5x Performance Demonstrates NVIDIA's First Quad-Core Mobile Processor

Everyone knows that NVIDIA is developing the next-generation mobile quad-core processor and may announce it in the near future. This morning they chose to release it at the MWC 2011 Mobile Communications World Congress site, and released their Tegra roadmap. , and said that this quad-core processor will appear on Android phones in August this year.

Unlike the practices of Qualcomm and Texas Instruments over the past few days (in fact, their quad-core processors will not be sampled until next year), NVIDIA has abandoned the paper publishing method, directly held small-scale media conferences for presentations, and used an engineering tablet. Machines and a variety of software for everyone to show Kal-El, which also means that Kal-El will still be the first listed quad-core mobile processor.

Before the demonstration began, NVIDIA released the latest Tegra Roadmap, which continues through 2014, maintaining the rhythm of a new product each year. Tegra 2 is often called a super chip by the media, so NVIDIA has also codenamed future processors. Taking the performance of Tegra 2 as a benchmark, Kal-El (Superman) will ship this year, offering five times the performance of Tegra 2, Wayne (batman) in 2012 will increase to 10 times, and Logan in 2013. Wolf is about 50 times, and Stark (steel man) in 2014 is 100 times.

NVIDIA then began to demonstrate the performance of Kal-El, first of all on a 1440P HD video decoding demo on an Android tablet and output it to a 2560×1600 pixel HD display.

Next was a game demo, NVIDIA asked the participating media can not disclose the specific details of the game, but it is reported that Kal-El's graphics capabilities are indeed about three times the performance improvement as NVIDIA said, a Tegra 2 mobile phone running almost Can not exceed 20fps game, easily reached 60fps on the Kal-El engineering machine.

In addition, "History Channel Great Battles: Medieval (The History Channel: The Great Medieval War)" was demonstrated. The game was launched last year for the Xbox 360 and PS3 and is currently being transplanted to the cellular tablet. According to its developer, demo demos for the quad-core Kal-El platform took less than 24 hours, because the graphics chips used here are very similar to the GeForce GPU architecture.

In benchmark tests such as CoreMark, Kal-El scored 11354, which has surpassed Intel's 2GHz Core 2 T7200 processor (10136).