Tag archive: Dan Vivoli

Graphics developer Nvidia might be involved in a budding patent bruhaha with chipmaking giant Intel, but that's not stopping the company from rolling out new graphics cards. Today Nvidia unveiled six new entries in its Quadro FX line of high-performance cards, and a new consumer-friendly Quadro NVS 295 card that has enough oomph to handle two 30-inch monitors…at a price under $100. “Our mission with Quadro is to help… Read More

The addition of PureVideo technology to the GeForce 6 Series of graphics processing units (GPUs) allows for accelerated playback of MPEG-2 and high-definition (HD) video content at home-theaterlevels of quality, resulting in crisp, vibrant and stutter-free video on any display. Enabled by a dedicated, programmable video processing engine found on the Company's GeForce 6 Series GPUs, PureVideo technology eliminates the trade-off in… Read More

3DMark05 is the fifth generation of the product line, which boasts a distribution of over 50 million copies. 3DMark05 sets the standard for accurate and objective measurement of graphics performanceof DirectX 9 in running the next generation of 3D games. 3DMark05 enables objective cross-platform performance comparisons and incorporates many groundbreaking new features and technologies. The all-new engine and tests were developed within… Read More

From the press release: These new products bring the feature set of NVIDIA's flagship GeForce 6800 GPU, including support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 and NVIDIA's revolutionary UltraShadow II technology, to the mainstream market. The GeForce 6600 GT rips through DOOM 3 at a stunning 42 frames per second at high quality, high-resolution (1600x1200x32) settings . "NVIDIA's latest generation of chipsets… Read More

From NVIDIA's press release: NVIDIA Corporation today announced that Intel Corporation will be using NVIDIA's top-to-bottom family of PCI Express graphics processing units (GPUs), as part of Intel's PCI Express-enabled chipset launch programs. Intel has purchased several thousand NVIDIA PCI Express enabled GPUs which Intel will be using for:  Platform Level Testing Software Development Kits Channel Seed Kits… Read More

"Bandwidth has always been a gating factor for 3D graphics and the PCI Express architecture addresses that issue with high frequency, scalable data paths," said Dan Vivoli, executive vice presidentof marketing at NVIDIA Corporation. "PCI Express will be a key enabler of cinematic computing because it delivers the high-speed data transfer rates that NVIDIA needs to push 3D graphic technology tothe next-level." "The adoption of PCI… Read More

The Company has added TV tuner cards with built-in MPEG2 encoding to enable higher-quality TV playback, as well as a feature-rich software suite with DVD decoder drivers for Windows XP Media CenterEdition.  With these new products, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and PC system builders now have access to the most compatible, reliable and complete suite of products for unleashing anew generation of desktop and notebook Media Center… Read More

The NVIDIA Detonator FX is based on the Company's world-renowned Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)-the industry's only true binary-compatible software architecture. This architecture is built toensure software compatibility and stability, enabling the industry's most reliable graphics platform. The NVIDIA Detonator FX drivers deliver significant performance increases and improved image quality, and provide a robust suite of… Read More

By supporting NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) for desktop and notebook PCs, including the new NVIDIA GeForce FX family of GPUs, EA is able to deliver innovative and rock-solid gamingexperiences to PC consumers worldwide. "EA is excited about this relationship as it allows us to continue our long standing relationship with NVIDIA," said Scott Cronce, vice president and chief technology officer at EA. "Working with NVIDIA's… Read More