CES 2013: Nvidia unveils the next-gen Tegra chip that will power future Android smartphones and tablets
6x the graphics performance of its predecessor
Chip specialist Nvidia has used this year's Consumer Electronics Show to unveil its next-generation Tegra mobile processor.
Nvidia's Tegra 4 is said to boast six times the graphics performance of its predecessor, thanks to a whopping 72 graphics-dedicated cores.
Again, that's six times the number of cores found on the Tegra 3, which powers a range of current Android smartphones and tablets, such as the Nexus 7.
The Tegra 4 chip will maintain the Tegra 3's four-plus-one quad-core design, but will arrive packing ARM's new Cortex A15 architecture and support for 4G LTE.
Nvidia's current-gen Tegra doesn't support this increasingly popular mobile broadband standard. The fact that the Tegra 3 chip doesn't support 4G is a major limitation for the devices that are powered by it.
According to Nvidia, its new chip is powerful enough to fuel resolutions of up to 2560x1600, and pump out 1080p-quality visuals at an impressive 120Hz.
And, yes, it is apparently more powerful than the A6X processor that powers Apple's fourth-gen iPad. There, are you happy now?
IGN