NVIDIA shows off power of Kal-El quad-core chip with new ‘Glowball’ video

By on May 29, 2011 at 11:00 PM
Gaming May 29, 2011

NVIDIA has released a new video called “Glowball” that shows off the power of its upcoming quad-core Kal-El mobile processor  — the same quad-core monster that should be making its way into Amazon’s “Hollywood” tablet in the near future. The video shows dynamic lighting rendering on a mobile device for the first time, and a 12-core NVIDIA graphics processing unit makes it possible in the Kal-El. The demo is pretty stunning, and we know we definitely can’t wait to see this sort of gaming power reach the palms of our hands. Hit the jump for a video of the Kal-El in action.

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  • mikeD

    I can’t wait for this chip to make it into smartphones

  • Anonymous

    I wonder if this will make developers make some good games for Android.

    • Anonymous

      It’s not the hardware that is keeping them from doing so already, so I guess not.

  • dima

    thats sorta amazing… and by sorta, i mean extremely.

  • Anonymous

    I’ve been a tech nerd for far too long to be swayed by tech demos. Call me when somebody takes this chip, puts it into a real life phone/tablet, and then makes some real life games that can give us this level of amazing performance in real life.

    Unless and until I see that, this is just another pretty light show. There’s nothing wrong with pretty light shows; I just don’t put a lot of stock in how accurately they reflect reality.

    • Anonymous

      Absolutely right. I can remember the insane graphics the NVidia demo’s produced on my ancient GeForce 4200ti a few years back, they actually looked better than many of the games released today, but if you actually tried to play anything on it, the graphics were decidedly less impressive. Today you’d call them butt-ugly.

      I’ll cheer for NVidia if they finally get it to market and it’s still as great as this demo.

  • Anonymous

    I wonder what this is going to do to battery life…

    • Anonymous

      Strange how that is never part of the demo.

    • KingKuei

      Assuming this chip is still built around TSMC’s 40nm processes, I can’t imagine this chip gets very good battery life. Granted, some processes will finish faster and allow the chip to power down sooner, but running all 4 must tax the battery. My take is that this chip will help push the boundaries of what’s possible on a mobile device from a graphics standpoint, but it will probably take another generation or two to bring down the power draw.

      • Anonymous

        We can has sci-fi energy cells now?

      • Biggles

        It’ll be built on 28nm.  Four CPU cores and 12 GPU cores would be too large at 40nm.

  • Anonymous

    Demo huh? Call me when there is a shipping product that is selling like hot cakes. Until then………….we have a demo.

  • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

    APPLETARDS, take note here.   You will never have a chip of this power and awesomeness.  Only on a DROID 3.0 Honeycomb tablet or higher will be capable.  This is true freedom and choice.  DROID DOES!!

    • Doomzdae

      What good is power if it is never used

    • Anonymous

      I can’t wait to replace the chip in my inspire with this bad boy

    • Anonymous

      Your post sound more logical and less fan-boyish if you used the word Android instead of Droid. Sadly, your just a bad Verizon advertisement 

    • Anonymous

      You sure about that Norm? Weren’t you fandroids berating iFans for their devices not being powerful as Tegra 2 powered devices? Then Apple launched the iPad 2 with the A5 which murders the Tegra 2 in every test.

      • Anonymous

        Every test? You might want to check again. The A5 should be faster. It is twice as big and came out after Tegra II.

  • http://twitter.com/_w4lly Mike Wallach

    DO WANT

  • http://about.me/brandonmccall brandonmccall

    Dope.

  • Anonymous

    Will it be as good as the tegra2 has been?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6JUK2RDOPHCULTIFWTNRVQ4PYQ JonathanW

    your going to need a car battery to run this chip! 

  • bigbudha

    wonder what the power consumption is?

  • http://twitter.com/ZKent85 Z Kent

    I don’t have 4 cores in my PC. I have 2! Why on earth would I want 4 in my mobile phone? First I’ll get 4-8 cores in my PC for awesome gaming on my 25″ screen then I’ll think about awesome gaming on my ….4.3″ screen device :s

  • Bradbyrd1110

    Can’t wait for that!

  • Anonymous

    so, heres my debbie downer moment, great processor, but running on an android tablet,, as a developer i would have to say until android becomes less fragmented you can have all the awsomeness of this graphics card,, to bad no one will make anything for it….

    • Jroc869

      except for the fact that most tablets should run the same os. I think google has learned their lesson with the phones. 

  • Biggles

    Battery life will be a real issue.  Unless they can shrink the accompanying components and utilize most of the phone for a battery (3000-4000mAh) without compromising the profile, this is likely slated for gaming tablets.

  • http://profiles.google.com/ceeaser28 ian carr

    umm unless most of you have never used a computer before with strong Graphic chipsets, this is nothing new. As stated below even if these chips make it onto a phone (which shouldnt be a problem) like LTE 4G battery technology has not caught up yet and would be useless running it on a phone or tablet without a wall socket near by. So ill keep my Laptop and do this now, and use my phone for what it is intended.

  • Abc

    lets hope the chips name lives up to superman’s legacy

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