After unveiling the new GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 graphics cards, and finally releasing Grid streaming, what could Nvidia possibly have to reveal at CES 2015?
Apparently, a powerful mobile chip. Dubbed the Tegra X1, the processor is super energy efficient while also packing enough power to run a desktop.
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang dubbed it a "superchip," and it is rather impressive. The Tegra X1 counts 256 Maxwell GPU cores, an 8-core 64-bit CPU and 4K video capabilities at 60Hz.
Huang said the Tegra X1 is energy efficient thanks to its Maxwell roots, but it can also run state of the art engines that any desktop computer or next-gen console can run. With the Tegra X1, users are in for a console-like experience on their mobile devices.
Thanks to the Tegra X1, Unreal Engine 4 can run on a mobile device, Huang said.
It features the first GPU with FP16 and is, according to Huang, the first mobile processor to reach the one teraflops summit.
The question is, what to do with all those teraflops?
Drive time
Huang moved from mobile processors to mobile in the traditional sense by introducing Drive CX, a digital cockpit computer.
The Drive CX demo was a flashy bit of 3D renders of maps, gauges, and an infotainment system, but instead of being housed in a center-console tablet, Nvidia's in-car vision extended to just about every car surface.
Powered by Maxwell, the Drive CX can produce up to 16.6 million pixels inside your vehicle. The system is OS agnostic. During the onstage demo, Nvidia showed off customizable features like matching the Drive CX UI to real-world materials, demonstrating to both consumers and car makers they have some freedom when it comes to Drive CX's design.
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