Chipbedrijf Nvidia has on the eve of CES, a new mobile chip announced, called Tegra X1. The soc consists of eight 64bit processor cores and a gpu based on the Maxwell-architecture. Nvidia sees the automotive industry as an important market for the Tegra X1.
Nvidia explained in the notice especially the emphasis on the gpu of the Tegra X1, which is on the same Maxwell-based is if Nvidia’s recent graphics cards for desktops and laptops. According to the-up chip designer is the first mobile gpu that is more than 1 teraflops of computing power in the processing of 16-bit floating point numbers. That’s a lot more than 365 gigaflops of the Tegra K1, and according to Nvidia, the gpu is also several times faster than the gpu in a fast desktop cpu from Intel, such as the 4790K.
In addition to the Maxwell-gpu contains the Tegra X1 eight 64-bit-processing cores, presumably based on Nvidia’s own Denver-design for the Tegra K1 was introduced. These eight cores are, according to Nvidia is prepared in a 4+4 setup, which probably means that four cores are lower clocked and will only be used at lower processor load, which is similar to ARM’s big.Little format.
Nvidia made a lot details about the Tegra X1 known. Thus, it is not yet clear at what clock speed the eight-core chip ticking. Also is nothing known about the clock speed of the gpu, the design of the memory controller or the used production process. Well made Nvidia announced that the gpu has 256 Cuda cores and hardware support for the h.265 and vp9 codecs with a 4k resolution at 60fps and a 10-bit color depth. The demonstration of a graphics demo based on Unreal Engine 4 it was reported that the chip up to 10W verstookt.
This seems the X1 is not intended for use in phones or tablets. Nvidia called these groups than not, but put the emphasis on the automobile industry. The company has for car manufacturers, even a small computer system developed, based on the Tegra X1, called the Drive CX. Car manufacturers can this hardware use to all the computer systems in their cars. Nvidia also offers a runtime, called Drive Studio, who develop for the platform should facilitate.