Nvidia Tegra K1: new details on energy efficiency consumption

When last March Nvidia started to talk and show the first details of its new Tegra K1 , professionals and above all the users in the process of changing tablet, laptop or smartphone, they began to desire this solution given the excellent performance that this chip should offer (especially in 3D).

What is interesting, however, is even more consumption and energy efficiency, an aspect on which Nvidia worked great.

Tegra K1 will use not only on mobile devices, but also on laptops, convertible, arriving at the server world, where, albeit with lower performance for example a Nvidia Tesla K40 itself, will be able to undoubtedly be more efficient.

Although the comparison may seem risky, the site wccftech.com publishes a slide that sees in front of the absolute performance of Tegra Tesla K40 with K1; the result in terms of raw power is not a surprise and of course in favor of Tesla K40, while when it comes to efficiency, we note that Tegra K1 is much better: 

WCCFTech.com	Tesla K40 + CPU	Nvidia Tegra K21
Single Precision Peak	4.2 TeraFlops	326 GFlops
Single Precision SGEMM	3.8 TeraFlops	290 GFlops
Memory	@ 288GB 12GB / s	2GB@14.9GB / s
Power (CPU + GPU)	~ 385Watt	<11Watts
Performance Per Watt	10SP GFlops Per Watt	26SP GFlops Per Watt

With these numbers Tegra K1 opens the road to become one of the most viable platforms for the coming years, especially given the versatility that should ensure consideration of the agreements with the automakers that take advantage of the Tegra solution for future infotainment systems.