NVIDIA Tegra X1 Announced At CES 2015

NVIDIA today announced an update to its highly successful Tegra K1 mobile processor that was announced just last year. The new NVIDIA Tegra X1 (TX1) combines an 8-core 64-bit ARM based processor with a 256-core GPU based on the companys Maxwell architecture. The original Tegra K1 used NVIDIA’s older Kepler GPU technology. The NVIDIA Tegra X1 supports 4Kp60 10-bit H.265/VP9 video and is both more powerful and energy efficient than any other Tegra mobile processor. In fact the NVIDIA Tegra X1 is the first TERAFLOP mobile processor by any company according to NVIDIA. The Tegra X1 is the first mobile GPU that has 16-bit floating point and the floating point throughput of the Tegra X1 exceeds 1 Teraflops of power. Should we mention that this processor consumes 10 Watts full out? That should be of concern to companies like Qualcomm! The NVIDIA Tegra X1 is said to be twice as fast as the old NVIDIA Tegra K1, which is a pretty damn impressive performance gain for 12 months. The NVIDIA Tegra K1 mobile processor from last year has 192 graphics cores and topped out at around 364.79 GFlops when it came to single precision peak performance. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said that Tegra X1 was the world’s first mobile super chip.

NVIDIA showed off some benchmark numbers along with an Unreal Engine 4 demo that looks amazing.

The NVIDIA Tegra X1 will certainly raise the bar with one can expect when it comes to high-end mobile processing. NVIDIA also has plans to get the Tegra X1 embraced by the automotive market as this SoC would be killer in an infotainment system! The processing power of X1 will be used for a new automotive system called ‘NVIDIA Drive CX,’ which will turn one’s car into a supercomputer.

The full NVIDIA press release for the NVIDIA TX1 can be found here.

We’ll bring you more from the NVIDIA press conference in a bit!