In this demo used to illustrate the power behind NVIDIA's upcoming Kal-El quad-core Tegra SoC, we see a glowing ball illuminate every pixel of every object in the scene with dynamic lighting - a 3D feat previously impossible by mobile processors. It's really quite an impressive demo, and the video above far better conveys that than any words could here. Suffice it to say, though, that we're looking forward to what looks like a very powerful mobile future. The question is: will we be sacrificing power efficiency overly for all the bells and whistles?
via ubergizmo
According to MICDigi, NVIDIA have gone through "phase 2" of contracts with Shenzhen companies, and we can expect up to 10 new tablets - possible more (as NVIDIA has added 10 new customers) to emerge out of the market powered by the beastly Tegra 2. The interesting thing is that these tablets apparently are not slated to cost much more than $230, and many of them will be coming in at the 10-inch screen size. If this holds up, then it will be very cool indeed. The awesome power of the Tegra 2 at such a low price is enough to make even the most diehard non-Chinese-tablet-buyers think twice. At around $38 per pop, the Tegra 2 SoC certainly isn't cheap, but with its dual-A9-core processor with and powerful on-board graphics it's one of the most powerful SoCs out today.
via micdigi
There are a lot of chips in the Shenzhen tablet market currently. We've got classic ARM9/ARM11-based ones, ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 ones as well. Sometimes it can get a little confusing, especially if you're on the lookout for chips that do something specifically well - you may be willing to accept worse performance in one area for better performance in another. Well, inspired a very useful post by MICDigi, we've decided to compile a brief list of some of the more commonly found chips in Shenzhen tablets, and what their strengths / weaknesses are and some examples of tablets that use them. Without further ado...
Rockchip chips are some of the most common you'll find in low-cost Shenzhen tablets - that is, the classic ARM9-based Rockchip chips (RK2808 and RK2818). The former is es
The QPad M1006 from Shenzhen Renben Tech houses the powerful NVIDIA Tegra 2 SoC (and looks similar the Malata ZPad). Tegra 2: that dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 beast (clocked at 1GHz) and it's one of the most powerful mobile processors on the market to date. What's not to be excited about? One of the highlights: 1) switching from a bog-standard 2.2 UI to a pretty amazing 3D custom UI, that runs very smoothly, without so much as a hiccup; 2) great 1080p video playback, smooth and no visible signs of frame rate loss; 3) 3D games running lag-free. How do we know all of this? There are two videos (and full specs) after the break from Micdigi who walks us through the tablet demonstrating it's functionality.
The videos are hosted on Tudou, so they may not work for all.
In this first video, we
We've blogged about how the NVIDIA Tegra 3 chip dubbed Kal-El (Superman's real name, to stop those bells ringing) out-performs its Tegra 2 predecessor by three fold (and optimimly by 5 fold). Also that it is capable of running Great Battle Medeival - a PS3 game that has 600 soldiers active during game-play. We now have a video showing that. We also have a video of Kal-El in action and connected to a monitor via HDMI-out during the same MWC event. This video however shows this quad-core NVIDIA chip's capabilities in tracking the 600 characters movements - very much a superman level strength requirement from a processor, which Kal-El has. With a 12-core NVIDIA GPU on the same platform, extreme HD is achieved. Extreme HD is 2560 x 1600. Check the video out after the break.
via ta
JKK takes a look at a demo Tegra 3 "Kal-El" tablet running 1440p (2560 x 1440) video on both the tablet and outputing it to a HD TV - pretty amazing stuff. The Tegra 3 is a quad-A9-core SoC coming soon from NVIDIA, and is looking to be every bit the beast we expect it to be. Read more about Tegra 3 here.
via jkkmobile
NVIDIA's Tegra 2 SoC is one of major popularity in the current abundance of tablets being announced (MWC 2011) and already out on the market. Its popularity comes, in Layman's terms, because of its power and high speed performance. In steps the NVIDIA KAL-EL, also known as Tegra 3. First off, to clear the confusion with the names - KAL-EL is the internal code-name for the Tegra product whereas Tegra 3 is the commercial product name (although not official). We've blogged about Tegra 3 before stating that its a quad-core chip with a graphics accelerator and is 3X faster than the Tegra 2. Find out KAL-EL's current state and performance preview courtesy of Ubergizmo.com after the break.
NVIDIA has had a lead on sampling their new Tegra product as they have had working silicon for th
Samsung ARM Cortex-A9 Orion processor with Mali-400 graphics - Samsung Galaxy Tab 2?
Freescale i.MX6 series ARM Cortex-A9 information.
Texas Instruments OMAP4-powered devices.
Way more Honeycomb.
Tegra 2 3D edition, clocked at 1.2GHz. Roadmap here.
Qualcomm MSM8660, MSM8260-powered devices.
More Rockchip RK29xx (ARM Cortex-A8) information and powered devices.
HP webOS tablet - Topaz?
LG G-Slate?
Lots and lots of tablets.
Lots and lots of smartphones.
Lots and lots of gadgets.
We can only hope. We'll be gone for a while for Chinese New Year - see you Monday.
Thanks Charbax.
The Tegra 3 chip by NVIDIA, quite like its Tegra 2 predecessor, is bound to be a real beast. Sporting four Cortex A9 cores, the SoC will apparently also carry a graphics processor that will be three times faster than Tegra 2 which, quite frankly, is completely absurd (in a good way). The Tegra 3's graphics accelerator will also accelerate Flash, which is good news. The Tegra 2 SoC is already one of the fastest mobile solutions on the market - being essentially a "premium" SoC for tablets and mobile phones - and the aggressive forward movement to Tegra 3 indicates that it is a perch that NVIDIA does not want to be dislodged from. Also good news, some low-level software and drivers written for Tegra 2 will work on Tegra 3 from day one, meaning a lot of work already done by handset / table
We recently blogged about GLBenchmark 2.0's release, and the various 3D tests that the good folk over at Anandtech did on various market-leading smartphone handsets. Now, those at Anandtech have performed a few 3D tests stacking up NVIDIA's Tegra 2's SoC to that of a SGX 540 that comes as part of the Samsung Hummingbird SoC. We see that while the Tegra 2 does maintain a lead throughout all benchmarks, the lead is not as wide as we might have perhaps expected. The Tegra 2 certainly as the potential to be the best Android gaming SoC, and we're not sure if the shoddy Android UI that Viewsonic have implemented on their G Tablet is playing any part in these results, but don't be quick to discount other options.
via anandtech
« Older Entries
