During Hot Chips symposium held at Cupertino Flint Center, Nvidia has revealed much more details regarding its first custom CPU design, or precisely, Denver-based 64-bit Tegra K1 SOC.


Back when Nvidia Tegra K1 SoC was announced, Nvidia revealed that this SoC will be available in two versions, with 32-bit quad-core Cortex-A15 CPU part as well as with dual-core 64-bit Denver CPUs.




According to Nvidia, "Denver is designed for the highest single-core CPU throughput, and also delivers industry-leading dual-core performance. Each of the two Denver cores implements a 7-way superscalar microarchitecture (up to 7 concurrent micro-ops can be executed per clock), and includes a 128KB 4-way L1 instruction cache, a 64KB 4-way L1 data cache, and a 2MB 16-way L2 cache, which services both cores."




In addition to praising the CPU part of the new 64-bit TK1 SoC, Nvidia also claimed that this is the "world's first 64-bit ARM processor for Android" which will bring console class graphics. With the same 192 Kepler cores GPU as the 32-bit version of the chip, we are quite sure that it will have a decent amount of GPU power.

Nvidia also claims that Denver performance will rival some mainstream PC-class CPUs at significantly lower power consumption which is definitely a bold claim. Of course, it depends on which CPU you are actually comparing it to but considering Nvidia's slide, this might be a rather neat design.

According to Nvidia, the new 64-bit Denver-based TK1 equipped devices should be available later this year and is now focused on optimizing it for Google's Android L OS. In any case, this SoC will definitely be a game changer, at least if Nvidia's bold claims are true.



Source: Techreport.com.