Nvidia reveals the 64-bit Denver core... with a fake die shot

[davidzo]

Nope. It STILL runs ARMv7.


And you'll probably be waiting a long, long time before ARM licenses anything nVidia's making.
In fact, if ARM finds nVidia to actually invade their turf, they'll just stop any future licensing. But I suppose Denver is probably more standard design than what nVidia is touting; unlike TI they're not even one of the premier licensees.

ure right about that. CPUcores are gonna be armv7.

I think theyre talking about the graphics or general ALUs part of the chip. Currently tegra T20s Geforce GPU is at best a Geforce6 derivative, even that is a little overstating.
Its difficult to process any general code on such an old fixed function gpu not even talking about double precision what is the industry asks for.

As we all know 64bits is double precision Floating Point Arithmetic. A feature on GPUs exclusive to GT200 and later GF1x0 GPUs and several ATIs.

The mentioning of 64bit is probably a hint that the future Tegra ALU part will support these gpgpu features.
Thus the Chip can calculate 64bits, albeit not on its CPU, lol.

What nvidia will definitely implement to the CPU is a Physical Adress Extension to allow more than 4gig of RAM (PAE-like).
Oh wait, wasn't it ARM that anounced this feature for the Cortex A15 already? So thats not even nvidas feat.
Dont expect too much from a Company that has not even half the workforce of the weakest competitor (AMD) and most of them in marketing, the others playing games most of the time.


- So there u have it. 64bit computing on Tegra Codenamed Denver!
RAM support and some double precision ALU, thats it.