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Nvidia officially unveils next-generation Tegra 4 SoC

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Re: Nvidia officially unveils next-generation Tegra 4 SoC

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Post by sciwiz »

jpxxx wrote: post #7

That was effortlessly the worst keynote I have ever sat through, with the added bonus of a grotesque "gamer babe" interlude that saw a married 49 year old CEO pretending to hit on a model at a tiki bar. Rancid 1993 puke. All that said, their Shield handheld console looks pretty spectacular, if vaporous. 5" ~retinesque~ touchscreen clamshelled onto a full-size game controller with all the bells and whistles. Outrageou…

Available Q2 it seems. Also more details on the SoC from Anandtech: 4 Cortex A15 on 28nm HPL (28nm low power with high-k + metal gates) running at up to 1.9 GHz and a fifth A15 core for low power work.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6550/more-details-on-nvidias-t...

Re: Nvidia officially unveils next-generation Tegra 4 SoC

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Post by ulyssesgrant »

jpxxx wrote: post #7

That was effortlessly the worst keynote I have ever sat through, with the added bonus of a grotesque "gamer babe" interlude that saw a married 49 year old CEO pretending to hit on a model at a tiki bar. Rancid 1993 puke. All that said, their Shield handheld console looks pretty spectacular, if vaporous. 5" ~retinesque~ touchscreen clamshelled onto a full-size game controller with all the bells and whistles. Outrageou…

Haha, I agree that the keynote was at times extremely awkward and hard to sit through, but I have to say I enjoyed how casual it was. Compared to something like an Apple presentation, where it seems like there's 0 room for error or for tangents, this felt more "real".

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Post by majormajor »

ricardobeat wrote: post #3

Real-time HDR is great! Hope everyone gets in that bandwagon. At some point HDR processing should become part of the hardware pipeline in every sensor, and we'll simply have a selectable dynamic range.

I just want higher dynamic range screens.

Re: Nvidia officially unveils next-generation Tegra 4 SoC

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Post by wmf »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #9
jitl wrote: post #2

Nvidia will save us from Intel in the long run. Intel just doesn't get multi-core processors.

Ok, that made me chuckle. Intel absolutely understands multi-core, what they don't yet 'get' is third party access to the inner works. Its interesting to watch nVidia because they have been on the receiving end of that sort of squeeze (front side bus patents and all that) and so they tend to lean toward that as a strategy, whereas other ARM processor houses don't seem quite so focused on locking down all of the silic…

I would say Intel/Infineon is ahead of Nvidia/Icera. At least the Infineon baseband has had some design wins.

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Post by [deleted] »

frozenport wrote: post #10
ricardobeat wrote: post #3

Real-time HDR is great! Hope everyone gets in that bandwagon. At some point HDR processing should become part of the hardware pipeline in every sensor, and we'll simply have a selectable dynamic range.

You made my postmodern sense tingle! I have noticed more and more cameras implementing automatic color correction resulting in orange people and color changes while filming the same scene. I think HDR looks unnatural.

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Post by frozenport »

jitl wrote: post #2

Nvidia will save us from Intel in the long run. Intel just doesn't get multi-core processors.

Wow!

If Intel doesn't get multi-core I wonder how well a design firm that makes chips designed for the rendering pipline fair? What kind of load balancing does CUDA offer? Didn't they implement recursion a few weeks back? Scalar stream processor smacks of the Cray 1.

Intel's lack of understanding has enabled it to catch 75% of market share. 2 years ago Intel demonstrated their understanding by increasing clock-speed when AMD dumped more cores onto their CPUs creating the underwhelming Interlagos.

Re: Nvidia officially unveils next-generation Tegra 4 SoC

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Post by jpxxx »

ulyssesgrant wrote: post #12
jpxxx wrote: post #7

That was effortlessly the worst keynote I have ever sat through, with the added bonus of a grotesque "gamer babe" interlude that saw a married 49 year old CEO pretending to hit on a model at a tiki bar. Rancid 1993 puke. All that said, their Shield handheld console looks pretty spectacular, if vaporous. 5" ~retinesque~ touchscreen clamshelled onto a full-size game controller with all the bells and whistles. Outrageou…

Haha, I agree that the keynote was at times extremely awkward and hard to sit through, but I have to say I enjoyed how casual it was. Compared to something like an Apple presentation, where it seems like there's 0 room for error or for tangents, this felt more "real".

It was thoroughly amateur. The host/CEO was leaden, the pacing was all over the place, anything involving women was grotesque, it was full of meaningless and half-hearted digressions, nothing shown was placed into an industry context, and their livestream offered an unskippable chat box that was mostly "U FAGGOTS" and "BRING THAT GIRL BACK".

Demo example: "Here are the guys who made the game Hawken." Who? What company? What is Hawken? What does this game mean for the industry? How is it showing off your product in the best light? What does this mean for developers?

No, none of that gets answered. Two cameras drill in through shitty sightlines at three anonymous men playing a game in silence while Jen-Hsun Huang asks things like "where are you guys at right now?" and "so what are you doing?"

Re: Nvidia officially unveils next-generation Tegra 4 SoC

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Post by ricardobeat »

frozenport wrote: post #10
ricardobeat wrote: post #3

Real-time HDR is great! Hope everyone gets in that bandwagon. At some point HDR processing should become part of the hardware pipeline in every sensor, and we'll simply have a selectable dynamic range.

You made my postmodern sense tingle! I have noticed more and more cameras implementing automatic color correction resulting in orange people and color changes while filming the same scene. I think HDR looks unnatural.

HDR can look as natural as you want. You're probably thinking of burnt-out crazy over-saturated flickr shots like this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yury-prokopenko/3561920871/ligh...

Or this (beyond terrible):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nik-on/4624961812/

But that's the photographer's fault. HDR is just a way of compensating for lack of dynamic range in a sensor. Used correctly it should make the image more real, not less, by bringing it closer to the human eye's full dynamic range. Examples:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/margall69/7496881548/lightbox/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/frankspecht/4954970921/lightbox... (snow and sky would be completely blown out without HDR)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelgcumming/4525129653/ligh...

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