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NVIDIA is planning to extend its lineup of gaming tablets
If you followed what happened at CES 2015, you probably know NVIDIA took the opportunity to unveil their latest 20nm Tegra X1 chip.
The new architecture arrives as a successor to the Tegra K1 SoC and should be implemented in upcoming high-performance mobile devices.
Tegra X1-equipped tablets coming soon
Now a new report coming out of Fudzilla indicates that NVIDIA is planning to announce a new version of the Shield Tablet that will take advantage of a Tegra X1 chip at GTC 2015 (GPU Technology Conference) scheduled for March 17.
The Tegra X1 is an octa-core 64-bit ARM chip taking advantage of four Cotex-A57 2MB L2 cores and another four Cortex-A53 512KB L2 cores.
The same chip is also porting the Maxwell setup to mobile. The 20nm silicone supports Maxwell 256-core GPU, DX-12, OpenGL 4.5, NVIDIA CUDA, OpenGL ES 3.1 and AEP support.
Compared to the 192 CUDA cores on Kepler inside the Tegra K1, the Maxwell cores bring forth 40% better performance and 2 times the efficiency, so we can expect the next-gen Shield Tablet to be very speedy when it comes to gaming.
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The next Nvidia Shield tablet looks like a very fast tablet. It's amazing that the next Shield tablet will have 256-cores on the GPU, and be 40% more powerful, and 2 times more efficient.
If you followed what happened at CES 2015, you probably know NVIDIA took the opportunity to unveil their latest 20nm Tegra X1 chip.
The new architecture arrives as a successor to the Tegra K1 SoC and should be implemented in upcoming high-performance mobile devices.
Tegra X1-equipped tablets coming soon
Now a new report coming out of Fudzilla indicates that NVIDIA is planning to announce a new version of the Shield Tablet that will take advantage of a Tegra X1 chip at GTC 2015 (GPU Technology Conference) scheduled for March 17.
The Tegra X1 is an octa-core 64-bit ARM chip taking advantage of four Cotex-A57 2MB L2 cores and another four Cortex-A53 512KB L2 cores.
The same chip is also porting the Maxwell setup to mobile. The 20nm silicone supports Maxwell 256-core GPU, DX-12, OpenGL 4.5, NVIDIA CUDA, OpenGL ES 3.1 and AEP support.
Compared to the 192 CUDA cores on Kepler inside the Tegra K1, the Maxwell cores bring forth 40% better performance and 2 times the efficiency, so we can expect the next-gen Shield Tablet to be very speedy when it comes to gaming.
Read More
The next Nvidia Shield tablet looks like a very fast tablet. It's amazing that the next Shield tablet will have 256-cores on the GPU, and be 40% more powerful, and 2 times more efficient.
