Nvidia Shows Off Its Latest Mobile Superchip, Tegra X1 with 256-core Maxwell GPU

Nvidia once again bringing the company's powerful desktop and laptop class GPU architecture to mobile. The new mobile processor, Tegra X1 is based on the Maxwell GPU architecture with 256 CUDA core Maxwell GPU.

The Tegra X1 chipset - previously codenamed as Erista - is consists of an Octa-core 64-bit CPU and 256-core GPU.  Sound Impressive? It's also capable of 1 teraflop of floating point performance, which nearly put its in the same league as desktop class GPU and current generation gaming consoles.

Image credit: NVIDIA blog. Tegra X1 running Epic's landmark "Elemental" demo.

In addition, the Tegra X1's 256-core GPU is twice as powerful as the Kepler-based Tegra K1 and is more power efficiency than its predecessor. It's also capable to support 4K videos at 60 fps, Unreal Engine 4, DirectX 12, OpenGL 4.5, OpenGL ES 3.1 and CUDA 6.0.

Although X1 is announced as a new mobile processor, it will be also used in automotive technologies. At the same time, Nvidia reveals the Drive PX - an auto-pilot car computer, powered by two Tegra X1 processor, acts as a brain for the car.

Get to know more about the Nvidia Tegra X1, kindly check out its white paper on the Nvidia's official website.

Sources: Nvidia Blog, Nvidia Tegra