NVIDIA officially announces Tegra 4 with 4 CPU cores and 72 GPU cores

NVIDIA has just officially announced its latest Next-Gen mobile processor, the NVIDIA Tegra 4 codenamed "Wayne". NVIDIA claims that the Tegra 4 is the world's fastest mobile processor, yet.

The Tegra 4 packs 4 ARM Cortex-A15 CPU cores [4PLUS1], along with an extra second-generation battery saver core, similar to Tegra 3. The CPU performance is said to be 2.6x that of Tegra 3. It also includes 72 GeForce GPU cores, 6x faster than the previous Tegra 3.

Along with being able to run apps and games faster, this also brings the ability to playback 4K content which is first for a mobile processor.

NVIDIA Tegra 4 Key Features:

• GeForce GPU with 72 custom cores.

• Quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU, plus a 2nd Generation Battery Saver Core.

• Computational Photography Architecture.

• LTE capability with optional Icera i500 chipset.

• 4K ultra-high-def video support.

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