We told you many times that the Tegra 2 chipset is fast, but that was something we’ve heard a lot of times, not witnessed ourselves. Now things have changed as someone at Carrypad got the chance to benchmark the Tegra 2 on a Toshiba AC100 smartbook (I don’t know how else to call it).

    The program used to measure the raw speed of the Tegra 2 chipset was Quadrand, one benchmark specially designed for mobile devices with single core CPU’s (mind that Tegra 2 features a dual core CPU, so actual performance in real life scenarios could be even better). Take a look at the graph below and you’ll see that the Toshiba AC100 powered by Tegra 2 managed to score 1911 points, while the second place, a Nexus One with Android 2.2 only managed to get 1390. And that’s with the Tegra 2 running on the slightly older Android 2.1, so an update could bring serious improvements.

    Tegra 2 performance graph

    Tegra 2 performance graph