The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is now in full swing in
Las Vegas and there are already a number of brands that have announced their
current projects for the world to see. NVIDIA is one of the companies that made
the biggest announcement today with its new Tegra X1 super chip and Drive CX
platform for cars.
The Tegra X1 is the company’s newest mobile processor for
2015 and is said to be capable of achieving 1 teraflop of floating point
performance, which basically means that it can match the performance of desktop
GPUs and current generation gaming consoles. The chip features a new octa-core
CPU comprising of four Cortex A57 and four Cortex A53 cores.
The chip uses the company’s current Maxwell GPU architecture
featuring 256 CUDA cores, which offer twice the power as the Kepler-based K1
from last year. Moreover, the X1 comes with a 64-bit wide LPDDR4 memory,
support for 4K resolution, and support for all major graphic standards. These
include Unreal Engine 4, DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.5, CUDA, OpenGL ES 3.1 and the
Android Extension pack.
On a related note, NVIDIA plans to use the X1 on various
applications including on automobiles through its Drive CX platform. This will
use two X1 processors and 12 onboard cameras to provide a multitude of features
including automatic parking, various infotainment functions and even driver
monitoring.
