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Oh god. Talk about horrible Wifi drivers."only"
Anyway it's safe to say this launch was a mess. We'll have a better picture in a few days.
Oh god. Talk about horrible Wifi drivers."only"
Here is the article I was talking about, where they talk about how maxwell's power consumption is due to extremely good voltage control and power gating.Again, you have not yet provided any evidence that this is the case. Furmark power consumption is not evidence. If you don't understand why it is not evidence, I am not sure myself or anyone else here can help you. Indeed, the only actual compute benchmarks in this thread, that I am aware of, show Maxwell to be considerably more efficient than Kepler in compute workloads, sometimes over 100%+.
The only person here I see ignoring evidence is you.
The Tegra K1 in the Nexus 9 is based on Kepler, not Maxwell.
Jesus..."only"
Not only are you not debating, you are completely ignoring. Do us a favor, don't come back with your theories until you go through the effort of trying to understand what people have been telling you.I am not debating that it's efficient IN PRACTICE, but there is nothing that is fundamentally more efficient than kepler in the architecture. It doesn't actually compute using less energy..
This is actually not really nvidia's fault. Android does this with all devices, and the faster and more power hungry the processor the worse it gets. Its a problem with the sleep states of programs, and android constantly turning wifi on and off while on standby.
I would have no problem criticizing nvidia if standby time was bad because of their processor, but it really has nothing to do with them.
I think its most likely a misbehaving app, Ive seen sone wake up 24hrs a day check the wifi for some info, then go back to sleep. So I'ld check if theres not a rogue app firstAll of my android devices, provided that they only have the default apps or no misbehaved apps,
If perceptions on Denver are a bit too negative, it's mostly because nVidia set expectations high. If I remember correctly nVidia promised that the K1 Denver would completely outpace other ARM mobile processors or something to that effect. And now by the time it's available, the iPad Air 2 has been shipping in volume for a few weeks already and the A8X looks like the overall (slightly) faster chip. Yes the A8X uses a more advanced 20 nm market, but sticking with a mature 28 nm process could have allowed nVidia with a time-to-market advantage, instead Denver K1 availability ended up being after A8X availability. Denver K1 is an impressive chip, but nVidia set the perception that it'd be a home run, which it doesn't seem to achieve.
Out of curiosity, anyone have any ballpark figure on the price of a Denver K1, in says 100K quantity ? are we talking $10 or $30 or what ?
Out of curiosity, anyone have any ballpark figure on the price of a Denver K1, in says 100K quantity ? are we talking $10 or $30 or what ?
"Android Engineering is aware of an issue affecting Nexus 5 users running Android 5.0 which causes significant 'miscellaneous' battery usage while WiFi is enabled," Google said.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer...droid-50-rollout-due-to-battery-drain-problem
How do you know it is alredy running in the 64bit mode ?? I don't see any difference.