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NVIDIA “Ion 2″: Next Generation Netbook GPU

2010.03.03

NVIDIA claims 10 times the graphics performance of run-of-the-mill netbooks and up to 10 hours of battery life. Unofficially known as Ion 2, the new GPU that works with Intel’s Atom Pine Trail CPUs in concert with the company’s Optimus technology improves performance as well as battery power.
You can now expect smooth HD video playback [...]

Chrome OS Flow: Full NVIDIA Ion Acceleration

2010.02.19

If you have an ION GPU doing the graphics work and running Chrome OS (ChromiumOS), make sure to download and install the latest Hexxeh build called Flow: it takes full advantage of NVIDIA’s ION GPU. The already featherweight OS should start flying now. Source: Hexxeh via Chromium Netbooks, Engadget

NVIDIA Optimus

2010.02.09

NVIDIA’s Optimus technology automatically toggles between the powerful discrete GPU and the battery-sipping integrated one. Wonderful. Beats having to log out and log back in. Source: AnandTech, PC Perspective, Hot Hardware, Engadget

CES 2010: NVIDIA to Showcase 3D Blu-ray Tech

2009.12.12

NVIDIA will showcase 3D Blu-ray playback technologies at CES 2010. NVIDIA and movie playback software developers including Arcsoft (TotalMedia Theatre), Corel (WinDVD), Cyberlink (PowerDVD Ultra) and Sonic (Roxio CinePlayer BD) have been working together to develop programs that support 3D Blu-ray titles, which are limited to just a few as of today (see “3D Blu-ray [...]

GPU Accelerated Browsers

2009.11.24

To improve the performance of browsers companies are building versions that take advantage of the GPU. Microsoft plans to shift graphics and text rendering duties from the CPU to the GPU with Internet Explorer 9. Mozilla will do the same with FireFox using Direct2D and DirectWrite, the same tools Microsoft will be using. Not surprisingly [...]

Matrox M9188: Supports Eight Displays!

2009.11.10

Good News Bad News Matrox’s M9188 is an unique PCIe x16 GPU that supports up to eight displays: eight DisplayPort connections or eight single-link DVI connections. That is amazing! The M9188 packs 2GB of video memory and each of the displays can have a resolution as high as 2560 x 1600. You won’t have to [...]

ATI Radeon Eyefinity: Six Monitors, 268 Megapixels

2009.09.11

Pixels Galore That’s Codemaster’s GRID being played by a really lucky guy on 6 LCD monitors. ATI’s Radeon Eyefinity lets you connect up to 6 displays with a single graphics card via DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, etc. The GPU running the show is based on 40nm technology, features 2 billion transistors and has the capacity for 2.5 [...]

Media Pad: NVIDIA Tegra Integrated

2009.08.24

Media Pad In an interview with Hexus, Mike Rayfield, the general manager of NVIDIA’s mobile unit, mentioned a “media pad” that sports a “3G capable touchpad” with display sizes ranging from 7- to 13-inches that will use the company’s Tegra, a high-power, low-weight chipset. Combine this with the rumor that Apple is working on some [...]

Zune HD: Powered by NVIDIA Tegra Processor

2009.08.17

Tegra Powered What is NVIDIA’s Tegra processor and why is it so important that Microsoft’s Zune HD has it? According to NVIDIA, Tegra is the brand for a family of “computers-on-a-chip” processors that “brings the power of advanced visual computing to a broad range of handheld and mobile platforms. Tegra enables intuitive user interfaces, advanced [...]

Matrox M9148 LP PCIe x16: Four 30-inch at 2560 x 1600 via DisplayPort

2009.07.14

Need to drive four 30-inch monitors at 2560 x 1600? Don’t want to get two graphics cards? Don’t have the motherboard that supports two PCIe x16 connections? Matrox has the solution: M9148 LP PCIe x16. It has four DisplayPort connections that can each drive resolutions up to 2560 x 1600. Beautiful. The M9148 comes with [...]


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