Tegra 4 Whitepaper - Nvidia
Tegra 4 Whitepaper - Nvidia Tegra 4 Whitepaper - Nvidia
P a g e | 22These unique NVIDIA ® Tegra ® processor advanced visual effects enable game developers todeliver a superior and visually differentiated gaming experience compared to games that areavailable for non-Tegra processor devices. Developers of the above games leveraged not onlyTegra 4 processor’s GPU capabilities, but also NVIDIA’s rich experience in graphics andgaming to deliver engaging and segment-leading gaming experiences.The GPU horsepower of Tegra 4 processor along with the quad core CPU complex will furtherempower game developers to deliver games that include PC and console class features suchas realistic physics effects, dynamic lighting, HDR textures, advanced shadow effects, highergeometry details, subsurface scattering, and dynamic reflections.One of the often overlooked reasons why so many games running on NVIDIA Tegra processorenableddevices look so much better than on competitive devices is not just the advancedhardware features, but also the software development assistance and development toolsNVIDIA can provide to game developers. NVIDIA has years of experience helping gamedevelopers implement amazing graphics effects using customized algorithms that are tuned tothe GPU architecture. NVIDIA continues to invest heavily in development and debugging toolsto help ensure developers can deliver the highest quality gaming content on Tegra processordevices that is also highlighted and made easily accessible to end users by the NVIDIATegraZone Android application.Developer SupportNVIDIA listened to the needs of today’s mobile developers, delivering tools that allowdevelopers to focus on creating compelling game titles and high-performance applicationsinstead of blindly navigating through platform-specific minutiae.Nsight Tegra, Visual Studio Edition, is the premiere environment for native Androiddevelopment, integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio. Nsight Tegra seamlessly integratesAndroid development and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, taking the pain out of native Androiddevelopment, providing native Android project management, compilation, and debugging withinthe familiar Visual Studio development environment.Tegra Profiler for Android is a multi-core CPU sampling profiler that provides an interactiveview of captured profiling data, helping improve overall application performance.And finally PerfHUD ES provides in-depth analysis of OpenGL ES applications on Tegraprocessor based devices, targeting optimizations where they are most needed. The debuggingcapabilities provide insight into GPU performance and bottleneck information, helping find thecauses for performance and rendering anomalies.NVIDIA Tegra 4 GPU Architecture February 2013
P a g e | 23Figure 9 – Tegra Development ToolsDevelopment tools need to get out of the way and allow developers to do their jobs. NVIDIA’sTegra Developer Tools makes this possible, allowing developers to quickly and easily bringconsole-quality games to the NVIDIA ® Tegra processor.ConclusionThe need for higher quality GPU subsystems in mobile devices will continue to increase asmobile usage models rely more and more on faster graphics processing speed. For the bestuser experiences, smartphones and tablets must provide highly responsive graphical userinterfaces, fast Web browsing capability, visually rich 3D gaming, and be able to drive higherresolution displays. It goes without saying that mobile 3D gaming systems such as NVIDIAProject Shield portable or Ouya-type devices can always benefit for increased GPU speed toprocess and display more realistic gaming environments and characters.Automotive infotainment systems are now requiring much more graphics horsepower for visualinstrumentation clusters, 3D navigation functions, intelligent driver assist tools, and HDentertainment systems. And new use cases such as NVIDIA ® Chimera architecture (NVIDIA’sComputational Photography Architecture), requires a powerful GPU.The GPU subsystem within the NVIDIA Tegra 4 Family of processors is enabling all of theaforementioned graphics capabilities in mobile devices, and far surpasses the competition, asseen in many of the top mobile GPU benchmarks. The Tegra 4 processor is expected to leadthe mobile industry in visual computing capability in 2013.NVIDIA Tegra 4 GPU Architecture February 2013
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P a g e | 22These unique NVIDIA ® <strong>Tegra</strong> ® processor advanced visual effects enable game developers todeliver a superior and visually differentiated gaming experience compared to games that areavailable for non-<strong>Tegra</strong> processor devices. Developers of the above games leveraged not only<strong>Tegra</strong> 4 processor’s GPU capabilities, but also NVIDIA’s rich experience in graphics andgaming to deliver engaging and segment-leading gaming experiences.The GPU horsepower of <strong>Tegra</strong> 4 processor along with the quad core CPU complex will furtherempower game developers to deliver games that include PC and console class features suchas realistic physics effects, dynamic lighting, HDR textures, advanced shadow effects, highergeometry details, subsurface scattering, and dynamic reflections.One of the often overlooked reasons why so many games running on NVIDIA <strong>Tegra</strong> processorenableddevices look so much better than on competitive devices is not just the advancedhardware features, but also the software development assistance and development toolsNVIDIA can provide to game developers. NVIDIA has years of experience helping gamedevelopers implement amazing graphics effects using customized algorithms that are tuned tothe GPU architecture. NVIDIA continues to invest heavily in development and debugging toolsto help ensure developers can deliver the highest quality gaming content on <strong>Tegra</strong> processordevices that is also highlighted and made easily accessible to end users by the NVIDIA<strong>Tegra</strong>Zone Android application.Developer SupportNVIDIA listened to the needs of today’s mobile developers, delivering tools that allowdevelopers to focus on creating compelling game titles and high-performance applicationsinstead of blindly navigating through platform-specific minutiae.Nsight <strong>Tegra</strong>, Visual Studio Edition, is the premiere environment for native Androiddevelopment, integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio. Nsight <strong>Tegra</strong> seamlessly integratesAndroid development and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, taking the pain out of native Androiddevelopment, providing native Android project management, compilation, and debugging withinthe familiar Visual Studio development environment.<strong>Tegra</strong> Profiler for Android is a multi-core CPU sampling profiler that provides an interactiveview of captured profiling data, helping improve overall application performance.And finally PerfHUD ES provides in-depth analysis of OpenGL ES applications on <strong>Tegra</strong>processor based devices, targeting optimizations where they are most needed. The debuggingcapabilities provide insight into GPU performance and bottleneck information, helping find thecauses for performance and rendering anomalies.NVIDIA <strong>Tegra</strong> 4 GPU Architecture February 2013
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