HTC Nexus 9 offers serious graphic chipset power after two benchmarking tools unveiled that NVIDIA Tegra K1 tops the Adreno 420 and Mali T-760. Performance tests conducted by GFXBench and Futuremark Ice Storm Unlimited concentrated on obvious categories such as screen resolution and refresh rate.

NVIDIA Tegra K1 Beats Adreno 420 And Mali T-760 On GPU Performance

Android Authority tested the NVIDIA Tegra K1 graphics chipset found on HTC Nexus 9 on two performance tests via GFXBench and Futuremark. Both tests revealed NVIDIA Tegra k1 performs better compared to Qualcomm's Adreno 420 and Mali T-760. Here is the result on GFXBench T-Rex FPS 1,080p offscreen:

Graphics Chipset

Score (Higher is better)

Tegra K1

58.3

GX6450

43.9

Adreno 420

41.75

Mali T-760

32.25

Adreno 330

28.5

Mali T-628

22.65

Tegra 4

22.3

On Futuremark's Ice Storm Unlimited test, NVIDIA Tegra K1 scored 28,519 followed by Adreno 420 with 21,326. Mali T-760 is at the third spot with a score of 20,324 followed by Adreno 330 and GX6450 with 19,509 and 17,840, respectively. Tegra 4 scored 16,356 while Mali T-628 at the bottom slot with 13,571.

Still, Adreno 420 benchmark results demonstrated Qualcomm's improvements on its previous model Adreno 330. The same goes for Mali T-760 performing better than Mali T-628. Adreno 420 is the GPU found on Motorola Nexus 6 while Mali T-760 Is used on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

NVIDIA Tegra K1 Overall Comparison To Adreno 420 And Mali T-760

NVIDIA Tegra K1 features Kepler GPU architecture that put the system-on-chip at the top place among other GPU models. However, the benchmarking test results did not include the necessary information related to energy efficiency and heating that are important facts among graphics processing units.

Android Authority noted both Qualcomm Snapdragon and Samsung Exynos chipsets are more suitable on smartphones or phablets due to smaller battery packs. Meanwhile, the site adds NVIDIA Tegra K1 is more designed on bigger battery packs usually found on tablets.

Qualcomm is planning to release the upcoming 64-bit processors next year under the model names Snapdragon 810 and 808. These new processors will have eight cores and expected to be equipped by next generation flagship Android devices.