curl-6 said:
elektranine said:
You do know that the Tegra K1 is used in zero smartphones. There is a reason smartphone manufacturers stay away from all of Nvidia's mobile stuff lately. They can see through all of Nvidia's marketing hogwash. Nvidia badly wants into the mobile market but Qualcomm is king. Basically the only devices running Nvidia's mobile chipsets is Nvidia along with a token tablet here or there from other companies. There is no reaching 326 gigaflops in the real world that is with active cooling and an active power supply. And even Nvidia's own tablets have this really weird short battery life even shorter than laptops (2-3 hours for gaming). 
Look at this thing it is huge. Its the size of a small motherboard. Its basically a scaled down laptop gpu with a quadcore arm cpu thrown in. Nobody is using this.
And you bring up DirectX. I don't see why, OpenGL is king when it comes to graphics. OpenGL is used in the vast majority of graphical applications and its supported by more hardware than DX ever was. Just because MS tries to force people to upgrade their OS by not updating the features of their API doesn't mean OpenGL has to do the same. OpenGL and their legacy support is really top notch and feature wise there is only a small subset of what you cant do on the PS3 versus with modern hardware.
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Tegra K1 is used in the nvidia shield tablet, that is a mobile device, and that was in 2014.
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Lol that is sort akin to running your own lemonade stand and going "Ya I finally sold my first glass of lemonade..... my mommy bought some".
Bottom line no serious manufacturer has used Nvidia's parts in recent times. The shield "tablet" is not a tablet at all but really their attempt at a console. The battery life for the thing is extemely short (2-3 hours) so it has to be plugged in for any serious use. Even Nvidia's newer X1 chip has no instrustry support but might get a release as a optional addon for a luxury car dashboard sometime this year. The thing probably requires even more power than the K1. And both the X1 and K1 like the A80 use this odd gluing of two different cpus together in order to get more cores/performance.
