Tegra 3

NVIDIA TEGRA MOBILE PROCESSORS

The world’s first mobile super processors, NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 quad-core and Tegra® 2 dual-core processors deliver unprecedented performance in a wide range of mobile devices. Extreme multitasking. The best Web experience, with up to two times faster browsing and hardware-accelerated Flash. Console-quality gaming with an integrated ultra-low power (ULP) NVIDIA® GeForce® GPU. Even HD video capabilities unlike anything seen before in mobile processors.

Key Innovations

• Super 4-PLUS-1™ Quad Core with 5th Battery Saver Core Four plus one refers to Tegra 3’s quad CPU cores, plus the 5th, battery-saver CPU core. This Variable SMP architecture enables four performance cores to be used for max burst, when needed, with each core independently and automatically enabled and disabled based on workload. The single battery-saver core (or companion core) handles low-power tasks like active standby, music, and video, and is transparent to the OS and applications.
• NVIDIA DirectTouch™ - This is a patent-pending architecture that improves touch responsiveness and reduces power consumption by offloading a portion of the touch processing onto the NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 processor.
• 3D Stereo Gaming – This capability leverages NVIDIA’s award-winning NVIDIA 3D Vision® technology to automatically, and in real-time, convert OpenGL based games and apps into Stereo 3D.
• NVIDIA PRISM Display Technology – PRISM (or Pixel Rendering Intensity and Saturation Management) reduces a mobile device’s backlight power while simultaneously enhancing the pixel color to deliver the same visual quality with substantially extended battery life.