NVIDIA has displayed 64 Bit Processor for Android ecosystem .It’s a good news for the Android Users and Manufacturers. Recently a leaked Google Nexus tablet is rumored to be consisting NVIDIA Tegra Processor, so may be that tablet will use NVIDIA’s 64 Bit Processor.
NVIDIA has provided some details on “Denver” Tegra K1 which is expected to be the 64 bit processor designed for the Android devices. It’s calling it “the world’s first 64-bit ARM processor for Android.” It will have four Denver CPU cores and 192 Kepler graphics cores, which Nvidia says will provide PC-like performance for laptops, tablets and high-end smartphones.
NVIDIA itself says, “People rarely use computers for just one thing at a time. We might be browsing multiple websites while streaming audio and running productivity apps. Tegra K1’s quad-core CPU has more cores available than the majority of Chromebook processors, so you can run all your favorite tasks without missing a beat.”
The K1 will employ a three-tiered cache structure with a 128KB 4-way L1 instruction cache, a 64KB 4-way L1 data cache, and a 2MB 16-way L2 cache accessible to both cores.
The 64-bit Tegra K1 outperforms the 32-bit version by between 100 percent and 300 percent depending on the task at hand, according to Boggs.
