NVIDIA 3D TV Play is Here
“But if you’re an early adopter looking to buy a first-gen 3D HDTV and Blu-ray player, you’d be crazy to not also think about grabbing a gaming PC that can handle 3D games. Because trust me, you’ll use that a lot more often than you’ll watch Avatar.”
3DTV Play software lets you connect any compatible NVIDIA GeForce GPU-powered PC or notebook to 3D TVs using HDMI 1.4a/1.4 and use the 3D glasses that come with your 3D TV. NVIDIA 3DTV Play leverages the processing power of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs to deliver the best the PC has to offer:
• Play hundreds of standard PC games in stunning 3D environments
• Watch upcoming Blu-ray 3D Hollywood blockbusters
• View digital 3D photographs
• And even watch streaming 3D movies
Slower CPU+dGPU > Faster CPU+iGPU
The new generation of Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 series of CPU has made people pay closer attention to choosing between a discrete graphics card or integrated graphics card. Some people believe the existing integrated CPU can meet consumers’ demands in 3D games, HD video playback and online games. Not so.
“One low-end CPU pairing with a mainstream discrete GPU significantly outperforms the combination of a high-end CPU and an integrated GPU which is about the same price. As most consumers would like to play games sometimes, it is undoubted that the faster gaming combination of discrete GPU and low-end CPU is your best choice.”
“In the game review, the system with discrete GPU is tens of times faster than the one with integrated GPU as far as the two system sells at the same price. So we recommend for the games that you must build your system with a discrete graphics card which is essential for playing the latest games.”
But now GPUs are for more than games.
“NVIDIA graphics cards work much more efficiently with a large amount of software applications and even offload CPU computing thanks to the support for CUDA mode. On the whole, discrete graphics platform is cost-effective for popular consumers and avoids the bottleneck phenomenon in performance.”
An optimized PC is one that has the correct balance of CPU and GPU horsepower. To get the best experience with today’s visual computing applications you need to make sure your PC has the right mix of CPU/GPU horsepower. Whether you’re using the latest operating systems, viewing or editing photos, finding directions, playing a game, or watching a Blu-ray movie, a balanced PC with an NVIDIA GeForce GPU yields the best experience.
Optimus Is Even Newer, Now
If you have an Optimus notebook, it just got new profiles. A profile tips off the system to the kind of application being used and which GPU makes the most sense for that application. One of the many cool new things Optimus brings to the table is silent updates for profiles. Profiles are pushed out and updated automatically and frequently to ensure the latest new applications are leveraging the NVIDIA GPU if needed. This week, silently and in the background, the first update happened.
New profiles in this update include: Aliens vs Predator 3, Bioshock 2: Sea of Dreams, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, Red Faction: Guerilla, Saboteur, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, AquaMark 3, Dark Void, Mass Effect II, and many others.
NVIDIA Optimus is a game-changer for notebooks. Optimus is automatic and transparent to the end user. Users simply launch their desired application(s) and the technology figures the best processor to do the job.
GeForce GTX 480 has a Good Hair Day
The release of GeForce GTX 480 and 470 is imminent. They will deliver unparalleled 3D realism, brilliant DirectX 11 graphics, and immersive NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround gaming, all with incredible performance. We showed off their capabilities at GDC this week in demos featuring photorealistic waves, gently waving grass and beautifully rendered, flowing human hair. The demos are powered by the new DirectX 11 API running on NVIDIA’s next-generation GeForce GTX 480 graphics card.
“These simulations illustrate the kind of scenes that can be depicted using the highly scalable tessellation engines in GeForce GTX 480. With NVIDIA’s newest GPU, developers can incorporate an extraordinary level of geometric detail in their upcoming games."
In our DX11 hair demo, hair strands are fully simulated, created and rendered on the GPU using DX11. Tesselation is used to simulate the hair using the DX Compute Shader; hair is rendered using DX11 tessellation engine. At full level of detail, we are rendering more than 18,000 strands (more than 2.8 million triangles).
Our DX11 Island demo is a large scale water and terrain with wave simulation. The terrain uses DX11 tessellation and delivers a dynamic level of detail (fewer triangles in the distance, more up close). Very little data is sent to the GPU—with default settings GPU creates 11M primitives out of 20k that it gets from the application. The demo runs at ~40 FPS.
Take a look for yourself on these videos.
NVIDIA GeForce®GTX 480／NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 :
Experience heart-pounding, cinematic visuals in stereoscopic 3D with the combined power of DirectX 11, NVIDIA® PhysX® and NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ Surround technologies.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 ／ NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
Next-generation gaming has arrived. NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 480 gives your games an adrenaline shot with the world’s fastest performance and futuristic, visually-stunning graphics. Experience heart-pounding, cinematic visuals on your favorite games with the combined power of DirectX 11, CUDA™, and NVIDIA® PhysX® technologies. And expand your visual real estate across three HD displays in jaw-dropping stereoscopic 3D for the ultimate in immersive gaming. NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 480: pure adrenaline meets visual bliss.
Additional Resources
* NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround requires NVIDIA release 256 driver, two or more graphics cards in NVIDIA SLI configuration, 3D Vision glasses and three matching 3D Vision-Ready displays. See www.nvidia.com/surround for more information.
** A GeForce GTX 480 GPU must be paired with another GeForce GTX 480 GPU (graphics card manufacturer can be different). SLI requires sufficient system cooling and a compatible power supply. Visit www.slizone.com for more information and a listing of SLI-Certified components.
*** Supported video software is required to experience certain features. Visit www.nvidia.com for more details.
**** Upgradeable to HDMI 1.4 support for 3D formats with upcoming NVIDIA 3DTV Play software. See www.nvidia.com/3dtv for more details.
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