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A leaked slide, published by Chip Hell, purports to show the specs of NVIDIA’s next high-power mobile processors — and if the leak’s accurate, it looks like NVIDIA is more than catching up with the competition.
The leak details the 4th generation of NVIDIA’s Tegra processor, currently codenamed Wayne. It apparently uses 28 nanometer processing across a 72-core graphics setup — but let’s get down to performance figures mentioned in the leak instead.
Apparently the graphics processing power makes it twenty times more powerful than the Tegra 2 and six times more powerful than Tegra 3. In real terms, that means that, according to the leak, it will be able to power screens with resolutions up to 2560 x 1600, pumping out 1080p video at 120Hz — and there’s even passing mention of 4K. 4K!
Elsewhere, the CPU is the same 4-plus-1 setup of the Tegra 3, but presumably beefed right up. Indeed, the leak mentions that it will be the first mobile NVIDIA chipset to offer up USB 3.0. Otherwise details are scant — but if the leak is accurate, it looks like NVIDIA has caught up and then some. [Engadget via Mobile Geeks via Chip Hell]
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Wayne?!
as in Bruce Wayne I guess, wasn’t a previous version called Kal el?
Yeah, I figured it out after reading the linked tegra 3 article.
Still, yuck.
I thought you meant this sort of wayne – http://tiny.cc/8wpipw
I’d expect it to be great if it was named after Batman, although the Tegra series has never been very good compared to the competition.
Where are you getting that from? Tegra 1 wasn’t that great but not many people used it. Tegra 2 on the other hand was excellent and was the best mobile chipset for tablets going at the time. Even now Tegra 3 especially in tablets is excellent as it handles graphics intensive applications very well and has the best games compatibility.
After the first few months especially the tegra chipsets get a bit better as developers handle them better. The power consumption on them is only high when they are mishandled, when I first got a tegra 3 on android it sucked down power at a prodigous rate but a couple of updates down the line it only sips power most of the time and lasts ages.
and 5 seconds of battery life..
The Tegra 3 was more energy efficient than the Tegra 2, same goes here, plus they have that extra 5th core to save the battery further.
The question is not just battery life.. It’s also if anything will actually utilise this power. By the time any apps are developed to take advantage, the Tegra 5 will be knocking about. Don’t think the upgrade to an A6x was a good choice for me on my iPad either, nothing takes advantage with the next update due in March, A7x on ipad5?
@Taf, i think you hit the issue on the head there.. these devices are not like PC`s where you keep them for a 5+ years then upgrade as they become a little behind the curve, we upgrade phones and pads faster than shoes.. never stopping to take advantage of the systems we spend the money on.