have to follow an upgrade treadmill in order to cater to new system sales, just to keep the current applications workable as-is.