Product: GeForce GTX 480
Award: Hexus Recommended
Backed by a five-year warranty and showing just how good GeForce GTX 480 can be, ZOTAC sets a high bar for other NVIDIA AIBs to follow.
Product: GeForce GTX 480
...the fact remains, you are certainly looking at the fastest GPUs on the block. Additional benefits when purchasing an NVIDIA card is of course PhysX which definitely is gaining more ground since the last year. It's a nice feature to have, sure... CUDA, we haven't talked about it much just yet. But obviously the GF100 GPUs are fully CUDA ready, in fact the architecture was designed with CUDA in mind. On the compute side of things we know one thing for sure, the GF100 should be impressive.
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Product: GeForce GTX 470
Award: Guru 3D Top Pick
Two big thumbs up to the design team, this product comes very much recommended and is granted our Top Pick award. What a nice release, I am genuinely impressed.
Product: GeForce GTX 470
So, it’s job done then; the GTX470 is measurably better than AMD’s HD5870.
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Kit Guru
Product: GeForce GTX 465
Award: Kit Guru Worth Buying
The GTX 465 succeeds in delivering Fermi to the masses. It’s that simple. This is a proper, next generation NVIDIA card at a much more affordable price.
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Product: GeForce GTX 460
First and foremost, despite being the first graphics cards you could fold on, all of ATI's current crop of GPUs are massively outperformed by Nvidia's Fermi-based cards. For example, the GeForce GTX 460 1GB is an astonishing two and half times faster than the similarly priced Radeon HD 5850. Given that the GeForce GTX 460 1GB only draws 8W more than the Radeon HD 5850 when folding, the Nvidia card is clearly a lot more energy efficient too.
Product: GeForce GTX 460
We've often looked at Galaxy's custom range of NVIDIA graphics cards and quietly wished for UK availability.
The cards in general tend to offer something that's a little different, and we're happy to see them marketed to European consumers under a new-look KFA2 brand, complete with the promise of localised customer service.
One of the first products to emerge - the KFA2 GeForce GTX 460 1GB LTD OC - offers excellent out-the-box performance at a reasonable price.
Product: GeForce GTX 460
Scan has managed to put this impressive specification together for just £717 exc VAT and the overclocked processor, powerful graphics card and decent chassis mean you're getting an awful lot for your money. The 3XS H55 does little wrong, and takes away a deserved Recommended award.
Product: GeForce GTX 460
Essentially what this all means is that if you're looking for something to power that 30-inch panel you've always wanted to have running in its native resolution a pair of GTX 460s is the way to go.
KitGuru
Product: GeForce GTX 460
KitGuru has been singing the praises of the GTX460 since it was released. We thought both eVGA and MSI versions we reviewed offered superb value for money with class leading performance. The Zotac AMP! Edition is the fastest GTX460 card we have tested to date, thanks to the very generous core and memory clock enhancements.
Product: GeForce GTX 460
Zotac have created the fastest GTX 460 we have tested to date. This is a product which features all of the great functionality from more expensive models and packs it into a £215/$250 package. Whether it is HTPC use (including 3D Blu-Ray) or just firing up the latest game, the Zotac GTX 460 AMP! Edition is an impressive card.
Product: GeForce GTX 460
Taking the winning formula that is NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 460, Inno3D's pre-overclocked 1GB card offers commendable out-the-box performance and is able to keep both cool and quiet under load.
Product: GeForce GTX 460
Our glut of numbers indicates that putting two pre-overclocked GeForce GTX 460 768MB cards into a system gives you excellent performance in a wide range of games. EVGA's SuperClocked cards ship with a £10 premium over default-clocked models but offer a noticeable bump in performance.
Product: GeForce GTX 460
At £680 exc VAT, it remains affordable for a high-end base unit, but matches or exceeds similarly priced systems for performance and build quality, and the chassis is a particular strong point. With its brand-new Fermi graphics card and a well-overclocked processor, it's an impressive all-round package.
Product: GeForce GTX 460
The ten-year warranty is incredible and it's obvious EVGA is really trying to cater for its customers' needs.
The factory overclock is impressive...
Product: GeForce GTX 460
Based on the results that we have obtained, we believe that the GTX 460 768MB represents excellent value for money. Fantastic work NVIDIA.
Product: GeForce GTX 460
In terms of extra features, Nvidia does have the edge over ATI at present. Its 3D Vision technology is long-established with lots of software support. In addition, its CUDA application acceleration is the only one supported by Adobe (great for Photoshopfans), plus there’s the company’s PhysX technology for better in game physics.
Product: GeForce GTX 460
At £680 exc VAT, it remains affordable for a high-end base unit, but matches or exceeds similarly priced systems for performance and build quality, and the chassis is a particular strong point. With its brand-new Fermi graphics card and a well-overclocked processor, it's an impressive all-round package
Product: GeForce GTX 460
£716 won't buy you an Intel Core i7 970X chip, but that for that same outlay you get a system that should last you a good while. Recommended if you want a no-fuss, tidy build from folk who know what they're doing.
Product: GeForce GTX 460
If you've got yourself a GTX 460 card by now, it would be criminal not to overclock it. ...If you haven’t placed your order for a GTX 460 1GB already, do so while stocks last!
Product: GeForce GTX 460
The GTX 460 is a triumph, cheaper than its closest rivals without ever compromising on raw performance.
Product: GeForce GTX 460
All told, then, the GTX 460 1GB is an impressive beast. On average throughout our tests, it performed better than ATI's competing cards at this price range, it's not too noisy and power consumption is as competitive as anything else. Once you factor in Nvidia's exclusive extras like PhysX and 3D gaming, you have a clear winner.
Kit Guru
Product: GeForce GTX 460
...this is a cracking product. The superclocked, 768MB EVGA GTX460 is the best nVidia card to hit the market since October 2006.
Product: GeForce GTX 460
Impressed by single-card performance of the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 460 1,024MB, the deal is sweetened by the knowledge that adding a second will provide near-perfect scaling and multi-monitor goodness. Two cards are well worth a look if you are planning on spending more than £300 on your next graphics upgrade.
Kit Guru
Product: GeForce GTX 460
With the GTX460, SLI scales beautifully with both clocks and GPUs… A pair of GTX460 cards can keep pace with the world's fastest graphics card.
Product: GeForce GTX 460
The huge amount of overclocking headroom and the fact the card remains pretty damned quiet while it's doing it too makes it a winner. …Time to head to the job centre for a fair few other cards then
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Product: GeForce GTX 460
NVIDIAs new GTX 460 offers a huge range of features... exceeding its direct competition from ATI in every way. A great, well balanced and flexible addition to the GTX 400 series.
Product: GeForce GTX 460
...if you’re in the market for a £200 graphics card, then the GTX 460 1GB is the sweet spot at the moment.
Product: GeForce GTX 460
Cooler, quieter and smaller than previous Fermi Cards, Sharp performance at sub-200 GBP price points and they overclock well.
Product: GeForce GTX 460
The GTX 460 768MB is a solid card, but scratch together the extra £20 and get the 1GB version if you can: you wont regret it.
Product: GeForce GTX 460
Bottom line: we feel that the GTX 460 series is a very viable DX11 class product with no real negatives. If you want serious bang for buck the we say pick up a 768MB model, then clock it to 800 MHz after which you suddenly arrive in the R5850 performance level area.
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Product: GeForce GTX 295
Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 295 retakes the title of the fastest graphics card in the world. Ultimately, it’s going to come down to pricing – if Nvidia’s partners manage to hit the prices we’re being quoted, we’d get the GTX 295 because of its inherent performance advantage in all but a few scenarios.
Product: GeForce GTX 295
Award: Hexus Extreme Speed Award
NVIDIA set out to win back the single-card performance crown and has undoubtedly succeeded. Irrespective of AMD pricecuts, and to NVIDIA's credit, the GeForce GTX 295's architectural efficiency manages to beat out the Radeon HD 4870 X2 in two of the other key non-performance areas - the card is significantly cooler and consumes far less power. All this whilst keeping relatively quiet, too.
Product: GeForce GTX 295
So, the GTX 295 is the fastest graphics card on the planet and it consumes less power than the competition. NVIDIA has aimed for the gaming performance crown with the GTX 295 and it has certainly succeeded...
Most importantly, though, NVIDIA has also regained the price/performance crown, making this the clear choice of ultra high-end graphics cards.
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Product: GeForce GTX 285
NVIDIA claims the GeForce GTX 285 to be the "fastest single GPU solution available," and quite frankly, it is. The card, essentially an overclocked GeForce GTX 280 built on 55nm technology, fulfils its promise of higher performance and lower temperatures.
Product: GeForce GTX 285
Award: Elite B*st*rds Elite
Performance Award
It's fair to say that, as a result, the GeForce GTX 285 is noticeably faster across the board with very few caveats, allowing it to enjoy every title at 1920x1200 with anti-aliasing enabled without issue, and frequently making 2560x1600 with AA switched on a possibility, even in the latest games. Add to that the usual extra goodies such as PhysX and CUDA support, and you certainly have yourself a very capable package. If you don't want to go down the multi-GPU route, then the what we're looking at in the GeForce GTX 285 is undoubtedly the fastest single chip graphics board on the market.
Product: GeForce GTX 285
Award: CPU3D.com
Recommended Award
Final words. The ENGTX285 TOP will remain in Asus's catalogue as their most powerful single GPU based graphics card so far. The DX10 performance is outstanding. It runs extremely cool and uses all of Nvidia's latest technologies. For now, the Geforce GTX 285 has taken the performance crown from AMD/ATI ... the only let down is price.
Product: GeForce GTX 285
Award: OC3D
Recommended Award
...the single GPU champ has been in training, had a fabrication workout and gone a diet along with a new wardrobe. This has seen the GTX285 perform well but perhaps not the significant increase in performance we were hoping for. However, if you are looking for an upgrade from a midrange card up to hassle free, high-end gaming, I would certainly recommend the Asus ENGTX285 which for now, until the OC revisions are upon us, is the highest performing single core graphics card on the planet.
Product: GeForce GTX 285
Simply put, if you want the fastest single GPU graphics card in your next build, the GeForce GTX 285 is it. Features - 9/10,
performance - 8/10,
value - 6/10, overall - 7/10.
Product: GeForce GTX 285
Bottom line: a faster, better card than GeForce GTX 280, in any flavour, Inno3D's is the first pre-overclocked effort we've seen, and it glides through the benchmarks in serene fashion. High on speed but relatively low on value - a situation, it seems, out of partners' control - we urge readers to wait until pricing drops significantly.
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Product: GeForce GTX 275
Award: Guru 3D Recommend, Top Pick & Great Value award
In general, there's very little negative about the GeForce GTX 275 really, you get the best from both worlds.You will have full support for PhysX and other 3rd party software. Right now there's a handful of applications out there that will utilize the GPU to help out with other functions. Acceleration, enhancing or en/transcoding of video files is probably the more popular functionality, but also Photoshop CS4 recently got CUDA accelerated and helps out in some parts where the CPU struggled. It's a nice development.
Product: GeForce GTX 275
Until now we'd considered the benefits of CUDA and PhysX capabilities on the NVIDIA GPUs fairly irrelevant, but with these two new cards being so close in performance terms you'd have to give the win to the card that offers you more. And the GTX 275 most certainly does that.
Product: GeForce GTX 275
Award: Bit-Tech.net Recommended Award
Considering the Palit GeForce GTX 275 performs identically to the Nvidia stock models available from other board partners, and still holds an overall performance advantage over the Radeon, this makes it absolutely fantastic value. If you’re thinking of picking up GeForce GTX 275 and don't care to faff about with overclocking then the Palit GeForce GTX 275 is the one to get.
Product: GeForce GTX 275
GeForce GTX 275 is a good product based on proven lineage, and it competes against Radeon HD 4890 on an equal footing in most respects. We like the fact that BFG has come to market with a pre-overclocked card, and the OC model stakes a place as solid gaming card at around the £230 mark.
Product: GeForce GTX 275
Award: PC Pro Recommended
Nvidia has the edge with GPGPU functions. The GTX 285 and 295 may be too expensive for serious consideration, but the revised core and slashed price of the GTX 275 makes it a far more tempting proposition.
Product: GeForce GTX 275
Award: Guru 3D Recommended Award
The GeForce GTX 275 was launched with one sole reason only, to battle off the Radeon HD 4890. It's the cat and mouse game that ATI and NVIDIA have to play against each other. Competition is what makes this technology evolve and affordable, don't you ever forget that. By doing so NVIDIA accomplished it's mission absolutely.
Product: GeForce GTX 275
Award: Driver Heaven Heavenly Gold Award - Best In Class
It is clear from the performance figures achieved by the GTX 275 that it is a very desirable product. Throughout our testing the card was often leading the pack and regularly produced higher minimum framerates than the competition. CUDA/GPU computing continues to impress us and new additions such as vReveal detail just how useful and flexible the GeForce GPU can be. They should have a very popular product on their hands and one that it is hard not to recommend.
Product: GeForce GTX 275
...which would we choose if given £200-£225 right now? We'd give the nod, just, to the GeForce GTX 275, because it matches the Radeon HD 4890s on price and performance, is a little quieter, draws a touch less power when idling, and is backed up by more-robust GPGPU environment.
Product: GeForce GTX 275
If you tend to leave your computer on for long periods of time when not gaming, you may appreciate the lower idle power of the GTX 275. Likewise, the wider software support for CUDA, over ATI Stream, may attract you to side with NVIDIA, especially if you work with video a lot - be it editing or trans/encoding
Product: GeForce GTX 275
Award: Bit-Tech Recommended Award
For ATI to deliver more performance to trump Nvidia's GTX 275. ATI will have to push the clock speeds even higher, producing an even hotter, more expensive and probably louder card. Either that, or it'll have to look into a re-vamped HD 4850 X2 card based on a pair of RV790 GPUs (likely downclocked and with the GDDR3 memory controller enabled).
As it stands, the GTX 275 with the ForceWare 185.65 beta driver is the clear choice.
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Product: GeForce GTS 260
Award: Driver Heaven Heavely Gold Award. Best in Class.
Asus have produced a card complete with great features and performance that enters the market at exactly the right price point to be a real winner. They haven’t skimped on the bundle either and have included all of the accessories you could need, including an HDMI adaptor and S/PDIF cable.
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Product: GeForce GTS 250
Award: Guru 3D Great Value Award
...the price is the real reason that I like the GeForce GTS 250 as I believe that 139 USD is just a very fair deal. Should you go for 1024MB of memory? Well, I tend to say yes. The price is only ~25 USD higher and especially with modern DX10 titles we start to see the benefit of more than 512MB memory.
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Product: GeForce 9300 (MCP7A)
...compared to other integrated graphics motherboards it's advantages are obvious: dual digital video outputs, great HQV and a perfect HD HQV score, solid reliability from the chipset that shouldn't even need fan providing the environment is cool enough... being stable and for HTPC playback it's the best Intel solution currently available. The Nvidia GeForce 9300 gives it an underlying boost to be something great with dual digital displays, perfect HD HQV numbers (that we've not seen before) and Blu-ray playback that the Intel G45 can't match. It should make for a very compelling HTPC purchase.
Product: GeForce 9300 (MCP7A)
MCP7a does still appear to be a great chipset on paper provided you're interested in HTPC features. Using Nvidia's on words though - a slideshow is one thing, but actually using the final product is another - so check out our Zotac GeForce 9300 review to find how we actually get on with it.
Product: GeForce 9300 (MCP7A)
MCP7A represents class-leading IGP performance on an Intel S775 platform, sure, but its main raison d'etre appears to be in mobile form, arriving sooner than you think. The Good - Comfortably better than Intel G45 (X4500HD) for 3D work. Useful as a base for an Intel-oriented HTPC setup. CUDA and PhysX make a little more sense now.
Product: GeForce 9300 (MCP7A)
...the new chipset supports Cuda acceleration and video transcoding to convert video from one size/format to another e.g. for your iPhone. Fair enough, if you intend to use your integrated PC for relatively serious work you will probably find that 9300M/9400M has an advantage over G45... nVidia's new 9300M brings some good features to the motherboard table
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Product: Acer AspireRevo
Award: PC PRO Recommended Award
Verdict: Finally, the first genuinely desirable nettop, thanks to an HD-capable graphics chip. ...right now the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 stands alone as the first nettop PC we'd genuinely consider buying for our living rooms.
Product: ION
NVDIA Ion is potentially a very promising platform. It will break away from a lot of restrictions currently found in Intel's chipset solutions for Atom based netbooks and mini-PCs.
... ION might be the best thing since sliced bread !
Product: ION
The boast is that with NVIDIA ION and "premium" versions of Microsoft Windows, small form factor notebook and desktop PCs will get "rich" media capabilities and full graphics support for the first time !
Product: ION
Microsoft has certified drivers for Windows Vista Home Premium for use with NVIDIA’s small and sexy ION graphics acceleration platform, which juices netbook performance.
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Product: Quadro 5000
…iRay looks to be a very exciting technology. It’s not until you see it working directly inside a CAD application that you realise its true potential for transforming product development workflows.
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Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
The definition of a personal supercomputer goes something like this: it is inexpensive, can sit on a desk, plugs into a wall socket and is at least within jumping distance of the Top500 supercomputing list. By that measure, Nvidia Corp. 's new computer is one of the first arrivals in this emerging product category.
Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
Designed to give researchers the horsepower to perform complex, data-intensive computations at their desk, the Tesla is more of a reference design than an end product. Actual systems will be built and supported by hardware vendors rather than Nvidia.
Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
“The [desktop supercomputer] idea isn’t one that’s just been pulled out of a hat, but previous attempts at desktop supercomputery have all been a bit of a flop (as opposed to FLOPS). But Nvidia seems to think a Tesla desktop might just cut it, and has set about convincing the likes of Dell, Asus, Lenovo, Scan and Boxx to start configuring one up.”
Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
With NVIDIA’s graphics processing unit (GPU) computing technology gaining momentum worldwide, the company is using this year’s Scientific Computing event in Austin, Texas to showcase the most innovative new applications and hardware entering the market.
Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
Yesterday, Tokyo Institute of Technology’s TSUBAME became the first supercomputer to achieve a ranking in the world’s top supercomputers with an NVIDIA Tesla GPU-based cluster. Ranked 29 out of 500, TSUBAME now delivers 170 teraFLOPS of performance through its addition of 170 Tesla S1070 1U systems.
Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
NVIDIA has released its Tesla personal supercomputer that delivers 250 times the processing power of a conventional PC.
Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
Nvidia’s Tesla GPU’s are based on their mainstream GeForce range but use Nvidia’s high-level C-based CUDA programming language to harness the GPU’s highly parallel processing power. This makes them well suited to specialist high performance computing requirements, such as financial modelling and industrial markets, such as the oil industry.
Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
That said, it's not a rig for gamers - well not many of 'em, anyway - but for boffins who need to process highly complex data models. Think Folding@Home running many times more rapidly than it can manage on your own PC CPU's downtime.
Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
It will give you power of the traditional supercomputer cluster at 1/100th of the price and if that is not enough how about a platform based on the company’s new Tesla C1060 GPU Computing Processor which in itself is based on NVIDIA’s CUDA parallel computing architecture.
Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
Nvidia has announced the Tesla Personal Supercomputer, which it says has the power of a cluster of at a small fraction of the cost.
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Product: Tegra APX 2600
Nvidia is showcasing Google's Android mobile operating system running on its Tegra system-on-a-chip mobile phone stack at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Tegra integrates the central processing unit, graphics processing unit, northbridge, southbridge and primary memory functionality onto a single chip, for use in devices such as smartphones and netbooks. Nvidia is showing demonstration and development units running Android on its Tegra APX 2600 processor.
Product: Tegra APX 2600
Nvidia also reckons to have limited a possible downside of the Tegra platform; is its inability to run full versions of Windows, as the ARM11 CPU embedded within Tegra chips can't execute x86 code. To overcome that Nvidia has a "complete software solution including Microsoft Windows Embedded CE OS, application viewers, full Internet browser, UI framework, board support package (BSP), software development kit (SDK), Web mail client, and more" on offer for any manufacturers adopting Tegra.
Product: Tegra APX 2600
NVIDIA'S TEGRA HAS gone paranoid Android at MWC. The firm was earlier seen showing off its Tegra system on chip (SoC), running Google's Android OS and boasting about the firm's new Tegra 600 series platform which purportedly enables a $99, always-connected HD mobile internet device (MID) that can go days between battery charges. MWC seemed the perfect venue for Nvidia to show off Tegra, which integrates a CPU, GPU, northbridge, southbridge and memory controller all on the same little chip, which can be easily bunged into smartphones and little, tiny lappies. Rayfield noted he believed the Tegra-based platform combined "the best of both worlds." Personally, we reckon that 'best' may be taking it all a little far, but what Tegra does sport is 720p and 1080p video playback, Full Wi-fi and 3G connectivity and hardware support for Web 2.0 applications. It's also easy(er) on battery life and supports a Windows CE OS, application viewers, full Internet browser, UI framework, board support package (BSP), software development kit (SDK), Web mail client and a smorgasbord of other features.
Product: Tegra APX 2600
Nvidia has introduced a new platform, based on the Nvidia Tegra 600 Series computer-on-a-chip that the company says will enable $99, always-on, always-connected HD mobile internet devices that will go days between battery charges. The Tegra MID will deliver 720p and 1080p video playback, "days" of use between charges, full Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity and "optimised" hardware support for Web 2.0 apps. In addition, Nvidia promises a complete software solution including Microsoft Windows Embedded CE OS, application viewers, full internet browser, UI framework, software development kit, Web mail client, "and more".
Product: Tegra APX 2600
Nvidia has suggested that its Tegra chipset should see the arrival of a £70 mobile internet device with HD video playback. The 'computer on a chip' Tegra concept from Nvidia shown at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, runs Windows CE and has a slide-out keyboard. But it is perhaps the price point that will conjure the most interest, with a $99 estimate for the device. The device appears to be firmly picking a spot between two stools - netbooks and smartphones - but if the price point is right then it could well tap into a new market in the same way as the Eee PC opened up sub-notebooks.
Product: Tegra APX 2600
NVIDIA claims its TEGRA platform (a low-cost, low-power-consumption chipset combining 3G and WiFi connectivity with HD video recording and playback) will enable $99 MID devices with high-end multimedia and Internet abilities.
Product: Tegra APX 2600
Nvidia has officially announced that it is bringing Android to its Tegra platform, allowing 'advanced user experiences that leverage web and internet content'. The decision to support Android makes the entire Tegra platform more attractive to manufacturers – who can choose between Microsoft's operating system or what is ostensibly Google's.
Product: Tegra APX 2600
Having spent much of this year talking up its netbook offering, NVIDIA today has unveiled a new platform designed for another Intel inspired form factor - the mobile internet device (MID). This new platform is based on the NVIDIA Tegra 600 series ‘computer-on-a-chip'. NVIDIA claims it will enable an ‘always on' MID to go for days between battery charges. The MID is intended to reside somewhere between smartphones and netbooks in terms of size and usage model. Just as netbooks can vary widely in size and functionality, the definition of a MID remains vague. However it aspires to be a truly mobile device (which should mean it can fit in a pocket) with some PC-like functionality.
Product: Tegra APX 2600
Nvidia said Tegra chips would bring advanced graphics capabilities to smartphones while drawing less power. The support for the Android platform is an attempt to drive up Tegra's adoption among smartphone makers. Nvidia is displaying an Android-based phone with a Tegra chip at the GSMA Mobile World Congress being held in Barcelona from Monday to Thursday. Tegra-based phones will combine advanced graphics, better battery life and always-on Internet access… Smartphone makers can now use the Android platform to build Web 2.0 and Internet-based applications for Tegra-based smartphones.
Product: Tegra APX 2600
Want an internet handheld for under $100? That's what Nvidia is promising, courtesy of its ARM-based system-on-a-chip family, Tegra. Nvidia also used Mobile World Congress today to tell all that Google's Android runs on its new Tegra APX 2600 SoC - a possible basis for the next iPhone, it's said - thanks to "close work" between the chip maker, the online advertising company and the Open Handset Alliance.
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Feature: CUDA
Although we’re excited about the power of dual- and quad-core CPUs, consider the potential of an integrated circuit with many hundreds of cores – and these are already in your desktop or laptop PC in the form of a GPU, intended to accelerate graphics processing. In addition, board-level GPU products are becoming available as are preconfigured ‘personal supercomputers’.
RISK Magazine
Feature: CUDA
When Sony launched its Playstation 2 games console in 2000, its graphics processor chip was so powerful that the Japanese government classified it as a weapon. Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) are orders of magnitude more capable than conventional computer processors - and may open the door to faster modelling of complex, long-dated derivatives. The highest performance GPUs, like the NVIDIA Tesla chip, manufactured for specialist applications such as climate modelling and astrophysics, are faster yet, running at several hundred gigaflops.
Feature: CUDA
Nvidia’s director of product management for PhysX, Nadeem Mohammad, agrees,telling Custom PC that ‘all the simple, complex operations’ involved with path finding and collision detection ‘are all very repetitive, so path finding is one of the algorithms which does work very well on CUDA.’
Feature: CUDA
Nvidia and AMD are working with games and middleware developers to take the most common AI routines - 90 per cent of the time these perform simple visibility and path finding queries – away from the CPU and across to the graphics card to process instead.
Feature: CUDA
Once was a time a graphics card handled just that. Graphics. But these days? Nvidia cards already handle physics processing, and by next year both Nvidia and ATI cards might handling AI as well.
This doesn't mean higher prices for new gfx cards, this means that older gfx cards will still be of use. My 9800 GT will turn into a PhysX card after my next hardware upgrade.
Do you remember what the first 3D games looked like and how long it took the industry to actually make them look better than a bunch of glowing boxes? Well, we're seeing the same evolutionary steps happen right now with Physics, AI, and other new aspects of gaming.
Feature: CUDA
Award: Number 4 in Top 10 Trends for 2009
Graphics Processing Units have become just as powerful as CPUs and highly parallel tasks such as simulation and rendering can be offloaded to the GPU or even multiple GPUs. NVIDIA is leading the charge with its CUDA programming language. Adobe delivered the first mainstream application of GPGPU last year with video encoding in CS4. Expect to see some developments in the CAD/CAM/CAE sector this year.
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Product: GeForce 3D Vision
Perhaps the final point in the PC's favour is the sheer processing power a good gaming PC has. An up-to-date gaming PC plays video games with unbeatable graphical detail and sound. Gamers who crave the 3D gaming experience touted by Sony for the PS3 can find that PCs are more than up to the job.
There are more than 400 titles 3D-ready; all you need is the NVIDIA GeForce 3D Vision Kit. And nearly every new PC game released is 3D-ready. Once again, the quality rendered on screen by a top-level gaming PC can't be matched by consoles.
Product: GeForce 3D Vision
If Nvidia was looking to impress us, then it succeeded. Our own gaming setup with just the one screen (in 2D) is going to seem pretty poor from now on.
Product: GeForce 3D Vision
Nvidia 3D Vision is one of the best things that could happen to PC gaming. It's very high-quality, flawless and highly supported. Almost 400 games supported, and that's only the ranked ones, games that haven't been ranked by Nvidia can still work, just some parts may look weird. No doubt about it, this is 5 star quality equipment right here. It's brilliant.
Product: GeForce 3D Vision
You need to try it because if 3D works for you, it's a bigger improvement than the switch from SDTV to HDTV.
Product: GeForce 3D Vision
Award: Hardware Heaven Gold Award
3D Vision and PowerDVD 10 Ultra 3D Mark 2 are an excellent and cost effective way to get Blu-Ray 3D working in the home.
Product: GeForce 3D Vision
...the signs are good, and the technology is convincing and engaging. One thing is for certain though, 3D technology looks set to grow and grow.
Product: GeForce 3D Vision
The effect is pretty stunning, a bit like looking through a window, with a real sense of depth… you can almost reach out and touch it.
NAG (South Africa)
Product: GeForce 3D Vision
Overall, NVIDIA’s 3D Vision is a significant stride in the right direction for PC Gaming, and is a great incentive to invest in a multi-GPU or high-end graphics card setup. Ever-increasing frame rates are great, but for the first time in PC gaming, there’s a real and tangible reason for buying a high-end graphics card. This is one important area where the competition just has no alternative, and in any titles that can take advantage of both 3D Vision and PhysX, there just isn’t an option but to go NVIDIA, as this is truly game changing technology.
Product: GeForce 3D Vision
Award: iGizmo Innovation of the Year 2009
The promise of 3D in the home finally became a reality this year with NVIDIA producing its own set of stereoscopic glasses. Our PCs were magically turned into full-on 3D sets with gaming, movies and photos getting the treatment. Its active shutter lenses give the clearest 3D yet, while remaining within reach of even the more modest pocket.
Product: GeForce 3D Vision
This is a new technology aimed at early adopters, and once you see the results with your own eyes, it's a highly tempting proposition. Yes, it has its early flaws, but with Nvidia wielding such clout in the world of gaming we can see GeForce 3D Vision making slow but steady progress towards the mainstream.
Product: GeForce 3D Vision
The effect is pleasingly solid, the glasses are comfy... It all leaves the future looking closer than ever…
Product: GeForce 3D Vision
NVIDIA 3D vision is the best designed and most considered 3D gaming system yet, with decent out-of-the-box software support and an adjustable, comfortable setup. If you're serious about PC games, you owe it to yourself to try it.
Product: GeForce 3D Vision
NVIDIA has proved that the required hardware does not have to cost the earth, nor do games have to be substantially rewritten.
The future of gaming is here and it is in three dimensions.
Product: GeForce 3D Vision
Once hooked up, sit back and marvel as games literally jump off the monitor in front of you. You won't be able to see the effect in our video, but take our word for it -- it's pretty impressive.
Product: GeForce 3D Vision
GeForce 3D Vision changes all [previous 3D problems] that, leveraging NVIDIA's access to their own drivers (and perhaps equally importantly to developers) to make supporting stereoscopic gaming both an easier and more reliable premise, while having control over the hardware side of the equation also means that they can keep control over its quality, to ensure that the days of flickering and headaches are removed from the mindset of anyone considering such a setup....so far I've heard a lot of positive things from people who have had chance to try using a GeForce 3D Vision system, so for hardcore gamers it could serve to be a fun and more immersive way to enjoy gaming, and that can only be a good thing.
Product: GeForce 3D Vision
3DVision does work. That’s as simply as we can put it. Not only does it work, but it actually works very well for the most recent and relevant games, proving perfectly compatible with all the common engines.
3DVision will become a technology which is more viable beyond just the corporate or early-adopter market - and we can't wait!
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Feature: PhysX
Thanks to NVIDIA's PhysX software, there are extra details like flappy plastic sheeting and cloth that catches the wind, or shreds under the weight of gunfire from pursuing helicopters. Textures have been improved too, glistening with surface detail, and the world has been filled out with incidentals like tumbling bricks, warped reflections in shiny pipes, and real-time fog and steam effects.
Feature: PhysX
If you've been waiting for the PC release hoping it would better the two console versions released last year, you're in luck, as it does. Numerous PhysX accelerated physics objects and effects add to an already stunning looking game, such as moving sheets of plastic and low-lying fog, making the world that little bit more believable.
Feature: PhysX
Personally I think the PC version is the strongest release especially if you have the hardware configuration capable of handling PhsyX at high resolution - this really does add a high level of immersiveness to the somewhat bland environments. If you have the money and Nvidia hardware, then this is definitely worth a look
Feature: PhysX
...it's improved on the PC, being easier to make jumps using a mouse and keyboard and with PhysX support, it makes fist-smashing through glass even more satisfying
Feature: PhysX
Award: Bit-Tech.net Recommended Award
Our opinion? The PhysX content is good. It enhances the gaming experience without infringing on it, giving a tangible benefit to being an Nvidia card owner. Running down empty corridors is all very well and good, but it’s always more fun if there’s stuff actively swooshing around you. Swoosh!
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