Leak: Powerful NVIDIA Tegra 4 ‘Wayne’ SoC With 2560 x 1600 Capability Using 72-Core GeForce GPU

As is always the way with these things, a leak has surfaced on the internet about NVIDIA’s upcoming Tegra 4 System on Chip (SoC) – and it looks very interesting. User Xenomorph has leaked the slide below over at the Chinese ChipHell forum which is apparently that of the upcoming Tegra 4, codenamed “Wayne”. Judging by the slide, this chip will be very powerful and targeted at “superphones, tablets and clamshells” helping NVIDIA to fight the likes of Samsung, Qualcomm and Apple.

Tegra 4 is a combined CPU & GPU like its predessors. The CPU is likely to be based on ARM’s latest Cortex A15 design and built on 28nm technology, which is around twice as powerful as previous versions and will feature four cores with a fifth “battery saver” core for light usage tasks.

However, the GeForce branded GPU is more interesting, since it supports a massive 2560 x 1600 maximum resolution which is the same maximum as current desktop GPUs. On top of this, it can do this at an astonishing 120Hz refresh rate! To ensure that the screen is updated quickly enough to be useable, it will feature 72 cores for processing muscle. This amount of graphics power is around 20 times that of Tegra 2, or 6 times that of Tegra 3 – a significant and exciting advance. It looks like the GPU will even go as high as 4K video if the slide is to be believed. Finally, the chip is to support fast USB 3.0 and low power DDR3 memory.

As always with leaks like this, the details should be treated with some skepticism until the official announcement or its confirmed by multiple sources nearer the release date.