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NVIDIA has announced that Futuremark games will be using NVIDIA PhysX technology for its new first-person shooter, Shattered Horizon. The game is a first-person shooter that simulates a zero-gravity environment.
Jukka Makinen, Head of Futuremark Games Studio said “Shattered Horizon has a real space setting that offers gameplay, tactics, and freedom of movement that cannot [...]
UK notebook manufacturer Rock have announced the 15.4-inch Pegasus 520, the world’s first notebook to be powered by NVIDIA’s new 9650M GT graphics. The 9650 GT has 1GB of dedicated VRAM, NVIDIA’s second-generation PureVideoHD video engine and full 1080p support, and in the 520 is coupled with an Intel T9500 Core 2 Duo processor, up [...]
For those of you who were affected by defective NVIDIA GPUs Dell is offering to extend your warranty by 12-months by way of a “limited warranty enhancement.” The warranty enhancement would allow customers who purchased a potentially defective GPU to get it fixed/replaced for an extra year past their original warranty.
More laptops, netbooks and mobile workstations than you could shake the proverbial stick at this week, with fresh offerings (and more than a few rumors) from many of the big companies. HP took the wraps off of three mobile workstations, complete with an amazing 17-inch DreamColor option, while Dell and Lenovo both had a version [...]
NVIDIA is demonstrating its latest efforts in interactive ray tracing at SIGGRAPH 2008, using four next-generation Quadro GPUs in an NVIDIA Quadro Plex 2100 D4 Visual Computing System to show linear scaling during rendering of a complex, two-million polygon, anti-aliased automotive styling application. The images here are taken from the demo, which managed 30fps 1920 [...]
NVIDIA has begun shipping out beta Open GL 3.0 graphics drivers. NVIDIA has played a huge role in creating the API for the 3D graphics drivers which got a major library reworking with this release. The beta version is designed to give software developers a look at the new drivers so they can better create [...]
NVIDIA has announced its Q2 revenue figures and, as expected, the company has posted a revenue loss compared to the same period last year. Revenues for the most recent three month period were $892.7 million, while those of the same period $935.3 million, a decrease of 5-percent. The loss, the company’s first in five years, [...]
NVIDIA is offering PhysX and CUDA support to GeForce 8, 9 and 200-series graphics cards via a Power Pack download for free.
I generally try to stay on top of things when it comes to the components in my gaming rig. I usually try to buy a new graphics card once, maybe twice a year, and generally don’t go for the top-of-the-line card. Despite generally being up-to-date, I really haven’t considered purchasing a separate physics card, even [...]
It’s been a while since anything Transmeta has shown up on the radar, but the company has just licenced its LongRun and LongRun2 low-power technologies to NVIDIA. Costing a non-refundable license fee of $25m, the technologies are described as “a suite of advanced power management, leakage control and process compensation technologies” that reduce overall power [...]
