NVIDIA Demonstrates Dynamic Lighting and Real-Time Physics of Tegra 3 Tablets

Three and a half months ago, NVIDIA first announced the third-generation mobile applications processor, code-named "Kal-El", commonly known as Tegra 3. Now that Tegra 2 is gradually gaining a foothold in smartphones and tablets, Tegra 3’s expectations are also rising.

Although Tegra 3 will be released within a few months, in order to attract everyone’s appetite, NVIDIA announced today a technical demo “Glowball” consisting of a Tegra 3 processor and an Android 3.0 Honeycomb cellular operating system. The reference platform mainly shows dynamic lighting and real-time physics effects. The latter uses the four Cortex-A9 cores of the Tegra 3 processor, and you can see the occupancy of each core in the lower left corner of the video.

Although this is just a demonstration of DEMO, in the actual game may not see such a gorgeous and smooth effect, but the tablet can do this, it is very impressive.

NVIDIA also stated that Tegra 3 processor-based products will be released during the end of the year shopping season, a bit later than the earliest mentioned in August 2011.

The authoritative hardware website AnandTech introduced NVIDIA's strategy by the way when he introduced this video: “I have warned Qualcomm and Texas Instruments that the dangers in SoC are not only from NVIDIA’s engineering technology, but also from NVIDIA’s. Marketing.Although it seems to me overkill, NVIDIA does know how to turn a simple product launch into an extremely glorious technical advocacy. Even if NVIDIA shared promotional material for the media, no rival has so far been able to make it. So beautiful slides, and spread them all over the network.... The Glowball demo is another excellent example of NVIDIA’s familiarity with products and marketing in the face of major releases. Kal-El has to wait for months, But this is a great way to create excitement."

So, Karmak God praised NVIDIA for a certain reason.