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06-03-2008, 12:36 AM
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| | | Nvidia takes on Intel's Atom with new processor
Nvidia has created a portable processor "Tegra" that goes heavy on graphics. For a phone or video player (like the iPhone), this means tons of power for 3d graphical interfaces. Quote: |
Originally Posted by article
Last week, a member of the Tegra team told me they had Quake III up and running on Tegra-powered device, running at around 30 FPS -- which is impressive, for a chip that is about the size of your fingernail (144 mm square.)
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Last week, NVIDIA was showing one such possible upcoming Tegra-powered device: a portable video player, that was around the same size as an iPhone. Taking full advantage of the graphics processing ability supplied by Tegra, the small video player was capable of decoding 720p high-def quality video to a HDTV at 30 frames per second. (1080p video encoding/decoding was also possible, but at only 24 FPS.)
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This is the kind of processor we want in our portable devices - not just PMPs, but even the subnotebooks, with the poor built-in graphics, drop in one of these as a dedicated GPU, only 2watts of power, still able to play HD movies and quake3 at decent rates? omglicious. Quote: |
Originally Posted by ars
NVIDIA is at pains to point out that Tegra does on 144mm2 what Intel's UMPC/MID platform needs three chips to do (an Atom CPU, a memory and I/O hub, and a GPU). And it has a legit point there. In the near-term, nothing Atom-based will be able to come close to Tegra in terms of a combination of 3D performance, battery life, and form factor. Not until Atom's SoC successor, Moorestown, will Intel be in the same ballpark here.
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06-03-2008, 12:40 AM
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06-03-2008, 12:45 AM
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| | | Awesome, but I wonder how much it costs.
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06-03-2008, 01:29 AM
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| | the intel atom is supposedly ridiculously cheap - Atom: Intel Sets Low Price for its Atom CPU - around $44 or so...if nvidia wants to compete it'll have to price it's chips accordingly...another factor is that unlike the desktop pc market, there is A LOT of competition in the mobile arena...ARM, VIA, Intel and NVIDIA all produce products that have been shown to work very well, so this should be a good thing for consumers in the next couple of years...
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06-03-2008, 02:26 AM
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| | | cool, although its not really pocket-sized there
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06-03-2008, 02:27 AM
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 : 65 th | | | i am being more and more drawn into the potential of these portable sub notebooks when I hear stuff like this
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06-03-2008, 09:24 AM
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Originally Posted by CmdrTulkas  | Looks to be about the same size as the iPhone, and most PDAs.
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06-03-2008, 09:29 AM
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| | | This is great new in moving forward with mobile GPU's. This and Android should kick ass but we just gotta wait and see how much they give it to us for. |
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06-03-2008, 07:04 PM
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| | | Impressive...most impressive.
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