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  • MWC 2013: Nvidia Shows smartphone ‘Phoenix’

    Nvidia might make your next smartphone. The Nvidia Phoenix – pictured here – is a reference phone for the time being, but the company has already shown it’s not afraid to make its own kit with Project Shield and now it could be setting its sights on the smartphone and tablet market.

    Nvidia is keeping schtum about the particulars, but reckons that with its components facing tougher market conditions (the unlikely phrases ‘increasingly vertical’ and ‘commoditisation’ were used) a move to make its own smartphones and tablets will pay off in the long run.

    While won’t be able to grab of these devices, be sure you you take a good look at the Phoenix, as it’s going to be a while before we see anything else like it. Nonetheless, this reference design rocks the NVIDIA Tegra 4i, which we’ve most recently seen it tearing the competition to pieces in some recently released benchmarks.

    While the Phoenix itself isn’t for the end consumer, it certainly doesn’t mean that we don’t want one. The device shows off just what the NVIDIA Tegra 4 can do, and that’s good enough for us. The reference design ships with a 5 inch 1080p HD display, 13 megapixel camera, and more.

    The Tegra 4 family is leaps and bounds more powerful than the NVIDIA Tegra 3, and will offer up some great native features, like always-on HDR.

  • MWC 2013: NVIDIA shows off 5 new Tegra 4 optimized games

    MWC 2013: NVIDIA shows off 5 new Tegra 4 optimized games

    With the announcement of the new Tegra 4 processor and devices, NVIDIA is looking to showcase what it is capable of by highlighting 5 new Tegra 4 optimized games in TegraZone. Burn Zombie Burn, Carie: Blood Mansion, CODEX: The Warrior, Dead on Arrival 2 and RU Golf have all been updated with enhanced graphics to show off just what makes Tegra 4 so much more appealing over other processors when it comes to playing games. NVIDIA is well known for partnering with game developers to release these high-end titles via the TegraZone, and these will kick it off for Tegra 4.

    More about Tegra 4

    Burn Zombie Burn

    Developer: Tick Tock Games

    Burn Zombie Burn blasts onto the mobile scene for the first time with fast-paced, console-quality action that has you striving to survive against a never-ending horde of zombies. With a slew of weapons available for your zombie-blasting pleasure, you’ll master the art of eradicating the undead.

     

    Carie: Blood Mansion

    Developer & Publisher: Neowiz

    Tegra device users will get an exclusive map in Carie: Blood Mansion, with even more immersive graphics on Tegra 4 devices. You’ll guide Carie through bloody battles in this action adventure title. Keep an eye on the high-res textures, enhanced physics simulations and optimized fire and smoke effects in the below video.

     

    CODEX: The Warrior

    CODEX: The Warrior.

    Head-to-head fighting in this RPG title shows off what Tegra 4 is capable of with HDR (High Dynamic Range) lighting throughout.

     

    Dead on Arrival 2

    Dead on Arrival 2.

    A follow-up to the original, Dead on Arrival 2 adds full map destruction and high resolution models.

     

    RU Golf

    Developer & Publisher: Nutgee

    RU Golf swung onto the mobile scene last year for Tegra 3-powered devices and will follow through with Tegra 4. Experience mano-a-mano multiplayer online battles with dynamic specular lighting, soft shadows, and bloom and lens flare effects. With various levels and character customizing features, get ready to tee off with RU Golf.

    As you can see from the games above, there’s a lot to look forward to. Now we’ll just patiently (or impatiently) wait for Tegra 4 devices to arrive so we can promptly throw our cash at these upcoming titles!

  • NVIDIA Tegra 4: Quad-core Cortex A15, 72 GPU cores, LTE support

    The chip, which retains the same 4-plus-1 arrangement of its predecessor, arrives with a whopping 72 GeForce GPU cores — effectively offering six times the Tegra 3’s visual output and is based on the 28nm process. It also is the first quad-core processor with Cortex A15 cores on-board, and offers compatibility with LTE networks through an optional chip. NVIDIA claims this piece of silicon is the world’s fastest mobile processor, and showed a demonstration in which a Tegra 4 went head-to-head against a Nexus 10 in loading websites (you can guess which one won).

    The Tegra 4 also introduces new computational photography architecture, which adds a new engine to drive the image processing and significantly improve the amount of time it takes to calculate the necessary mathematics 10 times faster than current platforms. To show off its power, NVIDIA demonstrated HDR rendering on live video. The chip is also capable of implementing HDR in burst shots and with LED flash. The idea, NVIDIA says, is to eventually make our mobile cameras more powerful than DSLRs, and this is certainly a step in the right direction.

    The Tegra 4 will also enable 4K ultra high-definition video support, as well as PRISM 2 display tech that claims to reduce the power used by the backlight. Doing so will result in a 45 percent decrease in power consumption when compared to Tegra 3.

    Announced alongside the Tegra 4 was the i500 Soft Modem, which is essentially a reprogrammable baseband solution that is capable of utilizing a wide variety of networks. The chip, which is an optional addendum to the Tegra 4 platform to enable LTE support, is able to process 1.2 trillion operations per second and is 40 percent the size of a conventional baseband chip.