Limitations of the hardware/Tegra 3?

[Kevin OQuinn]

Wondering what you guys see on a daily basis that limits what you can do on your Nexus 7. Is performance an issue? Software limitation? Are there things you would like to see? I know there's Tegrazone, and that has a ton of great games, but what other kinds of apps would you like to see take advantage of the hardware the way those do? Maybe a photo editing app?

nVidia is pretty big on GPGPU computing, which is one reason why Tegrazone stuff runs so well, and I think this can be used for things other than games.

Throw any ideas you have out there. Any and all realistic ideas will get forwarded to nVidia for consideration. That's right, they are looking for direct feedback from the people that matter most, those that use them!

 

[Irvgotti]

I love my n7. Always runs smooth. But more sports game. I like zombie stuff. But they should come up with their own game like modern combat. Just more options to the games. Other than games I don't know what app would push the teg3 to its limits.

 

[tflash]

This is the feature I want that looks like it could be done on the N7.

Nvidia can provide the possibility in the Tegra3 (have they already?), but it's up to Asus to allow the hardware to support it, and up to Google to allow the software to support it.


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Please suggest this to anyone you can.
I want this.
I want it now.

 

[rootbrain]

All processors have limitations. I think the main "limitation" for this processor (if you want to call it that) on the N7 would be the 1GB of "true" memory. If it had 2 or 4, the tegra3 on N7 could handle just about anything thrown at it for a tablet device. And I'd be in 7th heaven.

But I think it wouldn't be too hard to make the N7 crawl along by opening 5 or more processor intensive apps running foreground and background, just because of the memory management it would have to handle.

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

All processors have limitations. I think the main "limitation" for this processor (if you want to call it that) on the N7 would be the 1GB of "true" memory. If it had 2 or 4, the tegra3 on N7 could handle just about anything thrown at it for a tablet device. And I'd be in 7th heaven.

But I think it wouldn't be too hard to make the N7 crawl along by opening 5 or more processor intensive apps running foreground and background, just because of the memory management it would have to handle.

I think you'd still be limited by the bus speed. Multi-tasking while downloading large apps or other files is the main limitation I see personally. This is a limitation of NAND, though, and you brought up RAM, so....

Amount of RAM won't help juggle a ton of apps. If anything I think it would make it more difficult since there would be more memory to manage. 2gb would be nice just to not have apps dumped from memory, but cost probably prevents that I some devices.

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[crackberrytraitor]

I think you'd still be limited by the bus speed. Multi-tasking while downloading large apps or other files is the main limitation I see personally. This is a limitation of NAND, though, and you brought up RAM, so....

Amount of RAM won't help juggle a ton of apps. If anything I think it would make it more difficult since there would be more memory to manage. 2gb would be nice just to not have apps dumped from memory, but cost probably prevents that I some devices.

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The Tegra 3 could multitask just fine if Android was designed for true PC style multitasking.

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[blitzen89]

I feel like I do get lag when using Office suites on the N7... especially on spreadsheets with lots of cell references and formulas, as well as finnicky ppt playback... could just be the app's failing to utilize the hardware, but I was thought for sure the N7 would be better at this