Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang took the stage at CES on Sunday evening to unveil, among other things, the company's next-generation tablet chip: the Tegra 4.
By Huang's own admission, the chip is one of the company's "worst-kept secrets," and the core specifications are basically identical to those that were leaked last month: four Cortex-A15 CPU cores (along with an additional low-power companion core, which switches on when the tablet is idle to save power) take care of the CPU side, while 72 GeForce GPU cores boost graphics performance over Tegra 3.
In a side-by-side webpage loading test with Google's Nexus 10 (the current reigning champion of Android tablet performance) a Tegra 4-based prototype loaded a set of webpages nearly twice as quickly: 27 seconds compared to 50 seconds. It's worth noting that the Tegra tablet appeared to be running the stock Android browser, however, while the Nexus 10 was running Google Chrome—the latter browser has proven to have slightly lower benchmarking scores, so take these results with a grain of salt.
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