Intel Medfield SoC benchmark Vs Tegra 2 and Exynos, specifications details

Some interesting news leaked today on the web exactly from TPU guys, the news is about Intel and mobile world.

The news confirming the entrance of Intel to the mobile processing chip production after the announcement of the next-generation Atom mobile platform here is the first true SoC (System-on-a-Chip) from their labs, the Intel Medfield SoC, the new product will target mobile devices combining four units and functions into one chip.

The Intel chip will use 32 nm process technology and its direct competitors are Apple's A-Series, NVIDIA Tegra, Qualcomm Snapdragon, Samsung Exynos (the only one that use 32nm process) and Texas Instruments OMAP.

Very soon the Intel Midfield will be shown on CES 2012, but today some benchmark results leaked from Intel labs comaring it with the Tegra 2, Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8260 and Samsung Exynos showing a lead of performance using Caffeine 3 tool when tested using a prototype device made by Intel using this chip, has the following specifications :

• 1.6 GHz Medfield SoC, 
• 1GB LP-DDR2 (LP = low power) 
• WLAN/Bluetooth/FM radio chip of unknown origin
• eMMC/micro-SD card slot 
• 10.1" screen with 1280x800 resolution.

Benchmark results by Intel:

using Android 3.x (Honeycomb) and Caffeine 3, scored around 10,500 points.

Power consumption :
- 2.6 W in idle, with 2 W being the target
- 3.6 W worst case when playing back 720p video in Adobe Flash format, with 2.6 W worst case being the target.