NVIDIA Tegra Note 7 Review
by Brian Klug on November 12, 2013 9:01 AM EST- Posted in
- Tablets
- Mobile
- Tegra 4
- NVIDIA
- Tegra Note
Display
At the front of Tegra Note 7 is a 7-inch 1280x800 IPS LCD. This is the same form factor as what we saw on the previous generation Nexus 7, and thanks to the FCC’s internal photos, we know the exact panel. It’s an LG LD070WX3 panel, interestingly enough same as the Kindle Fire HD, for comparison as far as I know the Nexus 7 of yesteryear used a Hydis panel.
Inside Display settings on the Tegra Note there’s a a color correction preset, which allows one to switch between sRGB and Native.
I’m grateful that NVIDIA is being upfront for users who want either sRGB calibration or the native properties of the panel. In addition NVIDIA is exposing a toggle under power for turning PRISM on or off, which some users disliked on the previous gen Nexus 7. I turned this off and the color mode to sRGB when testing.
Subjectively the display on Tegra Note is appealing, with no immediately visible superficial problems like light bleeding from the edges or a quick falloff in contrast at extreme viewing angles. I wish that the device had a high DPI panel like I’ve gotten used to with so many of the newer tablets, but otherwise the display is subjectively good enough.
Color calibration is, you guessed it, better than the old Nexus 7, but not quite as good as the newer Nexus 7. It’s clear that NVIDIA placed some emphasis on getting the display close, but it could still be closer.
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polaco - Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - link
they haven't been able to sell those tegra 4 chips to anyone. Many times those chips don't match the specifications they promise to hardware vendors and thus they have turned their back to NVidia. Now they are desperatly trying to find a market to tegra 4 chips at any cost.BryanC - Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - link
Do you have a source for this? Other than Mr. Demerjian? #sighKrysto - Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - link
I'm hoping for a 10-12" Tegra Note with a Tegra 5 chip and a higher resolution (at least 1920x1200), next year. Too bad Nvidia won't be making any ARMv8 chips next year, though, because I would've also liked that. Making Tegra 5 at 28nm will be pretty disappointing, too, but anyways, just show me a larger tablet with this tech.darwinosx - Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - link
I'd much rather seen an iPad Mini review since people will actually buy and use those unlike this hunk of junk.Raghu - Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - link
Pretty good demo of what its capablehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtZz4PjcAUk
darkich - Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - link
Why aren't you including the Note 3 in your benchmark charts?Please answer
will2 - Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - link
Brian, as you were understandably comparing the Tegra Note7 against N7.2 and commented on the N7.2 being better in having 2band WiFi, then WHY did you omit the N7.2 Wifi Benchark ? (useful to publish speed v range)Also, I realise the N5 is arguably too small to be considered a tablet, but being a high interest current model, would be very handy to update your tables with N5 benchmarks
Arbie - Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - link
I'm sad to see an Anandtech review distorted by personal preferences. Brian seems determined to deprecate or when possible ignore SD card capabilities. The ability to instantly swap huge amounts of media in and out is obviously important to anyone who seeking such a tablet for watching video. The Tegra 7 has this slot; the Nexus 7 sadly does not. But - this fact doesn't even make it into the concluding list of pros and cons!! Brian reluctantly gives the SD slot half of a disinterested sentence somewhere else, after the pages of fit and finish descriptions he is prone to. This is ludicrously unfair to the Tegra and a disservice to those readers who focus on the conclusions. I would pay $50 EXTRA to have the SD slot, on any tablet. The fact that Brian has no use for it doesn't mean it should be excluded from the review! Who's minding the store here?29a - Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - link
You should review the Sero 7 Pro. Better specs than the 1st Gen Nexus 7 for $50 less.Death666Angel - Thursday, November 14, 2013 - link
Costs exactly the same here in Germany. 170^€ for the 8GB Sero 7 Pro and 165€ for a 16GB Nexus 7 2012. It seems to only have DDR2 RAM (at least the sellers advertise it as such), it lacks some battery power, but it does have miniHDMI and a back camera. Note exactly sure those are better specs.