| NVIDIA nTeresting News - August 9, 2011 |
| Wednesday, 10 August 2011 | ||
NVIDIA nTeresting News - August 9, 2011In this Issue
Merry Xmas, 3D Continues To Snowball This week I had the opportunity to see the upcoming game title Batman: Arkham City in 3D. It is stunning. CNET thinks the new Toshibia Qosmio X775-3DV would be a good place to play, after giving that notebook and Editor's Choice Award.
"The Toshiba Qosmio X775-3DV78 is a stereoscopic 3D laptop with excellent CPU performance and high-end graphics. The NVIDIA 3D Vision system works as advertised." Another cool title on the way is the Rise of Immortals: "Petroglyph today announced that it is bringing NVIDIA 3D Vision support to its eagerly anticipated Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game, Rise of Immortals at launch. PC gamers with a NVIDIA GeForce 8-series or higher graphics processing unit (GPU) and compatible 3D Vision ready display will be ready to play Rise of Immortals in 3D when the game is released this summer." Can't wait for Christmas to get your fight on? Try the just released Super Street Fighter IV is 3D. It blew me away. "With the new drivers, the 3D instantly became compelling. Fortunately, only the special kill combos actually popped out of the screen - like a punch heading toward your own head! All of the rest of the action stays within the screen and the 3D effects are awesome." Another good way to get ready for the games of Xmas is the new 3D Vision ready monitor form Viewsonic. "Still lookin' for that perfect 3D display, are you? ViewSonic would be absolutely thrilled to make your short list, with the 24-inch V3D245 making its debut this morning. Unsurprisingly, this one's arriving with a 1080p LED-backlit panel, and it'll be joined by an inbuilt NVIDIA 3D Vision wireless emitter and a pair of 3D Vision glasses." If you are not playing your PC games on a GeForce PC, you are not getting the most out of your gaming experience. You are missing out on HD picture quality, 3D effects and realistic physics. Heck you might as well be playing on the dumbed down console port. "Despite the relatively simple gameplay, which was only slightly improved upon from the original Alice title, the addition of advanced PhysX and 3D Vision effects really elevate the already remarkably ambitious art design beyond any adventure platform game could ever have achieved. The gameplay switches into different styles but the narrative remains solid throughout and the action is always engaging. I was apprehensive at first and wasn't sure if the sequel would live up to the hype of the original, but now I'm glad to be wrong. If you have been waiting for this game, you should not pass up the opportunity of playing it on the PC. High resolution and textures? Advanced physics enhancements? Full 1080p 60Hz gaming? If these are experiences you'd be willing to skip while you tolerate console gaming, then you probably need to be institutionalized." But Remember, all 3D set-ups are not created equal. "There is nothing wrong with using NVIDIA on an AMD system. The 3D Vision is a lot better than AMD's HD3D. I purchased a monitor that has both so I could be able to do either. After using AMD's for a day or 2, I then tried NVIDIA's 3D Vision. It's a lot better. 1080p and easier/better to use software Vs. 720p max res and 3rd party software you have to also purchase, which is not as good." With GeForce GPUs you get the best graphics, and you get ‘graphics plus'. SLI, PhysX, 3D Vision, CUDA and DirectX 11 tessellation performance are just a few things that set NVIDIA GPUs apart from the competition.
J.P. Morgan Sees 40X Speed Boost from Tesla GPUs Last week, we announced that investment banking leader J.P. Morgan is using Tesla GPUs to speed up its risk calculations. The financial giant found that using GPUs as companion processors accelerated application performance by 40X compared with running them on CPUs alone. This not only allows J.P. Morgan to run these processing-intensive calculations in minutes instead of hours (they formerly ran them overnight). It also lets them slash the cost of running these calculations by a whopping 80 percent. The Wall Street Journal wrote a nice story about this, saying: "NVIDIA GPUs that have been added to J.P. Morgan servers-working as accelerators alongside x86 processors-have generated peak performance that is in excess of 100 times faster than microprocessors alone for some kinds of computing tasks" J.P. Morgan is only the latest example of an ongoing trend among financial companies to embrace GPU computing. Other companies to do so include Bloomberg, BNP Paribas, Standard Life, and Hanweck Associates.
The Year of Android: The Year of Tegra "The numbers make it clear: there is no carrier where a consumer doesn't have at least one NVIDIA device from which to choose, most of them giving the consumer only the choice between an NVIDIA device and one other SoC manufacturer if they want a dual-core device. Furthermore, if a consumer wants a dual-core tablet, NVIDIA is the sole choice on the market; NVIDIA has as many or more dual-core devices for sale on every mobile carrier in the USA than any of its competitors.. NVIDIA's strong presence with every major mobile carrier, as well as the fact that its dual-core processor is in more mobile devices than every other SoC manufacturer combined, means you could well argue that the company is the dominant force today in the modern mobile market." The world's first mobile super chip, NVIDIA Tegra brings extreme multitasking with the first mobile dual-core CPU, the best mobile Web experience with up to two times faster browsing, hardware-accelerated Flash, and console-quality gaming with an NVIDIA GeForce GPU.
Related Articles:
|
||
