Xbox 360 GPU power coming to mobile by 2014, says NVidia

I see the increase similar to how PC hardware got better. There was a big increase in a relativ short time between intels 486 cpu until the dual cores and similar from voodoo graphics card till DX10 cards. There is still improvement now with quad core cpu's and DX11 cards but it's not anymore as huge as it was. You cant sustain the same growth rate over a longer time as you will hit obstacles that will make a too powerfull advancement unuseable for several reasons and mobile phones will hit those obstacles sooner or later. There is already a clear decline each year compared to the beginning of smartphones.

I'm glad to see that people can still pull information out of their ass and try and try and win people over with it.

Somebody needs to drop this guys name back to Nvidia and just call him out. What horrendous bollocks.

Now if only any of these phones/mobile devices had decent controls to make use of the grapics power.

@Dominic
naaa, they produce graphic chips, they will always put forth the argument that you need better graphics to sell a game.

Do not expect nvidia to have an answer, if you ask them which developer they believe will spend a current triple-a graphics budget on a game for mobile devices. (Not counting conversions of pre-existing games).

As Andrew said, I'd be happy to trade a little of that power for longer battery life. Even with fairly light use, screen brightness turned down a bit, and most of the bells and whistles (wi-fi, GPS, bluetooth, constant notifications) switched off for most of the day while I'm at work, my phone still only just makes it through a full day without charging.

When I play games on my phone the battery runs flat faster than any handheld console I've ever owned. In fact, battery life is pretty much the only thing I don't like about my current phone, and I'd spend a lot more time gaming on it if it could take the strain.

I agree about the battery life comments. I think at some point in the hardware evolution, they will have to make compromises, they probably are already doing it today. With dedicated mobile game hardware like the Vita, you can go all out on energy consumption, while for phones, you have to be more conservative. People need their phones for different things than gaming, and nobody wants their battery to go flat because they were gaming for one or two hours on their commute.

Exactly my thoughts, who wants thier iPhone 6s to get 'Siri Voice of Death' lol

@ Jim, according to the graph mobile gaming has not yet reached that of current consoles. Otherwise the dark green line would intersect the blue line. As the headline suggests the graph predicts mobile will not overtake current gen (360/PS3) graphics capability until 2014, and given the current trend of year on year increases in GFX on highend mobile handsets I don’t see that as being too farfetched. Heat has always been an issue, as has power, but more efficient hardware is mitigating that year on year. I think ARM also recently announced chipsets they predicted would be on par with a PS3 in a similar timeframe so it’s going to be an interesting race.

I think it seems quite reasonable to think that tablets (at least), and probably also mobiles, will have the sorts of graphics power of say, an Xbox 360, in another 2 years.

I believe NVidia and whoever can probably squeeze that sort of technology into smaller chips, more energy efficient, etc.

At the same time, the next gen consoles will be another leap ahead.

But if you look at phones and tablets today, compared to 5 years ago, that same difference took 20 years on home computers.

Mobiles and tablets are on their own catch up curve, and have all the benefits of basically just mimicking all the work already done on larger devices, with the main effort simply going in to making the technologies smaller and smarter.

* I have no idea what I'm talking about, but hey.