ColdFusion - Destruction of the Transformer Prime (Tegra 3)

Episode Date: July 17, 2026

*It ran out of RAM before the cores maxed out and I think there were actually 14 videos! not 12: Core monitor app is "System Panel"Putting the Tegra 3 through it's paces all in good fun and entertainment ladies and gents.*New Blog: http://coldfustion.blogspot.com.au/Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ColdfusTion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi Dice, so this is just another video. It's going to be kind of something different to what I usually do. It's not going to be me showcasing any applications or giving tips or anything like that. This is purely out of curiosity and for entertainment purposes and for fun. I'm sure all of you guys who have a Tegra 3 processor or, you know, are interested in any tech or anything, be wondering what the absolute limit of this thing would be, like how you can crash it or, you know, just what can you do? So first I'll clear everything just to make sure this is fair because things are going to get messy. Yeah, so as you probably saw, well here you can see that we're going to be checking the progress of all the cores as we added more and more stuff in until it crashes. So basically, you know, just seen in my last video, the Stick It Video app.

So it's kind of like, you know, you can play multiple videos at once. But on gingerbread for some reason, it would only allow two and it was kind of not taking advantage of the hardware properly. But it seems on ice cream sandwich, like you can put as many as you can put as many as you would. one as you can see here. So basically the idea is to play as many HD videos as I can until the device just gives up. So yeah like the Galaxy Note didn't really struggle with two that was fine and obviously you can see here with five videos going on at the same time everything moves just as smoothly as you would normally have it. I think once the Galaxy Note gets the Ice Cream Sandwich I'll try the same thing

and then we'll see what happens there. But anyway so I've got five videos simultaneously playing and as you can see all the cores there, they only spiked up because I opened the program, but you know three of them are about half active and one's not even doing anything so it's not really struggling there, just chewing through it. No problems, everything's playing smoothly, all the videos aren't stuttering, no artifacts, it's all good. Sounds like an absolute mess, but anyway, so going, adding two more, so we have seven videos,

everything still moves normally, like nothing's happening, like, no problems at all, TeGA 3 is just chewing. through it just taking its merry time. We'll check the cores now and what we see with seven videos running is when it balances out we have all of them probably three quarters full or more so that's kind of spiked up a little bit. Add a couple more so you've got eight now, bit of Jimmy Eat World so increase the size of that just to see it better add some more got nine videos now everything still still looks well everything moves all right ten videos so you know this is

getting pretty extreme now like it's kind of still amazing that nothing's gone wrong yet ten videos playing simultaneously at the same time let's check check how the cores are doing. Obviously quad core beast 1.3 gigahertz and now we're starting to see it have a little bit of a doubt if we can do this. We have almost probably like five six full on each core so they're all working hard there almost maxing out but not quite there yet still got a bit but I think we can do better than that we'll go and add even some more videos on top of all of these so Let's see, so now, what, lost count was that?

11 and 12 now, and 13, 12 or 13, I think it was 12, we'll go with 12. So we have 12 videos running now, now you can see it's starting to have a bit of a panic attack. It's not moving according to my finger as smoothly as it was before, but the videos are surprisingly still playing fine, which is interesting. It just seems that it doesn't want to trace my hand as well as it did. I guess we can go back and check the cores now. See how the good old Tegra 3 is doing. And let's see. So now we have, still about the same actually.

All videos are still playing. And we still got a bit of room on the processor. But oh, the memory. Memory is almost gone. Seems like we're going to run out of memory before anything else. So we'll go home, swipe around, see how things are. Obviously a lot less responsive than they were. But they still work.

surprisingly. Yeah, but it looks like we're running out of memory pretty fast and that's going to happen before any of the course so opening any of the other apps isn't going to work because we've run out of memory and yeah it's just not going to work. We can't open anymore apps because we've maxed out, ran before the core of being maxed out now it's time you see artifacts and videos are not having fun processes yet. It's gone. Killed it. So there you go guys. It takes about 12 videos and opening extra, or 12 HD videos and opening extra apps to reboot this thing. So, you know, that's a pretty good effort, I'd say. Pretty good.

Impressive. So this video wasn't meant to be a negative take on the Taker 3 processor. I mean like in a day-to-day use, I can't actually crash the thing, so that's pretty good. But anyway, if you like this video, please pass it on to all your Tegger 3 friends and share the fun. All right, cheers guys.