Traditional PCs are still miles ahead of phones and tablets in terms of graphics performance, but Nvidia is hoping to narrow the gap with a mobile version of its Kepler GPU architecture.
Kepler debuted over a year ago for desktops and laptops. Now, Nvidia says mobile devices will be able to enjoy some of the same capabilities, such as DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.4, tessellation and CUDA 5.0. In other words, Tegra-powered tablets of the future will be able to offe morer advanced lighting, realistic physics, and more efficient effects such as motion blur and depth of field. Nvidia says it's a milestone on par with the launch of its first GPU, the GeForce 256, 14 years ago.
Even better, mobile Kepler promises potent power efficiency as well. According to Nvidia, its GPU can perform the same rendering as an iPad 4 while using less than one third of the power. That gives Nvidia plenty of room to scale graphics performance up without turning tablets into battery hogs.
Nvidia is showing off mobile Kepler's capabilities in a couple of demos.
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