NVIDIA wants to bring Kepler desktop GPUs to future "superphones"

6. Dr.Phil posted on 23 Mar 2012, 16:23 2 0

And you know this because...? If they built a chipset like the Kepler it would easily beat the SGX543MP2. In fact, Qualcomm will be able to beat that with the Adreno 320 this year along with the Mali t-604 that Samsung should have on their Galaxy device. Both of those chipsets could actually beat out the MP4 as well. So, I don't think it would be hard for nVidia to beat out the MP2, or the MP4 for that matter, within the next year.

8. jove39 posted on 23 Mar 2012, 19:57 0 0

Well...I am not saying its impossible for Nvidia to beat any gpu out there...they have regained crown with "GeForce GTX 680". If nvidia's target was to beat 543MP2...they could have easily done it with Tegra3...but they didn't...why?

9. Dr.Phil posted on 23 Mar 2012, 20:55 1 0

Well I think we have to put things into perspective. PowerVR has been making SGX GPUs since 2005 and nVidia really entered the market this past year with Tegra 2 (though they did play an earlier role in developing some mobile chipsets but not much). So, I think that as nVidia as well as other manufacturers are starting to master putting smaller and more efficient chipsets into these devices, they will also start to learn how to make better performing chipsets as well. Don't get me wrong, PowerVR is a great company that has really pioneered the mobile GPU market and still does to this day, but the other companies are starting to learn and are going to really start to compete with PowerVR. It also does help that PowerVR was the first to use TBDR technology and I think still to this day are the only ones to use it (though I may be wrong). It is interesting to see that these companies are playing catch up to a GPU that was made in 2009 (the MP2) and 2010 (the MP4), but I think you will see in this next year with the Mali t-658 and Adreno 3xx series GPUs coming out that it will really heat up the competition. And I am confident that nVidia will release a GPU that will at least match the performance of an MP4. I think they were just mainly rushing to be the first quad-core mobile devices on the market and didn't really plan out their chipsets.

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7. sgtdisturbed47 posted on 23 Mar 2012, 17:13 2 0

nVidia back in 2006 called it very correctly by saying that cell phones would be the next great gaming machine. So far, they are. Games play beautifully on cell phones these days, and nVidia plays a huge part in that. Kepler deserves a smartphone port.