VR-Zone has released the first benchmark results of Intel’s new Medfield-soc for tablets. The new mobile processor is, according to the Caffeinemark 3 almost a quarter faster than the Samsung Exynos chip.
A few weeks before the official launch has VR-Zone already the first benchmarks and power consumption of the new Medfield Tablet Platform, the reference platform for the tabletchip, released. The Medfield chip scores 10.500 points in Caffeinemark 3.
This is significantly higher than the current Exynos chip from Samsung, which is 8500 points. The Tegra 2 from nVidia and the Snapdragon MSM8260 Qualcomm to put in that benchmark were, respectively, about 7500, and 8000 points down. Results for the Tegra 3, which, inter alia, in the new Transformer Prime tablet from Asus, are not yet officially known.
The prototype would be idle to 2.6 W consume while watching a 720p Flash fiilmpje with a power consumption of 3.6 W most of the demands of the new tabletchip of Intel. The company wants the figures for the production version of the Medfield chip, even reduce to, respectively, 2W and 2.6 W.
The reference platform would be equipped with a 1.6 GHz Medfield chip, 1GB LP-DDR2 memory, a 10.1″screen with 1280 by 800 pixels, and a micro-sd card for external storage. For the benchmarks used operating system is Honeycomb, but tablets based on the platform will be equipped with Ice Cream Sandwich.
