NVIDIA Tegra K1 Processor: 192-Core SuperChip Deemed The World’s Fastest GPU For Mobile Bear Suspicious Claims, Game Programmer Warns Take Promises ‘With Several Grains Of Salt’

NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor: The 192-core SuperChip by NVIDIA, which many hails as a unit that bears the fastest GPU and brings it to mobile, allegedly has some suspicious claims in terms of its potential performance. In a report by ExtremeTech, it noted that famous game programmer John Carmack says that Nvidia’s statements on its newest chipset should be taken “with several grains of salt.”

“Take Nvidia’s comparison between their K1 SoC and consoles with several grains of salt,” John Carmack tweeted.

ExtremeTech said that it’s a fairly strong statement for a game developer to make, particularly with Carmack’s influence.

NVIDIA unveiled the Tegra K1 processor at the Consumer Electronics Show with many impressive claims about its performance and underlying architecture. The manufacturer known for its chipset for gaming has also said that the Tegra K1 would debut in two different parts, the quad-core Cortex-A15r3 and a dual-core 64-bit chip that support ARM’s 64-bit instruction set.

Below are what could seem like claims or promises NVIDIA makes about its newest chipset based on the Tegra K1 whitepaper.

“A vast majority of Xbox 360 and PS3 titles could be easily ported to Tegra K1 devices with minimal effort, delivering similar visual quality and gameplay experience,” it writes. ExtremeTech said that the company has claimed that the Tegra K1 is substantially more powerful than last-generation consoles and has trotted out charts like what the tech site posted below to prove it.

ExtremeTech noted that the Tegra K1’s FLOPS count is much higher than the Xbox 360 or PS3, but its texture fill rate and memory bandwidth are both much smaller. The new chipset’s architecture is very much different and more efficient than older console chips, and DX11 has introduced some efficiency-boosting capabilities that DX9 simply didn’t have.

Whether the most lofty claims of NVIDIA on its Tegra K1 chipset becomes a reality or not, what it potentially offers is still far bigger than what is currently available.