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Nvidia is promising to bring PC-class performance to tablet and mobile devices thanks to its new quad-core Tegra 3 processor.
The Tegra 3 provides up to three times the graphics performance of Tegra 2 and up to 61 per cent lower power consumption. The Tegra 3 processor implements a new, patent-pending technology known as Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing (vSMP), which includes a fifth CPU companion specifically designed to use little power.
Complementing the Tegra 3 quad-core CPU is a new 12-core Nvidia GeForce GPU, which promises to deliver more realism with dynamic lighting, physical effects and high resolution environments, plus support for 3D.
The Tegra 3 processor provides the industry’s…
- Fastest web experience – with accelerated Adobe Flash Player 11, HTML5 and WebGL browsing, and an optimized Javascript engine
- Fastest applications – with blazing performance for multimedia apps, such as photo and video editing
- Fastest multitasking – for switching between common uses, such as playing music and games, and background tasks
- Fastest, highest-quality gaming – including new Tegra 3 processor-optimized NVIDIA Tegra Zone app games such as Shadowgun, Riptide GP, Sprinkle, Big Top THD, Bladeslinger, DaVinci THD and Chidori.
The world’s first quad-core tablet with the Tegra 3 processor will be the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime.
Jun Takeuchi, deputy head of Consumer Games at Capcom, commented: “Nvidia’s GPU architecture delivers the best gaming experience, bringing true console-quality games to mobile devices. Our Lost Planet 2 test demo makes it clear – the quad-core muscle of Tegra 3 brings hyper-realistic visuals, smooth frame rates and sharp images. The result is a whole new level of realism to content for smartphones and tablets.”
It’s not known when the Tegra 3 will be available to hardware manufacturers.
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