NVIDIA: Tegra K1 beat PS3 & Xbox 360

CEO Nvidia, Jen-Hsun Huang 

Nvidia also do not want to miss showing off its newest product in the arena CES 2014. Latest Tegra processor for handheld devices that have adopted the 64 -bit computing also announced its presence to the graphics technology defeating the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

What was delivered by Nvidia CEO, Jen - Hsun Huang is quite reasonable considering the amount of graphics cores offered reach 192 GPU. With such offal, which was announced by the mobile processor Tegra K1 name is claimed to be able to spawn ' GPU horsepower ' to 365 GFLOPS.

Compare with ' GPU horsepower ' owned Xbox 360 graphics chip is only able to spawn a number of 240 GFLOPS, and PlayStation 3 is actually only 192 GFLOPS.

Another advantage possessed Tegra K1 also lies in the support that is now capable of handling 64 -bit computing. This means that K1 is a Tegra mobile processor umpteenth technology that carries 64 bits after Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm.

Interestingly, although still relying on the ARM Cortex - A15 architecture, Nvidia claims still customize their own homemade 64 bit processor architecture called V8.

Thanks to customize the results, performance called Tegra K1 was capable of bypassing Apple's 64-bit processor performance A7 up to 3 times as much. It was shown in tests using 3.0 GFXBench Manhattan Test.

When Tegra K1 started to appear on the market? Huang said, Tegra K1 is also having 32 -bit version of its presence in the market will begin before mid-2014. While the 64 -bit version will present end year.

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