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Nvidia has put a lot of effort into making the PhysX technology a top competitive one. Its GeForce 8, 9 and GTX 200 Series cards feature PhysX support, and the company has also released the drivers that are supposed to enable the physics on the graphics cards. The green company has tried to make the performance level... |
13 August 2008 09:51 GMT |
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There is not one thing that can point to a bright future lying ahead for the Santa Clara-based graphics manufacturer, NVIDIA. After AMD finally unveiled its dual-GPU GeForce "destroyer," the Radeon HD 4870 X2, the green company announced that its business had not been doing all that well - and it all shows in the Q2 ... |
13 August 2008 06:35 GMT |
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Nvidia has finally released a new series of drivers meant to bring the entire benefits of PhysX technology to its GeForce 8, 9 and GTX 200 graphics cards series. The enabled physics support is supposed to allow gamers to experience real-like graphics on their gaming environment, while developers can design customized... |
13 August 2008 05:12 GMT |
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NVIDIA announced in July that the company had put aside $150 - $200 million to cover "anticipated customer warranty, repair, return, replacement and other consequential costs and expenses arising from a weak die/packaging material set in certain versions of our previous generation MCP and GPU products used in noteboo... |
11 August 2008 04:20 GMT |
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If you are an NVIDIA fan and you are wondering which graphics card manufacturer has the best GTX280-based solution, you should know you can choose from quite a few alternatives. One of them includes MSI's most recent offer, and uses NVIDIA's flagship graphics processor in a factory-oveclocked GeForce graphi... |
8 August 2008 08:17 GMT |
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Transmeta Corporation recently announced that it included Nvidia into its group of LongRun and LongRun2 low-power technologies licensees. It looks like this licensing might keep the company alive for quite a long time. Nvidia had to pay a "one-time, non-refundable license fee of $25 million", which granted the Santa ... |
8 August 2008 03:13 GMT |
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As we are getting closer to NVIDIA's NVISION event, rumors of new high-performance GeForce graphics cards gradually gain more ground. Moreover, this month, the entire industry is all eyes on AMD, which will finally reveal its latest high-end Radeon, also known as the Spartan. And this is how rumors of a 55nm GT2... |
7 August 2008 07:03 GMT |
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Nvidia has recently unveiled some of its plans on the upcoming drivers for its graphics cards, the ForceWare Release 180. The new drivers will be code-named "Big Bang II", and they are going to bring significant improvements on the company's SLI technology support (for those that do not know, the first SLI drive... |
7 August 2008 04:13 GMT |
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Nvidia's M84 and M86 cards turned into a great disaster after all. A lot of consumers were affected by the weak die/packaging material that resulted into the GPUs failing at a certain point. The Santa Clara announced a few weeks ago that it had set aside $200 million to handle the situation, but that might not b... |
7 August 2008 03:11 GMT |
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EVGA has recently informed the public that it will keep manufacturing NVIDIA-based products, contrary to what all the recent rumors have to say. Also recently, it has introduced a new GeForce 9800GTX -based graphics cards. As you probably can imagine, we are not talking about a standard version of the above-mentioned... |
6 August 2008 09:59 GMT |
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It has become somewhat of a trend for NVIDIA's graphics cards to pop up at various online retailers before they are launched officially. We've seen this happen with the company's current lineup, and we are once again witnessing the same thing with one of its upcoming products. However, before jumping t... |
6 August 2008 06:35 GMT |
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Intel has finally allowed the world to take a look at what Larrabee is supposed to look like. The news spread fast, as expected, as the new technology has been said from the beginning to be innovative and lots of rumors have circled around it since its name first appeared on the web. The chip giant promises a lot wit... |
6 August 2008 06:29 GMT |
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Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), a world's leading motherboard, graphics card, barebone system, and notebook manufacturer, has just launched another video card based on the latest NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT graphics processing units (GPU), the N9500GT-512MU-F. The new ECS board comes with 512 MB GDDR3 memory and a... |
6 August 2008 04:19 GMT |
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Given all the recent rumors of NVIDIA's major board partners leaving the Santa Clara-based chip maker, it looks like things aren't all that gloomy, at least as far as one partner is concerned. EVGA, which was reported to have pondered on manufacturing Radeon graphics cards, has infirmed the latest reports a... |
5 August 2008 06:37 GMT |
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Nvidia is getting ready to release some new driver versions that will bring major improvements to its cards. The drivers are expected to mark a "bang", a "Big Bang II" actually, as the Santa Clara-based company talks about the driver releases it has under preparations now. It has given this name to its ForceWare Rele... |
5 August 2008 05:32 GMT |
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PC gamers have quite an interesting week lying ahead, with Intel publishing Larrabee info and feeding details on the x86-compatible GPU, while Advanced Micro Devices is hosting the annual CTO Summit in Reykjavik (Iceland), and Nvidia is expected to release the announced PhysX content pack and also holding the Nvision... |
5 August 2008 04:30 GMT |
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As of late, it has become a general trend for everybody to talk about the hard times that NVIDIA is having in the chipset and graphics market. Rumors have gone so far as to claim that the Santa Clara-based chip maker was about to phase out of the chipset business, thus putting an end to future high-end SLI-enabled mo... |
4 August 2008 08:25 GMT |
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During the second quarter of 2008, a number of 94.4 million graphics cards were shipped by manufacturers, marking a 0.5 percent sequential drop from the first quarter, but a 16 percent rise on the year-over-year basis. The leading company on the market seems to be Intel, which registered a total of 44.67 million unit... |
4 August 2008 06:07 GMT |
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The past few weeks brought a lot of news about NVIDIA, chipset manufacturer and worldwide leader in terms of graphics cards. All culminated with yesterday's news, which informed us that the Santa Clara company was on its way out of the chipset market. NVIDIA's Brian Burke seems to have contacted DailyTech t... |
2 August 2008 03:32 GMT |
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Most recent reports on NVIDIA seem to indicate that the Santa Clara chip maker is far from doing well. All of the company's business sections have to deal with one or another significant issue and, from the looks of it, all of them will most likely leave their mark on the company's overall performance. So m... |
1 August 2008 09:16 GMT |
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Nvidia looks like in a launch spree lately, as another card is stated for release in the weeks to come, the GeForce 9400GS. The card is said to be a less efficient version of GeForce 9500GT graphics board, and will not be available for the retail market, but only for OEMs and System integrators. The card will be chea... |
1 August 2008 06:29 GMT |
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The University of Utah has been recognized as a CUDA Center of Excellence, announced NVIDIA Corporation and the institution. This appointment marks the beginning of an important collaboration between the two organizations. This is the second CUDA Center of Excellence to be recognized after the University of Illinois ... |
1 August 2008 04:52 GMT |
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Although we're not too sure what to make of ASUS' claims of having provided the world's first overclocked 9500GT-based graphics card, fact of the matter is that it has just launched two such cards. Both of them equip an overclocked 9500GT graphics processor and are designed to present entry-level users... |
31 July 2008 09:03 GMT |
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Some of today's high-end computer enthusiasts just won't settle for the stock cooling solution for their latest graphics card, since they will probably want to boost its performance level, by overclocking its GPU, memory and Shaders. Specifically for this type of users, Spire has recently announced a new pr... |
31 July 2008 05:09 GMT |
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Following the news about Nvidia's mobility chips being faulty, ATI, the graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, has released a statement assuring its partners that the ATI Mobility Radeon graphics cards do not experience issues with packaging, as the competing GPUs do. The company also revealed possibl... |
31 July 2008 02:39 GMT |
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According to a recent post on the Expreview website, NVIDIA has secretly equipped its GeForce 9600GT graphics cards with some new 55nm GPUs. Apparently, this took place after the Santa Clara-based graphics manufacturer rolled out its 9800GTX cards, which were the first to be built using the 55nm fabrication technolo... |
30 July 2008 10:59 GMT |
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As you might have heard, a short while back, NVIDIA was rumored to be preparing to bring a second 55nm graphics card based on the GeForce 9500GT GPU. Unfortunately, the Santa-Clara-based graphics manufacturer has already released the card, but has equipped it with a 65nm graphics processor. Still, rumors of a future ... |
30 July 2008 07:02 GMT |
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The NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M GPU with 512MB RAM will be used on the 15.4-inch notebook series. The first mobile PC to feature the graphics processor is the Alienware Area-51 m15x. The GPU has been designed for heavy-duty video processing, and has the ability to dynamically allocate geometry, shading and pixel processin... |
30 July 2008 04:20 GMT |
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It looks like the much anticipated GeForce 9800GT and 9500GT are finally out, with several of NVIDIA's channel partners having already introduced their own versions based on them. As expected, the new GeForce cards are designed for the entry-level and mid-range segments, which means that they will be affordable ... |
29 July 2008 11:02 GMT |
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Despite all the recent articles that claim that NVIDIA is due to launch its latest GeForce cards today, the Santa Clara chip manufacturer might actually have a little surprise in store for everybody. The company could actually release some notebook chips today, pushing the desktop GeForce range back for a later relea... |
29 July 2008 09:05 GMT |
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Talk about an invasion of GeForce graphics cards: Sparkle, one of NVIDIA's channel partners, is expected to launch a series of G92-based cards. To be more exact, we're talking a series of 25, all of which will be based on the GeForce 9800GT or the GeForce 9500GT graphics processors. For the time being, this... |
28 July 2008 06:20 GMT |
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Nvidia has made interesting statements regarding its G84/G86 faulty chips. The graphics cards manufacturer initially announced that only some of its chips experienced problems, and that HP was the only vendor that received them. The company looks to be untruthful, as Dell seems to have unofficially admitted to expe... |
28 July 2008 04:55 GMT |
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NVIDIA's upcoming graphics cards, based on the G92 graphics processor, have been the topic of most of last week's news reports coming in. And, while we're not talking about high-end products, these mainstream, G92-based cards are still interesting enough. On that note, more news about NVIDIA's car... |
28 July 2008 04:41 GMT |
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If you are an NVIDIA fan and you are looking to acquire a new graphics card, then you will probably want to check out EVGA's offer. First off, it has one of the most comprehensive GT200-series offers on the market, so you are bound to find something that comes to meet your every requirement. On top of that, the ... |
28 July 2008 03:09 GMT |
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Elitegroup Computer Systems, or ECS for short, has probably come out with the best graphics offer for all performance-hungry gamers. It is called GeForce 9800GTX Hydra Pack and it has just been announced today by the company.ECS' offer includes not one, but two GeForce 9800GTX graphics cards, cooled down by th... |
25 July 2008 07:00 GMT |
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As you might have learned by now, NVIDIA is expected to add a couple of new graphics cards to its GeForce lineup, some of which are designed for mainstream and entry-level users. Since the launch date is getting noticeably closer (the GeForce 9800GT is set to arrive next week, on July 29), various versions of the car... |
25 July 2008 05:12 GMT |
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Reports on unreleased products sometimes get to be quite overwhelming and the fact that, in most cases, they refer to a release date set in a vague and undetermined future (generally described with the equally vague "soon" term) certainly does not help. This is also the case with NVIDIA's 9800GT, which is expect... |
24 July 2008 09:23 GMT |
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It looks like Sapphire isn't the only graphics manufacturer that likes to experiment with a certain GPU. In fact, one of NVIDIA's partners seems to be doing the same thing with a GeForce 9600 GT card. The partner in question is Zotac, which is rumored to release a new custom-built card, based on the 65nm G9... |
24 July 2008 05:52 GMT |
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Even if NVIDIA is yet to officially announce the 55nm G92 graphics card, the GeForce 9800GTX , most of its board partners have already listed it among other products. Even more, despite the fact that the new cards have barely arrived, one of NVIDIA's best channel partners, BFG, has already come out with an OC ve... |
24 July 2008 04:49 GMT |
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A few weeks ago, we announced a new series of Nvidia GeForce drivers designed to bring PhysX support on the company's video cards. The Santa Clara graphics chips manufacturer demonstrated GPU-accelerated physics on 3DMark Vantage on the GeForce GTX and 9800 boards, leveraging the scores high enough to catch all ... |
24 July 2008 02:51 GMT |
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As we reported in a previous article, NVIDIA's GeForce 9800GTX edition has become available at a number of its board partners. However, even if details such as the specs, pricing and photos of the new graphics card have already been revealed, the green company is yet to officially launch it. Not that this in it... |
23 July 2008 05:14 GMT |
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The G92 series from Nvidia seems to be getting another member pretty soon, as the 9800 GT, a renamed 8800 GT, is rumored to arrive on July 29. The 9800GT represents the third rebranding/renaming of the same chip, which means that we'll be looking at that same G92 made under the 65nm manufacturing process. The ne... |
22 July 2008 05:19 GMT |
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Late last month, Gainward was reported to have started offering graphics cards based on AMD's latest graphics processors. Based on this and on the fact that Intel was said to be in the final stages of completing the Larrabee project, a rumor has begun to spread. Apparently, two of NVIDIA's best partners are... |
22 July 2008 03:31 GMT |
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NVIDIA's newly launched PhysX technology managed to accelerate performance at levels beyond known limits, and that caught everybody's attention. Shortly after this, NGOHQ announced that they were able to port Nvidia PhysX to AMD's Radeon HD 380 GPU. In the following weeks, their action got the blessing... |
21 July 2008 05:24 GMT |
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Futuremark came with a response to the accusations that Nvidia PhysX overwrites Vantage files. They decided that all the results using PhysX on a GPU should be removed from their Hall of Fame. The explanation is that they didn't mean the 3DMark Vantage to work with GPUs supporting PhysX. So, they proceeded to up... |
21 July 2008 04:42 GMT |
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As most of you might know by now, ATI, AMD's graphics subsidiary, will release a new video card that is said to position AMD as the leading graphics card manufacturer. And this is exactly why NVIDIA's current GeForce lineup has recently underwent a series of price cuts, which, looking at things on their bri... |
21 July 2008 03:17 GMT |
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After successfully launching the GT200 65nm, branded as GTX 280 / 260, Nvidia is moving on to the next target, which would be the launch of the 55nm version of the GT200 chip. The Santa Clara company should rush the new chip to the market to provide a powerful competitor to AMD's Radeon HD 4870 X2. The R700 crea... |
19 July 2008 05:07 GMT |
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It's safe to say that most of us believe that the rivalry between the two biggest chip manufacturers is pretty much real and intense. Over time, countless words have been spent on said rivalry, all of them claiming that big players like NVIDIA and ATI have never seen eye to eye. But they do say that, more often ... |
19 July 2008 04:30 GMT |
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Even if most news items about NVIDIA place the green company in not too bright a light, we must not doubt that it will continue to release new products. And that's besides the highly anticipated 55nm GeForce cards, which should virtually put the Santa-Clara based chip manufacturer in the leading position in the ... |
18 July 2008 03:47 GMT |
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Nvidia, a world leader of graphics cards manufacturer, steps up once again with tools that will help game developers on their future creations. The three products delivered by the company are PerfHUD 6.0, FX Composer 2.5 and Shader Debugger (this one requires payment for commercial use). "These new tools reinforce ou... |
18 July 2008 03:17 GMT |
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