Nvidia's quad-core Kal-El demos next-gen mobile graphics, blow minds (w/ video)

<i>That means the simulations we're watching require a full quartet of processing cores on top of the 12-core GPU NVIDIA has in Kal-El. Mind-boggling stuff.</i><p>Mind boggling indeed, but totally absent in the text and demo was any mention of power usage. Four cores running at 75% utilization plus 12 GPU cores is going to suck down a tablet battery in a hurry.

In case anyone is wondering, Kal-El is Superman's Kryptonian name.

My concern with this is heat. If you have 75% utilization in a mobile device, most turn into briquettes. They're impossible to hold. I wonder how NVIDIA plans to address that.

I really hope that somewhen soon someone will introduce next-gen quad core batteries to provide enough energy to power mobile beasts like this one.

Funnily, my quad Intel Core i7 (two cores both with hyperthreading) couldn't play the 720p Flash video on YouTube smoothly...<p>Impressive stuff! The thing I paid most attention to was the way they had figured out at least some way of what to do with those ARM cores. Getting four cores running at 75% (no idea whether they were throttled at the time) means there's some serious work being done. The usual mobile graphics benchmarks don't stress the cpu side as much the gpu side so Tegra3 wouldn't gain as much by running existing demos.

I bet Google will come up with Chrome for phones and let Nvidia fully run on its new OS. I can foresee Android killing more than 2 cores out of Kal-El' 4...

Why did Apple break up with Nvidia..? Now they have to face the competition.

For those wondering weather more cores means more power consumption: <a href="http://superuser.com/questions/163567/why-does-the-heat-production-increase-as-the-clockrate-of-a-cpu-increases" rel="nofollow">http://superuser.com/questions/163567/why-does-the-heat-prod...</a>

Does it run Crysis?

That name bugs me. Made worse by the fact I just re-read Crisis on Infinite Earths so my mind is full of DC goodness.<p>Be sure not to use this under a red sun.