Product: GeForce GTX 285
NVIDIA claims the GeForce GTX 285 to be the "fastest single GPU solution available," and quite frankly, it is. The card, essentially an overclocked GeForce GTX 280 built on 55nm technology, fulfils its promise of higher performance and lower temperatures.
Product: GeForce GTX 285
Award: Elite Bastards Elite
Performance Award
It's fair to say that, as a result, the GeForce GTX 285 is noticeably faster across the board with very few caveats, allowing it to enjoy every title at 1920x1200 with anti-aliasing enabled without issue, and frequently making 2560x1600 with AA switched on a possibility, even in the latest games. Add to that the usual extra goodies such as PhysX and CUDA support, and you certainly have yourself a very capable package. If you don't want to go down the multi-GPU route, then the what we're looking at in the GeForce GTX 285 is undoubtedly the fastest single chip graphics board on the market.
Product: GeForce GTX 285
Award: CPU3D.com
Recommended Award
Final words. The ENGTX285 TOP will remain in Asus's catalogue as their most powerful single GPU based graphics card so far. The DX10 performance is outstanding. It runs extremely cool and uses all of Nvidia's latest technologies. For now, the Geforce GTX 285 has taken the performance crown from AMD/ATI ... the only let down is price.
Product: GeForce GTX 285
Award: OC3D
Recommended Award
...the single GPU champ has been in training, had a fabrication workout and gone a diet along with a new wardrobe. This has seen the GTX285 perform well but perhaps not the significant increase in performance we were hoping for. However, if you are looking for an upgrade from a midrange card up to hassle free, high-end gaming, I would certainly recommend the Asus ENGTX285 which for now, until the OC revisions are upon us, is the highest performing single core graphics card on the planet.
Product: GeForce GTX 285
Simply put, if you want the fastest single GPU graphics card in your next build, the GeForce GTX 285 is it. Features - 9/10,
performance - 8/10,
value - 6/10, overall - 7/10.
Product: GeForce GTX 285
Bottom line: a faster, better card than GeForce GTX 280, in any flavour, Inno3D's is the first pre-overclocked effort we've seen, and it glides through the benchmarks in serene fashion. High on speed but relatively low on value - a situation, it seems, out of partners' control - we urge readers to wait until pricing drops significantly.
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Product: GeForce GTX 295
Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 295 retakes the title of the fastest graphics card in the world. Ultimately, it’s going to come down to pricing – if Nvidia’s partners manage to hit the prices we’re being quoted, we’d get the GTX 295 because of its inherent performance advantage in all but a few scenarios.
Product: GeForce GTX 295
Award: Hexus Extreme Speed Award
NVIDIA set out to win back the single-card performance crown and has undoubtedly succeeded. Irrespective of AMD pricecuts, and to NVIDIA's credit, the GeForce GTX 295's architectural efficiency manages to beat out the Radeon HD 4870 X2 in two of the other key non-performance areas - the card is significantly cooler and consumes far less power. All this whilst keeping relatively quiet, too.
Product: GeForce GTX 295
So, the GTX 295 is the fastest graphics card on the planet and it consumes less power than the competition. NVIDIA has aimed for the gaming performance crown with the GTX 295 and it has certainly succeeded...
Most importantly, though, NVIDIA has also regained the price/performance crown, making this the clear choice of ultra high-end graphics cards.
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Product: GeForce 9300 (MCP7A)
...compared to other integrated graphics motherboards it's advantages are obvious: dual digital video outputs, great HQV and a perfect HD HQV score, solid reliability from the chipset that shouldn't even need fan providing the environment is cool enough... being stable and for HTPC playback it's the best Intel solution currently available. The Nvidia GeForce 9300 gives it an underlying boost to be something great with dual digital displays, perfect HD HQV numbers (that we've not seen before) and Blu-ray playback that the Intel G45 can't match. It should make for a very compelling HTPC purchase.
Product: GeForce 9300 (MCP7A)
MCP7a does still appear to be a great chipset on paper provided you're interested in HTPC features. Using Nvidia's on words though - a slideshow is one thing, but actually using the final product is another - so check out our Zotac GeForce 9300 review to find how we actually get on with it.
Product: GeForce 9300 (MCP7A)
MCP7A represents class-leading IGP performance on an Intel S775 platform, sure, but its main raison d'etre appears to be in mobile form, arriving sooner than you think. The Good - Comfortably better than Intel G45 (X4500HD) for 3D work. Useful as a base for an Intel-oriented HTPC setup. CUDA and PhysX make a little more sense now.
Product: GeForce 9300 (MCP7A)
...the new chipset supports Cuda acceleration and video transcoding to convert video from one size/format to another e.g. for your iPhone. Fair enough, if you intend to use your integrated PC for relatively serious work you will probably find that 9300M/9400M has an advantage over G45... nVidia's new 9300M brings some good features to the motherboard table
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Product: ION
NVDIA Ion is potentially a very promising platform. It will break away from a lot of restrictions currently found in Intel's chipset solutions for Atom based netbooks and mini-PCs.
... ION might be the best thing since sliced bread !
Product: ION
The boast is that with NVIDIA ION and "premium" versions of Microsoft Windows, small form factor notebook and desktop PCs will get "rich" media capabilities and full graphics support for the first time !
Product: ION
Microsoft has certified drivers for Windows Vista Home Premium for use with NVIDIA’s small and sexy ION graphics acceleration platform, which juices netbook performance.
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Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
The definition of a personal supercomputer goes something like this: it is inexpensive, can sit on a desk, plugs into a wall socket and is at least within jumping distance of the Top500 supercomputing list. By that measure, Nvidia Corp. 's new computer is one of the first arrivals in this emerging product category.
Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
Designed to give researchers the horsepower to perform complex, data-intensive computations at their desk, the Tesla is more of a reference design than an end product. Actual systems will be built and supported by hardware vendors rather than Nvidia.
Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
“The [desktop supercomputer] idea isn’t one that’s just been pulled out of a hat, but previous attempts at desktop supercomputery have all been a bit of a flop (as opposed to FLOPS). But Nvidia seems to think a Tesla desktop might just cut it, and has set about convincing the likes of Dell, Asus, Lenovo, Scan and Boxx to start configuring one up.”
Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
With NVIDIA’s graphics processing unit (GPU) computing technology gaining momentum worldwide, the company is using this year’s Scientific Computing event in Austin, Texas to showcase the most innovative new applications and hardware entering the market.
Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
Yesterday, Tokyo Institute of Technology’s TSUBAME became the first supercomputer to achieve a ranking in the world’s top supercomputers with an NVIDIA Tesla GPU-based cluster. Ranked 29 out of 500, TSUBAME now delivers 170 teraFLOPS of performance through its addition of 170 Tesla S1070 1U systems.
Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
NVIDIA has released its Tesla personal supercomputer that delivers 250 times the processing power of a conventional PC.
Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
Nvidia’s Tesla GPU’s are based on their mainstream GeForce range but use Nvidia’s high-level C-based CUDA programming language to harness the GPU’s highly parallel processing power. This makes them well suited to specialist high performance computing requirements, such as financial modelling and industrial markets, such as the oil industry.
Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
That said, it's not a rig for gamers - well not many of 'em, anyway - but for boffins who need to process highly complex data models. Think Folding@Home running many times more rapidly than it can manage on your own PC CPU's downtime.
Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
It will give you power of the traditional supercomputer cluster at 1/100th of the price and if that is not enough how about a platform based on the company’s new Tesla C1060 GPU Computing Processor which in itself is based on NVIDIA’s CUDA parallel computing architecture.
Product: Tesla personal supercomputer
Nvidia has announced the Tesla Personal Supercomputer, which it says has the power of a cluster of at a small fraction of the cost.
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Product: Quadro CX
The best video cards available come from NVIDIA and you can get them for a very reasonable price. If you’re wanting to use Photoshop, then either a Quadro or GeForce card will suit your means, but if you’re going to be using other Creative Suite 4 applications, then a Quadro is recommended. The best card you can get at the moment is the Quadro CX, which is billed as ‘The Accelerator For Adobe Creative Suite 4’
Product: Quadro CX
The Quadro CX card has been designed from the outset to take a lot of the processing grunt away from the two or maybe four cores of CPU - and thrash it around in the two hundred or more cores inside what they claim to be the biggest bit of silicon ever used in a modern PC.
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Product: Tegra APX 2600
Nvidia is showcasing Google's Android mobile operating system running on its Tegra system-on-a-chip mobile phone stack at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Tegra integrates the central processing unit, graphics processing unit, northbridge, southbridge and primary memory functionality onto a single chip, for use in devices such as smartphones and netbooks. Nvidia is showing demonstration and development units running Android on its Tegra APX 2600 processor.
Product: Tegra APX 2600
Nvidia also reckons to have limited a possible downside of the Tegra platform; is its inability to run full versions of Windows, as the ARM11 CPU embedded within Tegra chips can't execute x86 code. To overcome that Nvidia has a "complete software solution including Microsoft Windows Embedded CE OS, application viewers, full Internet browser, UI framework, board support package (BSP), software development kit (SDK), Web mail client, and more" on offer for any manufacturers adopting Tegra.
Product: Tegra APX 2600
NVIDIA'S TEGRA HAS gone paranoid Android at MWC. The firm was earlier seen showing off its Tegra system on chip (SoC), running Google's Android OS and boasting about the firm's new Tegra 600 series platform which purportedly enables a $99, always-connected HD mobile internet device (MID) that can go days between battery charges. MWC seemed the perfect venue for Nvidia to show off Tegra, which integrates a CPU, GPU, northbridge, southbridge and memory controller all on the same little chip, which can be easily bunged into smartphones and little, tiny lappies. Rayfield noted he believed the Tegra-based platform combined "the best of both worlds." Personally, we reckon that 'best' may be taking it all a little far, but what Tegra does sport is 720p and 1080p video playback, Full Wi-fi and 3G connectivity and hardware support for Web 2.0 applications. It's also easy(er) on battery life and supports a Windows CE OS, application viewers, full Internet browser, UI framework, board support package (BSP), software development kit (SDK), Web mail client and a smorgasbord of other features.
Product: Tegra APX 2600
Nvidia has introduced a new platform, based on the Nvidia Tegra 600 Series computer-on-a-chip that the company says will enable $99, always-on, always-connected HD mobile internet devices that will go days between battery charges. The Tegra MID will deliver 720p and 1080p video playback, "days" of use between charges, full Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity and "optimised" hardware support for Web 2.0 apps. In addition, Nvidia promises a complete software solution including Microsoft Windows Embedded CE OS, application viewers, full internet browser, UI framework, software development kit, Web mail client, "and more".
Product: Tegra APX 2600
Nvidia has suggested that its Tegra chipset should see the arrival of a £70 mobile internet device with HD video playback. The 'computer on a chip' Tegra concept from Nvidia shown at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, runs Windows CE and has a slide-out keyboard. But it is perhaps the price point that will conjure the most interest, with a $99 estimate for the device. The device appears to be firmly picking a spot between two stools - netbooks and smartphones - but if the price point is right then it could well tap into a new market in the same way as the Eee PC opened up sub-notebooks.
Product: Tegra APX 2600
NVIDIA claims its TEGRA platform (a low-cost, low-power-consumption chipset combining 3G and WiFi connectivity with HD video recording and playback) will enable $99 MID devices with high-end multimedia and Internet abilities.
Product: Tegra APX 2600
Nvidia has officially announced that it is bringing Android to its Tegra platform, allowing 'advanced user experiences that leverage web and internet content'. The decision to support Android makes the entire Tegra platform more attractive to manufacturers – who can choose between Microsoft's operating system or what is ostensibly Google's.
Product: Tegra APX 2600
Having spent much of this year talking up its netbook offering, NVIDIA today has unveiled a new platform designed for another Intel inspired form factor - the mobile internet device (MID). This new platform is based on the NVIDIA Tegra 600 series ‘computer-on-a-chip'. NVIDIA claims it will enable an ‘always on' MID to go for days between battery charges. The MID is intended to reside somewhere between smartphones and netbooks in terms of size and usage model. Just as netbooks can vary widely in size and functionality, the definition of a MID remains vague. However it aspires to be a truly mobile device (which should mean it can fit in a pocket) with some PC-like functionality.
Product: Tegra APX 2600
Nvidia said Tegra chips would bring advanced graphics capabilities to smartphones while drawing less power. The support for the Android platform is an attempt to drive up Tegra's adoption among smartphone makers. Nvidia is displaying an Android-based phone with a Tegra chip at the GSMA Mobile World Congress being held in Barcelona from Monday to Thursday. Tegra-based phones will combine advanced graphics, better battery life and always-on Internet access… Smartphone makers can now use the Android platform to build Web 2.0 and Internet-based applications for Tegra-based smartphones.
Product: Tegra APX 2600
Want an internet handheld for under $100? That's what Nvidia is promising, courtesy of its ARM-based system-on-a-chip family, Tegra. Nvidia also used Mobile World Congress today to tell all that Google's Android runs on its new Tegra APX 2600 SoC - a possible basis for the next iPhone, it's said - thanks to "close work" between the chip maker, the online advertising company and the Open Handset Alliance.
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Feature: CUDA
Nvidia’s director of product management for PhysX, Nadeem Mohammad, agrees,telling Custom PC that ‘all the simple, complex operations’ involved with path finding and collision detection ‘are all very repetitive, so path finding is one of the algorithms which does work very well on CUDA.’
Feature: CUDA
Nvidia and AMD are working with games and middleware developers to take the most common AI routines - 90 per cent of the time these perform simple visibility and path finding queries – away from the CPU and across to the graphics card to process instead.
Feature: CUDA
Once was a time a graphics card handled just that. Graphics. But these days? Nvidia cards already handle physics processing, and by next year both Nvidia and ATI cards might handling AI as well.
This doesn't mean higher prices for new gfx cards, this means that older gfx cards will still be of use. My 9800 GT will turn into a PhysX card after my next hardware upgrade.
Do you remember what the first 3D games looked like and how long it took the industry to actually make them look better than a bunch of glowing boxes? Well, we're seeing the same evolutionary steps happen right now with Physics, AI, and other new aspects of gaming.
Feature: CUDA
Award: Number 4 in Top 10 Trends for 2009
Graphics Processing Units have become just as powerful as CPUs and highly parallel tasks such as simulation and rendering can be offloaded to the GPU or even multiple GPUs. NVIDIA is leading the charge with its CUDA programming language. Adobe delivered the first mainstream application of GPGPU last year with video encoding in CS4. Expect to see some developments in the CAD/CAM/CAE sector this year.
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Product: GeForce 3D Vision
GeForce 3D Vision changes all [previous 3D problems] that, leveraging NVIDIA's access to their own drivers (and perhaps equally importantly to developers) to make supporting stereoscopic gaming both an easier and more reliable premise, while having control over the hardware side of the equation also means that they can keep control over its quality, to ensure that the days of flickering and headaches are removed from the mindset of anyone considering such a setup....so far I've heard a lot of positive things from people who have had chance to try using a GeForce 3D Vision system, so for hardcore gamers it could serve to be a fun and more immersive way to enjoy gaming, and that can only be a good thing.
Product: GeForce 3D Vision
3DVision does work. That’s as simply as we can put it. Not only does it work, but it actually works very well for the most recent and relevant games, proving perfectly compatible with all the common engines.
3DVision will become a technology which is more viable beyond just the corporate or early-adopter market - and we can't wait!
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Feature: PhysX
Thanks to NVIDIA's PhysX software, there are extra details like flappy plastic sheeting and cloth that catches the wind, or shreds under the weight of gunfire from pursuing helicopters. Textures have been improved too, glistening with surface detail, and the world has been filled out with incidentals like tumbling bricks, warped reflections in shiny pipes, and real-time fog and steam effects.
Feature: PhysX
If you've been waiting for the PC release hoping it would better the two console versions released last year, you're in luck, as it does. Numerous PhysX accelerated physics objects and effects add to an already stunning looking game, such as moving sheets of plastic and low-lying fog, making the world that little bit more believable.
Feature: PhysX
Personally I think the PC version is the strongest release especially if you have the hardware configuration capable of handling PhsyX at high resolution - this really does add a high level of immersiveness to the somewhat bland environments. If you have the money and Nvidia hardware, then this is definitely worth a look
Feature: PhysX
...it's improved on the PC, being easier to make jumps using a mouse and keyboard and with PhysX support, it makes fist-smashing through glass even more satisfying
Feature: PhysX
Award: Bit-Tech.net Recommended Award
Our opinion? The PhysX content is good. It enhances the gaming experience without infringing on it, giving a tangible benefit to being an Nvidia card owner. Running down empty corridors is all very well and good, but it’s always more fun if there’s stuff actively swooshing around you. Swoosh!
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