News regarding the latest Maxwell chips from NVIDIA show that the GPU is created with mobile and battery optimisations in mind. NVIDIA enjoyed a lot of success with Kepler that grabbed plenty of design wins in the notebook space and eventually it also ended up in the upcoming Tegra K1. The plan is that Maxwell should build on this this success, as Fudzilla reports in its article.

Maxwell is said to scale from 200W+ discrete graphics cards down to 2W to 3W SoC Tegra parts and should offer much better performance per watt compared to Kepler generation. The first card codenamed GM107 should be coming as a desktop part and mobile parts are shortly behind. Mobile versions will reportedly be ready for Intel’s Broadwell notebook refresh that should happen in the second half of 2014.

Tegra based on Maxwell is said to come in 2015 and should offer significant performance boost compared to Tegra K1 SoC parts. Maxwell will also be NVIDIA’s first GPU to be licensed to various SoC makers. The cost of GPU IP in mobile SoCs is relatively low, but licensing might help Nvidia gain more market share and reap the benefits down the road.

Gaming on phones and tablets is rumored to become a lot better and mature, but still games on tablets are years behind next generation console or mainstream PC gaming. Battlefield 4 and Titanfall as well as Call of Duty and similar games would continue to look their best on PCs and next-gen consoles, but older titles are said to find their way to future tablets and make the gaming on tablets and phones a bit better.

To put it plainly, the latest tech for desktops from ten years ago will be considered latest tech for mobile phones today. And to make it even better, the gap between PC and mobile is likely to start closing in rapidly in the future as well.

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