News - Nvidia Tegra K1 brings Kepler GPU architecture to mobile

[HEXUS]

This "192-core super chip" is also on its way into self-driving cars.

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[scaryjim]

So nvidia are claiming it's a triumph that their latest mobile chip is faster than a device which went on sale more than 8 years ago? And we can't actually buy devices with K1 yet, so it's going to be 8.5 - 9 years by the time it's in the market? I'm not seeing the big wow there - it's about a 30% power reduction per year, or 40% per 18 months (the usual Moore's Law period). This is about the time I'd expect to get a mobile chip at that performance level.

It'd also be interesting to see what the 4W Mullins quad cores can do in comparison - I think AMD might already be there...

[sykobee]

Nvidia are certainly very skilled with Powerpoint.

But so far they've not been executing on all cylinders with Tegra. No wonder they're rebranding it as the K series, to move away from the old numbering scheme.

But they need people to use them in their designs, Powerpoint slides don't bring in money.

[SkarKrow]

Interesting but I'd rather see it live than Unreal tech demos and power point slides, tech demos are so rarely representative of the final product.

[zdn1042]

Does a phone/tablet Nvidia Tegra K1 suffer from too much heat when used a lot? I've heard some stories about it, not sure if it's true or not.

[najiro]

Ohh well, let's just wait for the actual thing.