{"id":56652,"date":"2013-07-25T13:44:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T11:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=56652"},"modified":"2013-07-25T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T11:47:00","slug":"can-nvidias-tegra-5-mobile-chip-run-battlefield-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/56652-can-nvidias-tegra-5-mobile-chip-run-battlefield-3","title":{"rendered":"Can Nvidia’s Tegra 5 mobile chip run Battlefield 3?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Behind closed doors at SIGGRAPH 2013, Nvidia demonstrated and talked in more detail about Project Logan, the complete system-on-chip that will eventually become Tegra 5.<\/p>\n

Nvidia has previously shown Tegra 5 to be capable of running the Digital Ira benchmark<\/a>, but they didn’t show any gaming capability beyond rendering a nicely detailed island.<\/p>\n

While talking to developers and interested manufacturers at the secret meeting, Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney said that he was excited that Tegra 5 and Mobile Kepler existed, as it allows game developers to do a whole lot more.<\/p>\n

Sweeney also talked about how Tegra 5’s ability to finally run CUDA calculations and its support for Direct X 11 and OpenGL 4.3 makes the job of game porting and development much easier for studios new to the mobile gaming market.<\/p>\n

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Nvidia Tegra 5 running Digital Ira benchmark<\/p><\/div>\n

Sweeney’s vision for the Unreal 4 engine, which will feature on next-gen platforms and scales from mobile phones all the way to consoles and desktop computers, is that devices running on Tegra 5 will be able to give gamers a similar experience to their desktop and gaming console counterparts.<\/p>\n

Given Nvidia’s claim that Tegra 5 is more powerful in theory than the Playstation 3,<\/a> it will be interesting to see just how much can be done on the hardware.<\/p>\n

Battlefield 3 on Tegra 5<\/h3>\n

The reveal of Project Logan also gives a little more credence to a leaked video that was supposedly taken by an audience member at GTC (GPU Technology Conference) in March 2013. The video shows a developer off-screen demonstrating some new graphics hardware.<\/p>\n

The video first shows off a small indoors scene of a building with gun powder marks, bullet holes, and blood on the floors – it looks really low-end. The audio is a bit muffled, but I’ve managed to get some of the dialogue into text here.<\/p>\n

“Okay, so what we have here is state of the art graphics… its actually running on a high-end tablet, the latest-generation iPad 4. Forty percent of the A6x silicon is GPUs, a whole bunch of GPUs in there. So this is an iPad… pretty good-looking graphics, don’t you think?<\/p>\n

Alright, so why don’t we now change over to… Kepler. [some pause] What do you guys think? A little bit different? So [we have] dynamic lighting, particle systems and rich geometry, High Dynamic range lighting, all the shadows and its a struggle to go back. This is Mobile Kepler.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n