Gadgetory

what's up guys david here for farm boy fan earlier this week I had a chance to swing by the end video booth at CES 2014 to take a closer look at the brand new processor they announced in the Tegra k1 now technically the k1 is the successor to the TECA 4 that we saw last year but for whatever reason Nvidia opted not to call it the Tegra 5 like you would expect and instead is calling it the k1 which is probably a good idea by Nvidia because right off the bat the k1 name tells you that this new chip isn't just an upgrade over to TECA 4 and instead at least for NVIDIA it may very well be a game changer so the CPU inside this thing is a 4 core CPU capable of being clocked at up to 2.3 gigahertz with an additional core or a companion core for low energy tasks such as when your phone is on standby or if you're just using your phone or tablet for something that doesn't require a lot of power like reading an article on a webpage now obviously when you need more power the k1 is gonna kick on additional cores one by one up to a maximum of four so that way you have a good balance between performance and battery life but as interesting as all that sounds it wasn't the CPU that really got me excited about the k1 and it's not what really drew me to the booth at CES and instead it was the GPU that really caught my eye now this new GPU is based off the Kepler architecture which is probably why they named it the k1 but this architecture is a first on a mobile ship and is what you typically find on a desktop class CPU which means you get support for things like DirectX 11 OpenGL 4.4 and NVIDIA zone could of course 6 now that's ND 192 CUDA cores that this GPU has will most likely combine to give you really really good graphics and gaming performance so much so that Nvidia went as far as saying that the k1 can either match or surpass the performance on the last gen consoles like the xbox 360 or the ps3 now I don't know what you guys but I've been playing GTA 5 recently on my xbox 360 and I think the graphics look really really good so having graphics like that on a tablet on a phone would be just right amazing but of course the challenge is actually getting games ported over to Android that can actually take full advantage of the ke ones power because right now the games on Android won't even come close but Nvidia does say that the game developers will have an easier time porting the games over because of the Kepler architectures that the GPU is based off of now I think the determining factor in all of this as far as ice getting games ported over to Android isn't necessarily the k1 itself but instead how popular the k1 becomes because if the k1 is anything like the Tegra 4 that we saw last year which this wasn't adopted widely by manufacturers and never really became mainstream then game developers won't have any incentive to port their games over but if the k1 does become popular and it's adopted by a big manufacturer like Sony HTC Samsung or someone similar then game developers just may have enough incentive to do that and that in and of itself can very well change the future of gaming on Android so the NVIDIA Tegra k1 could very well be a game changer quite literally but anyways that's pretty much it for me in this video if you liked it please give it a thumbs up and make sure you hit that subscribe button for more mobile technology videos just like this thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the very next video