EVGA Tegra Note 7 Android 4.3 Tablet Review

Name: EVGA Tegra Note 7 Android 4.3 Tablet Review
Brand: EVGA

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, December 31, 2013, 11:00 AM EDT

In addition to using the EVGA Tegra Note 7 for portable browsing and gaming and in a variety of everyday usage scenarios, we also conducted some formal performance testing to see how well it compared to some of the other mobile devices we have recently evaluated.

CPU testing

Android CPU testing

In the Linpack benchmark, the Tegra Note 7 slots in a notch behind the NVIDIA SHIELD and higher-powered phones/tablets we've tested, but well ahead of some of last year's devices.

AnTuTu Detailed Results - Click To Enlarge

The Tegra Note 7 also put up some middling numbers in the AnTuTu suite of benchmarks. Its performance was relatively strong in the GPU, memory and storage IO tests, but its overall score trailed the SHIELD, Note 3, and reference BayTrail-based tablet.

MobileXPRT Detailed Results - Click To Enlarge

According to the MobileXPRT suite of benchmarks, however, the Tegra Note 7 is a performance champ. Here, it trails only the higher clocked (and actively cooled) SHIELD portable gaming device. The Tegra 4 in addition to its streamlined and better optimized installation of Android 4.3 give the Tegra Note 7 an edge in may of the real-world scenarios tested by MobleXPRT.

Tags: Nvidia, Android, evga, tablet, tegra, slate, review, note

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com