News - Nvidia details Tegra 5 and 64-bit Tegra 6 SoC plans

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Progress from Tegra 2 to Tegra 6 will represent a “100x” performance improvement.

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To be fair, Tegra 2 was a complete dog, so 100x faster than that isn't as special as it sounds. OTOH Tegra 3 was alright and if we take the marketing slide above as being even slightly accurate then it will be 20x faster than that. But is that CPU, or combined CPU+GPU - Tegra 3's GPU is quite weak.

What ever Nvida can do, Samsung / Qualcomm seem to do better.

"The Maxwell GPU has a unified virtual memory architecture"

So, like AMD is introducing this year, they mean? ;)

The live demo of it running CUDA and OpenGL programs was pretty impressive I have to say.

More competition, more choice...

Always great for consumers.

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Originally Posted by scaryjim

"The Maxwell GPU has a unified virtual memory architecture"

So, like AMD is introducing this year, they mean? ;)

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I think AMD are going to be a year ahead in that tech. The HD7790 may have this already, we will have to wait and see.. or maybe the higher end HD89XX and HD88XX cards will when they release.