NVIDIA nTerresting News - 4 June 2010

In this Issue:

• NVIDIA brought the 3D Experience to Computex, and walked away with some high honors.
• 3D is everywhere - movies, TV, photos and games - so make you next PC a 3D PC.
• Sixteen new Optimus systems found their way to Computex - consumers now have over thirty Optimus-enabled notebook and netbooks in almost every conceivable size and form factor.
• GeForce GTX 465 GPUs bring DX done right to the performance segment.
• The list of Top 500 Supercomputers in the world was released and a GPU powered system debuted at #2, but had the fastest peak performance.

The 3D Experience: Computex 2010

NVIDIA brought the 3D Experience to Computex in Taipei Taiwan and kicked it off this week with a keynote on Monday afternoon. Following the press conference, gamers tried their hand against local Street Fighter 4 professionals at NVIDIA's nightly Game Night event. We even walked away with two best of show awards with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 winning the ‘Jury Special Prize' and ASUS G51 & 3D Vision winning this year's highest honor ‘The Best Choice of the Year' award.

3D PCs have arrived

3D Entertainment and 3D gaming have been buzzing at a fevered pitch, with NVIDIA leading the charge of 3D gaming for over a year. We are expanding our 3D ecosystem with products like 3D Vision, 3DTV Play and 3D Vision Surround in order to take advantage of the huge momentum behind 3D content such as: 3D movies, 3D photos, 3D Blu-ray movies, online streaming 3D Content, and 3D videos.

The industry has taken notice and we are seeing the next PC category emerge, the 3D PC.

"The growing 3D trend has spread from cinemas to TVs and now to computers, with PC makers including MSI and Asus showing off All-in-One PCs at Taiwan's Computex show this week that can play back 3D movies, games and Internet content."

By definition, a 3D PC is a desktop or notebook PC that meets the following minimum requirements:

• Includes a pair of 3D active-shutter glasses (like the 3D Vision kit from NVIDIA), enabling the only solution to provide full resolution 3D to each eye.
• An 120Hz 3D-capable display in the form of a desktop LCD monitor,3D projector, 3D TV, or a notebook PC with an integrated 3D-capable LCD.
• A discrete graphics processor (like a GeForce GPU from NVIDIA) that is capable of delivering high definition imagery to the 3D display.

Asus is breaking ground with 3 new 3D PCs: an all-in-one desktop, a notebook, and 3 monitor HD 3D surround rig for the extreme gamer. Toshiba was also showing off a 3D notebook PC. Sony even introduced a 3D camera and Samsung a 3D camcorder.

This emerging PC category seems like a natural evolution for the PC.

"3D is beginning to take hold in a big way. The cinema is experiencing a massive 3D boom as a result of huge titles like Avatar and Alice in Wonderland, home cinema is also getting in on the act with 3D Blu-rays and TV sets and gaming is about to undergo some serious 3D enhancements. It seems only fair that PCs come along for the ride too."

Optimus is Everywhere

NVIDIA Optimus has been hailed as a revolution for notebook computers because it gives you the performance of discrete graphics while still delivering great battery life.

"I think is fair to say that NVIDIA Optimus is one of the most impressive mobile technologies we have ever seen."

Everybody wants it, and laptop makers are working quickly to adopt it. June is going to be a big month for Optimus and we kicked it off with a bang at Computex where we introduced 16 new NVIDIA Optimus-enabled notebooks at the show, including a unit from Lenovo, and multiple skud from Gateway, Packard Bell and MSI. Consumers can now select from over 30 Optimus enabled notebooks and netbooks in nearly any notebook category, and options are only growing.

DX11 Done Right, The Revolution Continues

We also announced the GeForce GTX 465 GPUs at Computex. Based on NVIDIA's GF100 architecture, the GTX 465 brings the GTX 400 family to a lower price making it more accessible for gamers to experience next gen gaming.

"The GeForce GTX 465 is quite possibly the most powerful DirectX 11 graphics card for under $300.00!"

GeForce GTX 400 GPUs were designed from the ground up for tessellation, the most important feature of DX11. With up to 8x the raw tessellation performance of the competition, GTX 400 GPUs are true tessellation monsters.

"In the Heaven benchmark, which makes heavy use of DX11's Tessellation feature, the GeForce GTX 465s beat every single-GPU powered Radeon."

The new GTX 400 GPUs support CUDA, PhysX, SLI, and 3D Vision Surround technologies, which when combined take PC gaming to the next level. Buy yours now, they are available online or in stores!

#2 on the Top 500

Early this week at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, the latest Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers were announced. Two new GPU-enabled systems featuring NVIDIA Tesla 20-series GPUs were featured prominently. These 2 new systems join Tokyo Tech's Tsubame 1.2 supercomputer which was upgraded with GPUs for the November 2008 Top 500 list.

"The blade system uses Intel X5650 processors and NVIDIA Tesla C2050 GPUs to achieve a theoretical peak performance of 2.98 petaflops per second, or PFlop/s, according to the latest Top 500 list of supercomputers in the world. That makes it the fastest supercomputer in the world when measured by peak performance."

The system from CAS was ranked at # 19 and the Dawning-built system was ranked at # 2. The Dawning-built system is the first Petascale supercomputer to use Tesla 20-series GPUs.

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