Gamers who feel the need to make their high-performance rigs the hottest systems in town have a new piece of technology to acquire: graphics developer Nvidia is finally shipping its GeForce 9800 GX2 to retailers, with promises to redefine the high end of the graphics market with blistering response rates and extreme HD gaming.
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Nvidia Unveils New Mobile, Desktop Graphics
Graphics developer Nvidia wants to push your pixels around, and to that end is has introduced two new graphics controllers to help your computers and games look and perform their best. The new Quadro FX 3600M for notebooks aims at the mobile professional market, while the company is kicking off its GeForce 9 series with its new super-fast GeForce 9600 GT for desktop systems.
Nvidia Shoots Out GeForce 8800 GTS 512 MB
Gamers probably don’t want much more for the holidays than the ability to frag more enemies, dominate more arenas, win more races—and look really good while they’re doing it. To that end, graphics developer Nvidia has tolled out the GeForce 8800 GTS video controller with 512 MB of onboard video memory…and the new cards are available at retailers today.
“If you want the best experience on the PC games coming out right now, then buying a new GPU should be top on your list of upgrades,” said Nvidia’s GeForce general manager Ujesh Desai, in a statement. “GeForce 8800 GTS 512 is a fantastic option that we are providing gamers in time for the holiday season.”
Nvidia Aims GeForce 8800 GT at Gamers
Graphics developer Nvidia has announced its GeForce 8800 GT graphics card, the latest entry in the company’s high-performance GeForce 8 series of desktop graphics systems. The 8800 Gt is designed to give gamers high-end processing power and performance at a friendly price.
The PCI-E 2.0 GeForce 8800 GT card sports 512 MB of video memory, a core clock speed of 600 MHz, a shader clock running at 1.5GHz, and a 256-bit memory interface running at 900 MHz. In addition, the card features 112 stream processors individually clocked at 1.5 GHz, full support for Microsoft’s DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 for compatibility with the most demanding games, Nvidia PureVideo HD² technology for quality high-definition video performance,
Nvida Goes Mobile With GeForce 8M
With Nvidia cranking out new versions of the GeForce 8 right and left, it should come as no surprise that their flagship GPU is finally shedding some weight and migrating to notebook computers. The company unveiled the GeForce 8M series on Wednesday, which will bring DirectX 10, HD video processing, and of course – higher performance – to laptops.
While gaming drives the demand for faster GPUs on desktops, notebook users will be able to find other uses for the extra pixel-pushing power. Windows Vista, for one, will take advantage of the GeForce 8M’s DirectX 10 capability with its spiffed-up (and more performance demanding) Aero Premium interface. High-definition movies in the H.264 codec can also use the GPU as a hardware decoder, taking the strain off the CPU.
Newest GeForce 8 Pushes Performance, Price
Shortly after expanding its GeForce 8 line on the low-performance end of the spectrum with budget-priced cards, Nvidia is throwing out an offering for the bleeding-edge crowd with the GeForce 8800 Ultra, announced on Wednesday. According to Nvidia, the newest card will be 10 to 15 percent faster than the GeForce 8800 GTX that it replaces as the flagship for Nvidia’s GPU product line.
Nvidia Launches New GeForce 7900 Cards
Graphics processor maker Nvidia Technologies today launched its new GeForce 7 series 7900 GS and 7950 GT graphics cards, aiming to deliver serious graphics horsepower to gamers and other computing enthusiasts without setting their bank accounts into semi-permanent overdraft status.
NVIDIA Goes AGP With GeForce 7800
NVIDIA today announced they were bringing their GeForce 7800 GS graphic processing unit to AGP-based systems. The first AGP graphics cards based on this GPU, from manufacturers such as Asus, Gainward and PNY Technologies, will be available in retail outlets beginning Feb. 5.
The new GeForce 7800 GS AGP GPU, said NVIDIA, will offer a host of features including support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 and high dynamic rendering in order to deliver better realistic quality to games, an optimized architecture for Microsoft Windows Vista to better support its 3D graphical user interface and video processor and software technology to deliver high quality video playback.
Nvidia Boosts GeForce 7800 GTX GPU
Graphics processor company Nvidia today announced an upgrade to their popular GeForce 7800 GTX graphics chip which has been powering graphics cards from companies like Asus and MSI. The GeForce 7800 GTX 512 graphics processing unit is available now on graphics cards and in computers from select systems builders like Alienware and Falcon Northwest.
The GeForce 7800 GTS 512, said Nvidia, increasing performance over its predecessor by up to 33 percent, boasting faster clocks and twice the memory. Nvidia said one gamer
PNY Overclocks New Vertio GeForce 6800 GS
PNY Technologies today said they were releasing a new overclocked graphics card based upon the Nvidia GeForce 6 series. The Verto GeForce 6800 GS PCI Express is available now for $279.
The GeForce 6800 GS PCI Express features a 470 GPU clock, 256MB of GDDR3 memory with a 1.1GHz memory data rate and comes equipped with DVI + VGA + HDTV/S-Video outputs. It offers Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 support, an integrated HDTV encoder with video scaling and filtering and 64-bit floating point texture filtering and blending.
