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[CES2015] Nvidia announces their next mobile superchip – The Tegra X1

CES 2015 begins this week and as most of you know, yesterday and today happens to be press conference day, where all the major companies out there hold press conferences to announce their newest gadgets, phones, tablets, wearables, and so on. So far there have been a few events already and one of those was Nvidia’s Press Conference where the company announced their newest superchip for mobile devices called the Tegra X1.

Each year during CES Nvidia announces the next installment into their Tegra series of chips for mobile devices. They have done it with pretty much every single Tegra chipset release and clearly this year is no exception with the announcement of the Tegra X1. Nvidia is continuing to push PC gaming technology into mobile devices and the Tegra X1 is built using the same Maxwell GPU as found in their fastest graphics cards for PC like the GTX 980. Nvidia states that the Tegra X1 sports around a teraflop of processing power which is roughly double what the Tegra K1 does.

Nvidia is calling this the first superchip for mobile devices which will come with 256 processor cores and eight CPU cores. Aside from allowing developers to really push mobile gaming graphics to the next level with the Tegra X1, it will also display 4K video at 60Hz. Interestingly enough, the main demos were focused on car related uses with Nvidia announcing their automotive computers called the Nvidia DRIVE. Android game developers will have support for DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.5, CUDA, OpenGL ES 3.1, and the Android Extension Pack with the Tegra X1.


Elemental by Epic Games

However there were a few gaming demos as well, one of which was a game called Elemental by Epic Games. If it follows the traditional that Epic Games has with CES demos for Nvidia and actual releases, we will never see this game actually get released since Epic Games has yet to release anything they demo at an Nvidia press conference onto Google Play. With that said, Elemental looked pretty awesome, which it should since it was built with Unreal Engine 4 and running on the Tegra X1.

You can check out Nvidia’s entire press conference on their YouTube channel if you missed the live stream of it. We will be sitting down with Nvidia and many other companies at CES 2015 so don’t go too far as there is plenty more coverage to come.

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