New Nvidia GeForce GTX 260M/280M and GTS 150M/160M laptop GPU
The biggest newcomer is the GeForce GTX 280M, which NVIDIA claims is “the fastest laptop GPU on the market, with up to 50 percent more performance than previous generation enthusiast laptop GPUs.” The company is also pushing out the somewhat less exciting GeForce GTX 260M, GTS 160M and GTS 150M, all of which feature the company’s own CUDA compiling architecture and support PhysX gaming effects. ASUS, Clevo and MSI are all showing new laptops based on the new GeForce GTX 200M and GeForce GTS 100M Series GPUs here in Hannover, though there’s no word on when they are shipping. Read
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Rumor: Mac mini to use Intel Atom, Nvidia Ion?
Tom’s Hardware reports that the expected Mac mini refresh will be coming in March and will be based on NVIDIA’s new Ion platform utilizing Intel’s dual-core 1.6 GHz Atom 330 processor. The Ion platform, announced in mid-December, also utilizes the GeForce 9400M integrated graphics found in the current MacBooks and MacBook Pros.
The source also revealed that the new Mac mini should be released around the time of the CeBIT computer expo beginning March 3rd in Hanover, Germany. No pricing information has been revealed, but Tom’s Hardware believes that the new Mac mini will be priced in the same $500-$700 range as the current model. They also believe that the use of this platform will enable Apple to reduce the size of the already-diminutive Mac mini.
Evidence found in OS X configuration files in mid-December has pointed to the use of NVIDIA chipsets in upcoming Mac mini and iMac revisions, but this is the first indication that Apple plans to use Intel’s low-power Atom processor instead of the larger Core 2 processors found in Apple’s notebook computers and the current Mac mini.
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NVIDIA: GeForce GTX 285 & 295 official, new mobile chipsets
Did you think Nvidia will forget about their mobile gamers as well? Wrong. They just announced G100M series, with the first one in these series are G105M, G110M, and GT 130M. The G105M is replacing the 9200M GE with a 56 percent boost in 3DMark Vantage.The G110M, meant to replace the 9300M GS, beats the old one by 35 percent, and the GT 130M beats the old 9600M GT’s score by 17 percent. Read
Josh’s Verdict: Can’t wait for these new graphic cads. And TRY looking for where I stole this article
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NVIDIA reportedly urging customers to buy new problem-free GPUs
NVIDIA has yet to step in and confirm this publicly, but a purported leaked memo from the outfit has been posted over at VR-Zone. What’s it say, you ask? Only that the company “strongly recommends that customers transition to the latest revision of the NB8E-SET GPUs as soon as possible.” Said revision taps a new Hitachi underfill packaging material that “improves product quality and enhances operating life by improved thermal cycling reliability.” If you’ll recall, certain PC vendors such as Dell issued their own firmware updates to combat the weak packaging set in the chip maker’s faulty GPUs earlier this year, but it appears that NVIDIA’s solution is to just let bygones be bygones and get on with the new and improved. Read
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Dell’s XPS 730x H2C Core i7 gaming PC benchmarked and tested
If you thought the original XPS 730 H2C was boss, get a load of this. The incredibly diligent benchmarkers over at HotHardware have taken the Core i7-powered XPS 730x H2C under their wings for a fortnight of testing, and they’ve got a baker’s dozen worth of review pages to display their findings. We can’t even begin to cover the array of graphs, bar charts and triple-digit FPS numbers here, but we can tell you that critics were duly impressed with how well the Core i7 performance compared to older Core 2-based offerings. Gaming performance was predictably “fantastic,” and even the single GeForce GTX 280 that it was packin’ held its own under pressure. All in all, this fanciful machine was deemed “a worthy update to what [reviewers] thought was the best XPS 700 series system to date,” and if you’ve got the coin, you’ll probably be incredibly pleased with what it delivers. Dive deep (and we mean deep) in the read link.
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NVIDIA delivers 1.5GB QuadroFX 4800 workstation graphics card
NVIDIA‘s Quadro FX 4800 might not be nearly the beast that the 5800 is, but it’ll only run you an arm and three-quarters of a leg versus every limb you’ve got. The GPU gurus over at HotHardware were able to grab hold of the 1.5GB monster, complete with a GT200 graphics processor and a sticker price around half of that shown on the aforesaid 5800 ($3,499). The board features a 602MHz GPU clock speed, 192 stream processors, an 800MHz GDDR3 clock speed, 384-bit memory controller and a PCI Express 2.0 x16 connector. So, how does the $1,999 workhorse stack up? Hit the read link for the full report, but the gist of it is this: it’s a stellar piece, but ATI’s FirePro V8700 was found to provide “similar performance (and in some cases, more) with a roughly 25% lower price.” Choices, choices. Read
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 gets official
Read – HotHardware, “NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 Specifications Unveiled”
Read – bit-tech.net, “First Look: Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 295 graphics card”
Read – Guru 3D, “GeForce GTX 295 Preview”
Read – PC Perspective, “NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 Preview – Performance King Returns”
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Nvidia releases Ion Platform for Intel Atom
We all know that you can’t trick someone into falling in love with you (unless in you’re in a movie with Kate Hudson — in which case the results are sure to be hilarious), but it looks like the kids at NVIDIA are looking to do just that. It’s been previously rumored that NVIDIA’s been working on Atom support in its MCP79 chipset, and now the company’s in Taiwan, trying to rally support for a crazy scheme whereby PC makers will demand that Intel begin selling them Atom CPUs without bundling in their own graphics chipsets. And if that weren’t enough, the GPU maker releases their Ion platform today, designed to replace Intel’s graphics chipset on Atom systems. There’s no word on how Intel will react to these saucy moves, but we’re guessing that at the very least the chipmaker is a little flattered.
Read – Nvidia working with PC makers to force Intel to open the Atom platform
Read – Nvidia Goes Netbooks: Releases Ion Graphics Platform for Intel Atom
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Twin-GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX295 expected at CES
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NVIDIA chipset support rumored to be coming to Atom-based nettops
We’ve already heard about NVIDIA’s apparent interest in getting into the netbook space, despite the fact that it dropped its own grand designs with VIA not too long ago, and it now looks like it could be wrangling its way into other Atom-based territory as well, at least if DigiTimes’ latest reporting is to be believed. Supposedly, NVIDIA has been working on getting its MCP79 chipset to support Intel’s Atom processors, but it’s apparently only focusing on desktop-bound nettops during the “initial period,” and leaving the more plentiful netbooks for another day. Unfortunately, there aren’t many more specifics than that, but ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI are apparently welcoming the partnership, and saying that it’ll give them “more pricing flexibility.”
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