All Entries Tagged With: "nvidia"
NVidia GeForce Experience app
It’s can be tricky trying to eke out the best frame rates on your NVidia graphics cards, especially when differing display resolutions are taken into account. Now NVidia has launched its GeForce Experience software app, the culmination of a 5-year project at NVidia, where the company has built a data center, complete with supercomputer, crammed [...]
NVidia Tegra 4 – Kepler 28 nm
The NVidia GeForce GTX 680 has been receiving rave reviews, thanks in part to its new 28nm Kepler architecture, which involved NVidia completely overhauling its methods of GPU design. That has knock-on effects for mobile devices. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, beamed, ‘Because of Kepler’s super energy-efficient architecture, we will extend GPUs into super thin [...]
Gigabyte P2542G Notebook – Preview
Taiwanese manufacturer Gigabyte unveiled the P2542G gaming laptop at CeBIT in Hannover a couple of weeks back. The Gigabyte P2542G packs in an Intel Ivy Bridge i7 CPU, a 2GB NVidia Geforce GTX660M dedicated graphics card and a full HD 1920 x 1080p screen. P2542G also offers a Blu-ray drive and a THX-certified dual-woofer audio [...]
NVidia Tegra 3 vs Apple A5X
At the iPad Conference in San Francisco we heard Apple claim that their new A5X processor in the new iPad 3 offers 4 times the performance of an NVidia Tegra 3 processor. They were talking about graphic performance of course. No specifics were given however, and NVidia respectfully dismisses these claims. Nvidia, said: “We don’t [...]
NVidia Moves Into Connectivity Chips
NVidia has already shaken up the mobile processor industry, with its quadcore NVidia Tegra 3 processor the latest must-have feature for premium tablets and smartphones. Now the company has released its Icera modem chip, watched nervously by the likes of Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, concerned that their market share might now go the same way [...]
NVidia Profits – Much More To Come
Nvidia has posted Q4 profits of $116 million from revenues of $953 million, outstripping analysts’ expectations, though the company warned of slightly lowered revenues for the current Q1 2012 period, blamed on the hard drive shortage, which is having wider effects in the PC industry as a whole, hurting graphics card sales. The take up [...]
Lenovo tablet with Kal-El and ICS
The tablet world is abuzz with the news that a Lenovo 10.1 tablet is on the way, bearing the new Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS. It is expected to hit stores by the end of the year. It’s the spec that’s raising eyebrows – the new tablet is said to feature an 1.6GHz NVidia Tegra [...]
NVidia Doing Well By Branching Out
NVidia has announced strong figures for the third quarter, thanks largely to runaway sales of Tegra Chips for mobile devices. The first Midgard design, the T604, was announced last year, and is currently licensed by Samsung and LG. NVidia Consumer Products Group, encompassing Tegra processors, saw 14% rise to $191 million in Q3. NVidia has [...]
Tech Tittle Tattle
NVidia has promised quadcore Android tablets by the end of the year, with quadcore smartphones in 2012. The CEO of NVidia, Jen-Hsun Huang said they were the only manufacturer seriously collaborating with Qualcomm, maker of the current generation of dual-core Snapdragon processors. He also hinted that NVidia will enter the mid-range market rather than concentrating [...]
Review: Dell XPS 15z
In the past, the ultra thin laptops were the greatest motivations for Dell engineers and designers, only to fail miserably in one feature or another. It could be a lousy battery life, low performance or just tad too pricey. Now, in 2011, Dell promised something that will balance out all these issues. For quite some [...]
