During its press conference held at the wake of the Consumer Electronics Show 2015 in Las Vegas, Nvidia has unveiled its newest mobile system-on-chip (SoC), the Tegra X1. Previously known as the Erista, the Tegra X1 is a 20nm SoC with 1 teraflop of floating point performance.

The new Nvidia Tegra X1 is based on an octa-core 64-bit design featuring four Cortex-A57 and four Cortex-A53 cores paired up with a 256-core Maxwell GPU, which is twice as powerful compared to the Kepler GPU in the Tegra K1. According to Nvidia, the Tegra X1 is DirectX 12 compatible and is the most power efficient SOC ever that will be available for tablets and automotive market.

According to Nvidia, the Tegra X1 is not only faster than the Apple A8X but also brings console experience while using 10W of power, compared to over 100W on the Xbox One. Nvidia also noted that the Tegra X1 can run 4K video at 60FPS and on 10-bit precision and supports all the latest H.265 and VP9 video codecs.

Nvidia demoed the Tegra X1 for automotive industry but for now, Nvidia was not ready to reveal any details regarding design wins and actual products. Of course, Nvidia is aiming to counter Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 810 with the Tegra X1.



Source: Nvidia.com.