With Unreal Engine 4, mobile games will be out in 2014 featuring the same visuals that PCs, Xbox One and PS4 deliver. It took Epic Games Unreal Engine 3 technology eight years to evolve from PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 to mobile devices with the launch of Chair Entertainment’s Infinity Blade on Apple iPad. The leap in graphic fidelity between these two chips – just a year removed from the Tegra 4 debut last CES – is amazing. “That means a better gaming experience and faster overall performance without sacrificing battery life.”ĭuring the press conference Serious Sam 3 was shown on Tegra 4 and then on Tegra K1. “The Kepler GPU powering Tegra K1 is 1.5 times more efficient than other mobile GPUs,” wrote Kravitz. NVIDIA blogger Noah Kravitz explained that the NVIDIA Kepler technology, which powers tens of millions of GeForce PC gaming cards, packs a punch in mobile form. These capabilities will enable PC and next console game developers to finally bring their stunning, visually rich titles to mobile devices.
Tegra K1 provides full support for the latest PC-class gaming technologies - including DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.4 and tessellation. Tegra K1 is the first mobile processor to deliver the same graphics features as next-generation gaming consoles (Xbox One, PlayStation 4) and faster performance than current generation consoles (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3), all in the palm of your hand. Huang said one of the highlights of the Tegra K1 chip lies in its power to completely eliminate the lines between mobile and high-end PC and console gaming.
It bridges the gap for developers, who can now build next-gen games and apps that will run on any device.” “With Tegra K1, we’re bringing that heritage to mobile.
“Over the past two decades, NVIDIA invented the GPU and has developed more graphics technologies than any other company,” said Huang during the hour-and-a-half press conference. It was playable after the press event on tablets, along with the Unreal Engine 4 tech demos. Developer Frozenbyte created an enhanced version of the game to take advantage of the Tegra K1 technology. Representatives from Epic were not at CES, but NVIDIA did showcase an Unreal Engine 3 game, Trine 2, running on the big screen in a live gameplay demo.