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NVIDIA Updates Tegra Roadmap – Logan and Parker on the way

NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang took to the stage today at the GTC conference’s keynote and touched on many things, including some items of interest to mobile users. Of course, we’re mostly interested in the mobile space, so we were pretty excited to see Huang introduce an updated Tegra roadmap. While we’ve still yet to see a Tegra 4 or Tegra 4i device available in stores, we now have two more code names for upcoming NVIDIA prodcuts to look forward to: Logan and Parker. Logan is going to kick some serious Read more

Fast-Paced FPS The Conduit To Debut on Android With Tegra 3 Optimization

An awesome Tegra 3 enhanced fast paced First Person Shooter, The Conduit, will be making its debut on Android devices today. You may be familiar with the title, it was released on the Wii a few years ago to much fanfare, and winning a number of awards at E3 in 2008. Now, NVIDIA is releasing a Tegra 3 optimized version to the Android game market, showcasing the power of the company’s chipset. The Conduit is a FPS that is set in near future America, where players are confronted with a hostile alien race, known Read more

Ian Kersey

Tegra 3 Optimized Real Boxing Steps Into Google Play Store, Delivers KO

Ding Ding! NVIDIA has entered the ring, and is about to deliver a KO to the Android gaming world. Real Boxing, NVIDIA’s new offering through the TegraZone, is a 3d- hyper realistic boxing game that delivers gorgeous graphics and smooth gameplay. The Tegra 3 optimized title shows us the power of NVIDIA’s chipset by delivering graphics that are truly above the standards of contemporary mobile games. Real Boxing isn’t all about slugging it out in the ring, either. The game offers a full career mode and mini-games that allow gamers to take a break from Read more

Ian Kersey

Riptide GP 2 shown off on NVIDIA Project SHIELD

NVIDIA’s latest blog post continues to show off the Project Shield, effectively making us swoon as it tends to do. The latest game showcased on the powerful portable gaming console is Riptide GP 2, the follow-up to one of the most fun and addicting games we’ve ever played. The Tegra-optimized version of Riptide GP was already rather stunning when it came to graphics, but you can bet your ass that the game looks ridiculous (in an awesome way) on the Tegra 4-toting Project SHIELD. While you’ll eventually find Riptide GP Read more

MWC 2013: NVIDIA booth tour

Unsurprisingly, NVIDIA put a strong emphasis on Tegra 4 at this year’s Mobile World Congress. And while we still wait to see the first device relying on the new processor — which will be made by ZTE — the company offered us perspective on some of their plans, touting the Tegra 4 as the best mobile CPU ever. And I must say that the demo games that were on display do look amazing. We do look forward to see NVIDIA getting back to the game and once again getting a Read more

MWC 2013: Hands-on with the NVIDIA Phoenix, the Tega 4i-toting reference design

While you won’t be able to grab of these devices, be sure you you take a good look at the Phoenix, as it’s going to be a while before we see anything else like it. This reference design rocks the NVIDIA Tegra 4i, which we’ve most recently seen it’s “i”-less brother tearing the competition to pieces in some recently released benchmarks. While the Phoenix itself isn’t for the end consumer, it certainly doesn’t mean that we don’t want one. The device shows off just what the NVIDIA Tegra 4i can Read more

MWC 2013: NVIDIA announces five new kick ass Tegra 4 games

Today NVIDIA announced five new titles that will be offered up on Tegra 4 devices, and will show the world what the new world of mobile gaming will look like. The upcoming titles include  Burn Zombie Burn, Carie: Blood Mansion, CODEX: The Warrior, Dead on Arrival 2, and RU Golf. The new games will be able to take advantage of the Tegra 4′s powerful processor and insane graphics processing units, bringing a new level of mobile gaming we just haven’t seen before. From your hardcore action Zombie killing title, to a more casual Read more

NVIDIA Tegra 4i and Phoenix reference design highlighted on video

We may not be seeing any devices with the new NVIDIA Tegra 4 that will launch anytime soon at Mobile World Congress this year, but the company recently highlighted some of the exciting new features that both the Tegra 4 family and the Phoenix reference design will bring to the market. The NVIDIA Tegra 4i is one hell of an SoC that will bring a new level of performance to devices that we use. We’ll be seeing the Project Shield with the Tegra 4 in the coming months, and ZTE Read more

NVIDIA Tegra 4 Benchmarks Lay Waste to Competition

At MWC in Barcelona, NVIDIA released some new benchmarks for their Tegra 4 family of processors,which are promising to bring some extreme improvements to the way smartphone and tablet processors function. So far, according to the benchmarks, the Tegra 4 is blowing away the competition. The processors are not on the market yet, but exist in developer kits and designs, and should be available for the market later this year. As you can tell from the benchmarks below, the Tegra 4 and 4i are running laps around the iPhone A6 Read more

Ian Kersey

ZTE partners with NVIDIA to bring first Tegra 4 devices with Icera i500 to the world

Today ZTE announced a partnership with NVIDIA to produce the world’s first Tegra 4-powered super phones.  The upcoming devices will be utilizing NVIDIA’s Icera i500 LTE modem, alongside the blazing fast CPU and 72 core GPU found on the SoC. Now the question is when and where, is it not? Well, your answer is the first half of 2013, and in China. It will likely take a while before we see a few Tegra 4 handsets to land in the US, as we haven’t seen many notable high-end ZTE-made handsets Read more

NVIDIA announces Tegra 4i – Project Grey just got real

We still don’t have our first NVDIA Tegra 4 devices available yet, but the company has just announced a new part of the Tegra family, the Tegra 4i. The new SoC now has full Icera integration, along with all the other powerful goodness of the Tegra 4. NVIDIA announced that it would be acquiring Icera in May 2011, but we’ve had to wait all this time until a fully integrated modem found its way into the Tegra family, and we’re not really complaining. We’re just glad it’s here.   You might know Read more