NVIDIA's Tegra X1 Delivers Stunning Performance On Ubuntu Linux

The Tegra K1 has been one of my favorite ARM SoCs given its strong performance, but now I'm super excited about the Tegra X1... I just hope it will appear in more devices in the months ahead and ideally the Jetson development board upgrade. I can't wait to get my hands on a Tegra X1 outside of the SHIELD Android TV for being able to run some power consumption tests and look at the GM20B Maxwell graphics performance.

It seems there's much work to still be done with OpenSSL for ARMv8 / the Tegra X1. Upgrading to the very latest GCC or LLVM/Clang compiler may help too and also better the performance in the other benchmarks, thanks to the continued 64-bit ARM improvements going into these open-source compilers.

These are the benchmarks I've been able to run thus far with remote access to Ubuntu on the SHIELD Android TV. Overall the performance is very compelling for the Tegra X1 SoC and I can't wait to deliver some performance-per-Watt figures, port more tests to 64-bit ARM, and take a look at the graphics performance once having physical access to an X1 board/system.

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Those wanting to see how your own x86/ARM Linux systems compare to the X1 results shown in this article, simply install the Phoronix Test Suite and then run phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1507285-BE-POWERLOW159 for the earlier results or phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1507289-BE-TEGRAX15998 for the large comparison tests. If you appreciate all of the Linux hardware testing done at Phoronix over the past eleven years, please consider helping to support the site by making a tip or subscribing to our ad-free, single-page-article site.