Nvidia Demonstrates Quad-core Kal-El Chip
Gaming on tablets could take off with this muscle.
Dual-core Tegra 2 chips are the brains and brawn behind the top performing Android smartphones and tablets, but Nvidia is already promising a quad-core version it calls Kal-El (the birth name of Superman) for later this year.
Nvidia has just revealed a tech demo/game called Glowball that shows off what the quad-core CPU and its 12-core GPU can do when it comes to dynamic lighting and real-time physics. Nvidia says that this marks the first time that this type of lighting is possible on a mobile device.
The Glowball demo runs smoothly on the early Kal-El silicon, but when Nvidia disables two of the cores to make it effectively a dual-core affair, performance chugs noticeably – helping to prove Nvidia's push for more cores.
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Definitely looks pretty good O.o
Let me get this straight. Am I right in assuming that despite being able to access a 12-core GPU, most of the geometry is still being handled by the CPU? If so, then would this not create a potential bottleneck? Would it not also be energy inefficient? These are just some questions off the top of head; I don't fully understand this technology.
"smooth as butter"