Behold, the unholy marriage of a Tegra 3 game on a device of Snapdragon S4!

One of the great success last year marketing comes from NVIDIA and its Tegra platform. Tegra 2 began the dual-core era in early 2011. And late last fall, he increased the game even more with the platform Tegra 3hearts.

One of the NVIDIA ' main competitors of s in space, Qualcomm, responded to return in 2012 with a processor dual core Snapdragon S4 and Adreno graphics. And in one of these strange twists that can be done with Android for manufacturing (or so it seems), we ' ve had the opportunity to see it in action in the x a HTC.

There may be a little confused, but. In the United States, the x fact HTC reference (so far) of AT & t ' s version with its Qualcomm processor and LTE. Outside the United States, the version of Qualcomm is called a HTC and Tegra 3 XL is the a x. follow?

Return to Tegra 3. For a time, NVIDIA ' s strategy is firmly based on optimized games available only on devices Tegra 3 Tegra 3 and some only through NVIDIA ' s own Tegra Zone store. A number of titles have been fact their way into Google game store large and is now available on devices non - Tegra 3. We ' re with Riptide GP as our example, because we ' re very familiar with it. Very. He ' s a version in the Google game store that plays on almost all high end devices - Qualcomm S3 and S4, OMAP, Exynos, etc.. She plays very well and our hat ' s off to developers for a great game.

But this same game is loaded on Tegra 3 devices, you will see all kinds of effects and graphics that other processors can only ' handle t. things such as splashes of water on the screen, or a cool hyperspeed blur effect when you use the speed increases. Here ' s what developers have to say .

"RIPTIDE GP IMPROVED TEGRA 3!
The power of the hearts of NVIDIA ' s superchip Tegra 3 allowed us to add even more details and excitement to the experience of Riptide GP.  Tegra 3 players get extra heavyweight-detailed wave mapped to normal, water splashes on the camera and a spectacular movement realistic blur effect when stimulate them.  "Riptide GP seems even better with the power of the Tegra 3!"

Other games, such as Shadowgun THD won ' support even on our propelled S4 x t a HTC. And on GTA3, you must run a Tegra 3 max on all settings and run in frame rate. We can ' t just dismiss these differences, and NVIDIA Gets the blink of eye for the wow factor.

So. What happens when you run one of our favorite games - Riptide GP - on the version of Snapdragon Qualcomm dual-core of the x S4 a HTC? One way to know. A hit the break to see how it is.

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