When Nvidia showcased the new Tegra 4 processor at Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, we knew that the performance of the new chip would be nothing but spectacular and now, at Mobile World Congress, Nvidia has finally showed us what the Tegra 4 is capable of.

At the ongoing MWC, Nvidia has showed off the power of the new Tegra 4 processor by running some benchmark tests on a developer preview smartphone, powered by the new processor and the results of the tests have left us spellbound. The Nvidia Tegra 4 is a monster when it comes to processing power.

The reference smartphone powered by the new Tegra 4 processor scored a whooping 36,000 in AnTuTu Benchmarks, and that is the greatest score we’ve ever seen for a device. Also, the Quadrant 2.0 score managed to breach the 16,000 mark whereas in the GLBenchmark’s Egypt offscreen test, the device averaged at 57 frames per second (fps) at 1080p. There’s no doubt that the new chip smokes the competition as far as benchmark scores are concerned, but it is also important to know that the device on which these benchmark tests were conducted, was far from a retail-ready state.

With the Tegra 4 leading the pack of next-gen processors, it will be interesting to see how well the competition stacks up. Qualcomm has already announced that it’s upcoming Snapdragon 800 processor would be better than the Tegra 4 and the other big player Samsung is also preparing it’s Exynos 5 Octa Core processor, which might well leave both these processors behind.Let’s hope that both Samsung and Qualcomm soon show us the benchmark tests of their new processors.