Tegra X1 vs Tegra 4

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureVLIW Vec4 (2010−2013)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameTegra 4GM20B
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 August 2013 (11 years ago)no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data256
Core clock speed672 MHz1000 MHz
Number of transistors11 million2,000 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm20 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate2.68816.00
Floating-point processing powerno data0.512 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs416

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceIGPIGP
Widthno dataIGP

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeSystem SharedSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amountSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory bus widthSystem SharedSystem Shared
Memory clock speedSystem SharedSystem Shared
Shared memory+no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXN/A12 (12_1)
OpenGLES 3.04.6
OpenCLN/Ano data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 20 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 15 Watt

Tegra X1 has a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Tegra 4 and Tegra X1. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Tegra 4 is a notebook card while Tegra X1 is a desktop one.


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