The final details on Tegra 3 (codenamed "Kal-El") have finally been unveiled. It's not exactly a revolutionary design, but Nvidia's new SoC promises to deliver notebook-level performance. Nvidia is promising better performance and improved battery life (compared to the Tegra 2). That's a tall order in world of notebooks, but it's an even more difficult task more when you're dealing with embedded architecture. The voltage requirements are much tighter and we're dealing with power consumption a magnitude lower than the familiar x86 processors.

TomsHardware compared the new AMD FX 8-core processors with the codename Bulldozer against eight other CPU including AMD Phenom II and i5-2500K. AMD claims that by developing the FX-8150 8-core processor they made important improvements to power consumption. The energy efficiency basically means what their hardware can do per watt of power consumption. Low energy consumption on its own doesn't directly translate to high efficiency. Especially in today's world of single- and multi-threaded applications, it's important to take different workloads into account.

New version of benchmarking and testing tool FluidMark 1.4.0 has been released. FluidMark is a fluid simulation benchmark based on NVIDIA PhysX engine. For liquid simulation it uses the SPH (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics) method where interparticle forces are considered. FluidMark support both CPU and GPU PhysX and in CPU mode, multi-core CPUs are supported. FluidMark uses an OpenGL 2 renderer for drawing the 3D scene. In the new version was updated the PhysX engine on which is FluidMark based to version 2.8.4.6.