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See the Nvidia K1 in action at CES 2014

2014-01-06
after Tegra 2 duel first the world's first dual core after Tegra 3 the world's first quad core and then we double the performance of that with Tegra 4 what's next for us well we decided to do was we do it's decided to make Tegra k1 the world's first 192 core processor 192 CUDA cores all programmable by the computer by the m5 programs all fully programmable all massively parallel and this is the first GPU the reason why we decided to call it Tegra k1 is because this is the first GPU that took a vast jump from the previous generation it's almost inappropriate call a Tegra 5 because it's simply not linear we decided to call a Tegra k1 we decided to call it Tegra k1 because it's based on the Kepler architecture as many of you know Kepler is the most successful GPU architecture that we have ever created and it's the most important GPU architecture the industry had ever known from a hundred and ninety two cores all the way to thirty six million cores running our nation's fastest supercomputer let me explain some of the technology behind it so first of all in order to capture the human face our skin is a living thing light penetrates through our outer layers goes into the skin bounces around inside and then scatters and it comes out picking up some of the tone of the color of your blood and as a result when you look at them it looks alive of course there's a lot of pores your eyes are the windows to the soul and so obviously the eyes have to look alive in this particular case we use a technology called ray tracing the Ray trace the eyes that's why the eye crystal looks like it's like it's alive and of course all of the shadows are being rendered so beautifully you see no triangles no faceting whatsoever triangles have disappeared the lighting system is so sophisticated we can pick up the little sheen of the oil of his face this is what this is what a state-of-the-art mobile application mobile game looks today in fact this is an applic business a game that's featured on Tegra 4 and saw Integra Zone it's a fantastic game and they're doing incredibly well however this is what last generation graphics looks like let's show them what next-generation graphics look like now let's just kind of take this in a little bit this particular image notice the trash can you see no triangles whatsoever all the faceting is gone the detail is so exquisite that when the light shines on it it looks perfectly smooth all the shadows are soft it seems like light is coming from all over it's being lit the scene is being lit in darkness there isn't one particular light that's showing up somewhere but light is bouncing all over the walls using this technology called global illumination where everything in the scene is a light source so this is by a company called frozen byte it's a it's a custom game they've made this is a first for mobile it's a really fun game it's kind of like a platformer of two and a half D but the cool thing is you have three characters so you can have your warrior guy you can switch to have a wizard and he can now remember this is a mobile device that's been blown up to this to the size of a theater okay so this is a mobile device that's been blowing through the size of a theater look at the exquisite detail and so they've used Nvidia physics actually in this so you interact and a lot of the puzzles are based on physics and you have to sort of figure out different ways and we'll see that just up here so if everyone inside now past the the beautiful sort of Egyptian statues so here we have a puzzle this one's fairly straightforward and I have played it a couple times so you can choose which character you want so I can try and reflect this beam and you know it the way the lighting follows the beam around this oh yeah oh that's hot yeah so I think I'm actually gonna use the wizard here and I'm gonna grab this this box and hit the special key and I should open the door we go now while you do while he's doing that look at the how the lighting is changing the environment everything's all lit so beautifully it's all dynamic like it's a beautiful game the artwork and this is this have you compared Tegra k1 to a couple of other well-known platforms in the world one of them is the PlayStation 3 and one of them is the Xbox 360 both of them are last generation graphics capabilities called ex9 Tegra k1 is based on dx11 but if you look at the horsepower just a raw horsepower alone the GPU has more horsepower than both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and the CPU is far in a way more powerful than both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 and all of that is made possible because mobile technology now available in just a few watts and so what you're going to have is essentially the visual richness of next generation capability but the horsepower of a game console right in your palms really really amazing so I'm super excited to introduce check we're k12 you
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