“It’s simply inappropriate to call it Tegra 5, it’s simply not linear,” CEO of NVIDIA, Jen-Hsun told the crowd at The Strip’s Cosmopolitan Hotel. “We’ve brought the heart of GeForce and the soul of Tesla to mobile computing.”
NVIDIA Tegra K1 consits of a NVIDIA 4-Plus-1 Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A15 “r3″ CPU that can be clocked at 2.3 GHz. The GPU in this chip uses NVIDIA Kepler Architecture to pack 192 NVIDIA CUDA Cores. It will be capable of producing 3840 x 2160 LCD resolution as well as 4K UltraHD at 4096 x 2160, allowing it to power-up 4K TV sets, game consoles, cars and much more, consuming the lowest of power. Tegra K1 will virtually turn any device into a supercomputer.
“Tegra K1 is based on DX11. Its GPU has more horsepower than Xbox 360 and PS3″
“Console in the palm of your hand” reads one of the slides at the press event showing a comparison between next-gen video game consoles against NVIDIA Tegra K1. This actually amazed me how advanced NVIDIA has become.
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In a brilliant marketing stunt, NVIDIA also explained how it fooled many people into talk about its’ latest invention by making an amazing crop circle to promote the Tegra K1 processor. Even the most popular news providers went crazy over it.
During the press event, Jen-Hsun demoed Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4 running on a Tegra K1 mobile processor. In case you’re unaware, Unreal Engine 4 is the same tech that powers the upcoming next-gen video games. Check it out on the video to see the awesomeness of this chip.
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