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NVIDIA Tegra K1 – Is This The World’s First Mobile Supercomputer?

It has a massive 192-Core chip.

 

NVIDIA unveils a “revolutionary” Tegra K1 mobile processor, which is the world’s most powerful mobile processor according to the company. This apparently is the same architecture that powers the powerful desktop GPU beast of NVIDIA, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti.

No this isn’t the Tegra 5, but rather a non-linear progression from previous Tegra chips. The chipset is based on Kepler architecture, instead of the Tegra chips we are used to seeing on the mobile platform. Kepler might ring a bell as it is NIVIDIA uses it in its top-of-the-line chips found in high performance cards such as the GTX 780.

Why is NVIDIA trying to shove a GTX 780-like chip in a mobile platform?
It is pretty evident that mobile gaming doesn’t need such RAW power, atleast not yet. But, we might just see a Crysis-type game for the mobile platform backed by NVIDIA as their game plan is to get into mobile gaming—by using Android’s base to dislodge console gaming dominance.


The two NVIDIA Tegra K1 chips (pic courtsey TalkAndroid)

One Chip To Rule Them All
There are actually not one but two Tegra K1’s, a 32-bit Quad-core, 4-Plus-1 Arm Cortex A15 CPU and a dual-core, 64-bit Super Core CPU, codename Denver. The new processors will be able to support Unreal Engine 4 and OpenGL 4.4 on mobile devices. These chips in other words will bridge the gap between mobile and desktop gaming as well as apps across platforms.

Interesting times are surely to come! For details check out NVIDIA press release.


TAGS: NVIDIA, Mobile Phones, Tablets

 
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