The NVIDIA Tegra 3 chip has been the lifeblood of a number of successful Android tablets and the Surface RT. The SoC with a quad-core CPU plus 12 GPU cores, has made possible light tablets with an enormous power like the Nexus 7 itself, best tablet of the year. Well now we know more about his successor thanks to a leak. NVIDIA Tegra 4 will have 72 graphics cores. Yes, you read it right.
De Wayne, the code name that has been used in its development process, we had already heard a few things. We even had a leak which described its power as ten times faster than Tegra 2 and twice as fast as Tegra 3. This same source said that we will see it at CES 2013 in Las Vegas in January.
Now another leak has been given on the China forum, Chiphell, with a graphic that lets us see their internal characteristics and they are honestly a scandal. Will have a Quad core CPU, rather kind 4 PLUS 1, that is to say four powerful plus one small auxiliary for simple tasks that do not require power, this is the same architecture as the previous evolution. However, these will no longer be ARMv7 but will be A15 like the two cores that we find in the Samsung Nexus 10 CPU. But now the impressive thing comes and is that the GPU, the graphics processor, will have 72 cores, this is 6 times more than Tegra 3.
This graphic conglomerate will support screens with resolutions 2560 x 1600 pixels and will be able to decode video at 1440p. Will have support for USB 3.0 and a high-performance imaging chip. It will have a dual channel to support memory DDR3L.
The codename for this SoC comes from Batman, actually Bruce Wayne and it is said that, continuing with the borrowed superhero names, he will be followed by Logan, Wolverine, and Stark (Iron Man).
We can see Tegra 4 in January at CES and maybe a prototype at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a month later, but models are not expected for sale with this hardware until the third quarter of 2013 at the earliest.
Source: Slashgear