14 DAY TRIAL // Ever since Google made Tegra 2 the reference platform for Honeycomb-based tablets, its performance has been the source of great scrutiny, so a hardware review website set on to uncover its GPU capabilities when compared to that of Samsung's Hummingbird SoC, benchmarks showing Nvidia's solution to be faster across the board in graphics applications.
Getting their hands on a Viewsonic G Tablet, hardware review site Anandtech went on to compare the Tegra 2 packing slate with Samsung's Galaxy Tab, that is build using the Korean's company Hummingbird SoC.
Although not so extensive as some of their other articles, this is centered around three benchmark scores obtained in Quake III Arena, GLBenchmark 2.0 Pro and GLBenchmark 2.0 Egypt, all the tests being run 1024x600, the native resolution of both tablets.
Moving right on to the results, Tegra 2 manages to win in all these applications, the GLBenchmark 2.0 Pro delivering the highest performance difference between the two platforms, Nvidia's solution gaining an impressive 30% lead over the Hummingbird.
In Quake III, however, things take a slightly less dramatic take, as the Tegra 2 has a slight 10% lead over the SGX 540, the more-demanding GLBenchmark 2.0 Egypt test once again increasing Nvidia's lead, this time to “just” 20.4%.
As you can certainly see, these results make Tegra 2 the better Android gaming platform of the two, although its integrated graphics don't manage to blow Hummingbird out of the water, as Nvidia would most certainly want us to believe.
The Tegra 2 SoC that is used inside the Viewsonic G Tablet is based on a 1GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU paired with 512MB DRR and uses a special Nvidia graphics engine that is said to double the performance of the Tegra 600 series.
On the other side, the Samsung Galaxy Tab uses a 1 GHz ARM Cortex A8 single-core CPU paired together with a PowerVR SGX 540 graphics chip and 512 MB of RAM memory.
