NVIDIA Tegra X1: octa-core chip with 256-core Maxwell graphics

[froggyboy604]

Last year NVIDIA introduced a mobile processor with 192-core Kepler graphics. This year the company’s stepping up its game with the Tegra X1 chip.
 
It’s an 8-core mobile processor with 256-core Maxwell graphics: the same graphics technology used in the desktop and notebook graphics chips NVIDIA introduced in 2014.
 
NVIDIA says the processor can handle 4K video playback at 60 Hz with 10-bit video in H.265 and VP9 formats, supports the same game engines as desktop chips, and offers twice the performance-per-watt of last year’s NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor.
 
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This sounds like a pretty fast mobile CPU, and video chip. I bet the next Nvidia Shield Tegra X1 device for 2015 will be a game console instead of a Tablet, or handheld.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Has to be if it wants to keep up with 4k resolution.

 

[froggyboy604]

The next Nvidia Shield device also maybe a Gaming PC since Gaming PC could display video in 4K for a few years now, and there are also more 4K PC monitors these days.

But, I think it is more likely to be a game console since it would attract more buyers like casual games, and kids who may enjoy playing games on a Big Screen 4K TV with a controller rather than PC with keyboard and mouse.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Assuming they get word out enough for people to buy this.