| NVIDIA nTeresting News 12 April 2011 |
| Saturday, 16 April 2011 | ||
NVIDIA nTeresting News 12 April 2011In This Issue:
Windows on ARM on Tegra "April 12, 2011 will stay remembered in the history of ARM community. During their own MIX 2011 conference, which is being held in Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, NV - Microsoft demonstrated Windows 8, their next-generation Operating System and Internet Explorer 10, their next generation browser - both running on an NVIDIA Tegra development platform." You can take a look at the demo here: (https://live.visitmix.com/ timestamp 2:03:00).
NVIDIA Everywhere You Look at NAB 2011 "NVIDIA is Everywhere at NAB," and we truly are, "...cementing [NVIDIA's] place as a guiding force behind much of the production and broadcast business. With capabilities in the compositing, rendering, live editing, and routing spaces, it's really no surprise, but the sheer number of booths they are in at NAB is impressive." There's also Adobe's launch of Creative Suite 5.5, including Premiere Pro CS5.5 , with improvements in CUDA processing and the Mercury Playback Engine, with a slew of new Quadro GPUs based on the NVIDIA Fermi architecture, including mobile, now supported. Also, perhaps the most compelling and impressive demo in our booth has been Perceptive Pixel demonstrating its new Storyboard live presentation application featuring new TouchCast technology on LCD multi-touch systems. With Storyboard, a TV station can assemble on-air stories from an array of rich media content types and templates, including 3D motion graphics and up to 12 live HD video feeds, as well as live, interactive applications such as WSI MaxStorm and Google Earth. TouchCast technology seamlessly hosts other multi-touch interactive applications, including those running on external servers, and integrates them into a powerful, flexible, unified environment which leverages multiple NVIDIA Quadro 6000 GPUs and Quadro SDI capture cards to provide the best possible graphical touch experience. Powering innovation in broadcast, film, and digital content creation-NVIDIA and our partners have been demonstrating it here this week at NAB for all to see. That results in a Best in Show Award for NVIDIA Quadro Cards with CUDA Technology.
3D On the Web Just Got Easier In a statement, David Sayed, senior product manager at Microsoft, said, "with NVIDIA's new 3D video plug-in, developers can now take full advantage of the stereoscopic 3D video streaming support available in the latest version of Microsoft Media Platform Player Framework. Microsoft is delighted to work with Nvidia to deliver exciting functionality and capabilities to help developers build the next wave of websites powered by the Microsoft Media Platform." The MPP Player Framework is open-source code that enables developers to quickly deploy robust, scalable, customizable media-player applications for the Web, based on Microsoft Silverlight and with full support for IIS Smooth Streaming and Microsoft PlayReady DRM. NVIDIA also released a how-to-guide that outlines the key steps and additional components necessary for developers to integrate 3D streaming video capabilities into websites. The 3D video player plug-in and guide are available now at www.3DVisionLive.com/apps.
HTPC? NVIDIA's Got You Covered. "The Asrock Vision 3D HTPC is not only capable of 3D media playback with 7.1 HD audio support over HDMI 1.4a, but users can also enjoy media encoding and even 3D Vision video gameplay." With over-500 games that are 3D Vision ready, that is a heck of a gaming console.
It's All About Developers Almost one year in the making, a few of the major improvements are:
GPU Strong: Top-to-Bottom "The NVIDIA dual GPU GeForce GTX 590 is the best overall AIB in every parameter we measured it. Compared to other dual GPU AIBs, and dual AIBs, It has the highest performance/watt, the highest performance/dollar, the lowest power consumption, the lowest noise, the biggest gain from overclocking, and the best Pmark, regular or over-clocked." In the middle of the stack, the GeForce GTX 460 and 550 Ti are specifically designed for gamers and offer superior price / performance than competitive offerings for this segment. "Pricing is still to be confirmed by AMD, though we expect it to be priced directly against the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti. Unfortunately that means that it's also priced directly against the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1GB edition. And that's a card that takes it to the cleaners for around the same sort of cash." Drop a little further down and we still have the edge. "First, the Radeon HD 6450 isn't a particularly good deal for the money. The GeForce GT 430 can be had for about $5 more right now, and it was faster overall across our test suite.." And that was before we introduced our latest GPU, theGeForce GT 520. It is faster than the Radeon HD 6450 and offers ‘DirectX 11 Done Right' at the lowest cost yet for the desktop channel. It is a perfect upgrade from integrated graphics. "The folks at NVIDIA have just released their new GeForce GT 520 consumer graphics card. Offering yet another leap in graphics performance, the GT 520 replaces their other low-cost GPU the DX11. Ideal for stereoscopic 3D, Blu-ray movies, photos and web, this consumer-friendly card is available immediately-and for around $60, you can pretty much double the graphics performance of your on-board chip. Talk about bang for your buck..." GeForce. Strong. Top-to-bottom.
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