Posts Tagged ‘NVIDIA’
Nvidia launches GeForece GT 240
While we wait for Nvidia’s next gen chip, codenamed “Fermi”, the company has followed its old style of re-branding and re-releasing old chips. Well, not quite this time, as the new GT 240 chip is still the same technology, but is built on 40nm process and includes DirectX 10.1 support — at a time where the big deal is DirectX 11.
The new graphics card is mainstream oriented, and should offer decent performance and low power consumption, at a decent price. The chip is outfitted with 96 stream processors clocked at 1360MHz, while the graphics core runs at 550MHz, with idle power load at just 9W. It’ll retail later this week for $99.
Nvidia’s DX11 graphics card delayed until 2010?
Fudzilla claims it has details that point towards Nvidia launching their next generation graphics chip, codenamed Fermi, in January 2010, as opposed to in December, as originally planned. Granted, Nvidia never officially announced a release date, but did mention December as a viable time.
However, DigiTimes — a far more reputable source than Fudzilla — claims that the date is even further into 2010, as Nvidia CEO stated that the card will likely launch in the first fiscal quarter of 2010, which begins in March. If true, this will mean that AMD’s cards, which are already out, will be given a good 6 month head start as the only DX 11 cards available on the market.
Nvidia posts $107m profit in Q3
Despite falling behind in both sales and technology to arch rival AMD, Nvidia managed to turn a solid $107 million profit in Q3, on revenues of $903.2 million, mostly fueled by the mobile and laptop sector. Compared to last year, that’s an increase of 16%, and from the previous year by 18%. The company said that it expects revenues in Q4 to be up 2% from previous year.
The company is set to release their brand new graphics card and technology later this year, called Fermi.
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Resident Evil 5 3D Stereo benchmark tool released
Along with Capcom uncovering the release date for Resident Evil 5, they have also released a benchmark tool to test your NVIDIA 3D performance and experience first hand on how it looks and feels.
If you’re not fortunate enough to have all the gear to run 3D Vision, you can still download the tool and see if your computer is capable of running the game with no problems; the demo runs fine without all the fancy vision kits.
The download clocks in at 581MB and can be downloaded at NZone.
More than 100 million Spore creations created
EA has recently announced that there have been over 100 million created using the Spore Creature Creator to date which includes creatures, buildings, and vehicles.
Also included in the press release was the announcement that the 100 millionth creator will receive a NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT video card, Spore and the Galactic Adventures expansion pack.
Upon reading this announcement I took the time to flip through EA’s Sporepedia and picked out some creations that caught my eye, included above.
Spore Galactic Adventures will hit store shelves on June 23rd for both PC and Mac.
Nvidia countersues Intel
Intel and Nvidia have been fighting over a number of issues for a while, after years of hostile environment between the two chip-giants.
Earlier this year, Intel sued Nvidia for breaching an agreement on chipset licensing for the new Nehalem/Core i7 platform. Nvidia revealed today that they have countersued Intel for breach of contract regarding the SLI license. The suit also terminated Intel’s SLI license as well.
Albatron Nvidia VGA Cards Bundled with Free EVE Online Playtime
A partnership that is aiming to push the new batch of Albatron Nvidia VGA cards is in the works. For gamers who purchase this new graphics card, free playtime for EVE Online will be rewarded to the new Albatron Nvidia VGA graphics card owner.
“There is nothing that comes close to EVE Online as far galactic-interstellar MMORPGs. It is a futuristic adventure like nothing you’ve seen before, rife with both action and strategy. It will be bundled with most Albatron NVIDIA VGA cards allowing you to download the entire game in minutes. Take a look at the awesome trailers on the DVD, try the game and you’ll be hooked.”
The game will be available with the Albatron cards going all the way back to the 9400GT series. Added to this, gamers will get a free month of play for EVE, totaling $14.95 worth of gameplay. I suppose that’s not that bad a deal. Just seems like EVE coming with a new video card is a slightly underwhelming reason for purchasing a video card.
(Source) Cinema Blend
Nvidia brings PhysX to the Wii
Last week Nvidia announced that the PhysX SDK would be available to PlayStation 3 developers for free, and now the graphics/physics company has announced a free SDK for Wii developers as well.
The SDK, which is now available for all registered Wii developers, consists of a fully featured API and physics engine. PhysX has also been available on the Xbox 360 for a while, and is used in titles like Mass Effect and Gears of War (as it’s a part of the Unreal Engine 3).
Nvidia reconsidering GTS 240 re-naming
While ATI went and developed new GPUs, Nvidia has been renaming their line of graphics chips for six months now. Earlier this week, they renamed the 9800 GTX+ to GTS 250, and have been planning on renaming the 9800 GT to GTS 240. However, those plans now seem to be scrapped.
Nvidia originally wanted to “ease confusion” among its products by renaming much of its graphics chips, in reality however, it has only added to the confusion. The 9800 GT, which was supposed to be the GTS 240, has already been renamed once: it was the very successful 8800 GT chip.
Instead, it will still be called the 9800 GT. But in reality it’s the 8800 GT. Confused? So are we.
Best graphics cards for your new rig
Looking to build a new gaming rig and get ready for all of the hottest games this year? Don’t have a budget? Ok good.
TechRadar has recently put up a list of what they think are the best PC video cards money can buy. Yes, that does mean some of them are expensive but whoever said gaming is cheap?
A few cards that made the cut are the Nvidia GeForce GTX 295, ATI Radeon 4870 X2, and the Nvidia GeForce GTX 285. Those are numbers 1, 2 and 3 respectively.
Maybe you need a video card thats good, but a little less expensive. Then head here to see the full article.
3D Gaming and HD Video Coming to Netbooks?
I bet you’ve desperately tried to play games on your newly acquired netbook. Sometimes you might have even managed to make some older games run right? What if NVIDIA or ATI introduced a graphic card in those tiny netbooks? Would you buy netbooks as a gaming device only?
NVIDIA has announced plans to release a mobile GPU, the 9400M to work together with that Intel Atom processors to deliver 3D gaming and HD video to netbooks. The 9400M will get you 1080p video decoding, dual-link DVI out, DirectX 10 graphics, CUDA and OpenGL.
The competition is also going to work out some sort of a solution for netbooks. AMD will roll its Yukon ultramobile platform and it will pair it with a mobile Radeon GPU from ATI.
And let’s not forget about VIA. VIA announced its Trinity platform which will get you a Via Nano processor, the VX800 northbridge and an S3 GPU. It will support too HD videos and DirectX 10 gaming.
It all sounds good, but I don’t see myself playing games on my netbook. How about you?
via Arstechnica
NVIDIA 1.5GB Quadro FX 4800 to Power Up Future Gaming Machines?
What graphics card do you currently posses? Do you use it much for playing games or you’re just a console gamer?
Well this NVIDIA 1.5GB Quadro FX 4800 card might make you think twice about switching to playing games on your computer. Sure you might want to choose the 5800 high-end version which costs only $3,499. For those of us on a budget there’s always the 4800 which is the cheaper solution at half the 5800’s cost. The 4800 has a GT200 graphics processor with 1.5GB of memory will handle perfectly the work load on that workstation of yours. But unfortunately it might not be the designated card for your PC gaming.
And if you are looking for a graphics card of any sort make sure you check ATI’s offers. They could get you the same performance for the cheaper price.