Engadget http://www.engadget.com Engadget http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif Engadget http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[NVIDIA unleashes GeForce GTX 690 graphics card, loads it with dual Kepler GPUs, charges $1k]]>http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/29/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-690-dual-kepler-gpu-graphics-card-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/29/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-690-dual-kepler-gpu-graphics-card-announced/http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/29/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-690-dual-kepler-gpu-graphics-card-announced/#comments ImageWould you look at that? NVIDIA hinted it would be coming today, and it looks like the tease is living up to the hype. The company stormed into the weekend at its Shanghai Game Festival by unleashing its latest offering, the GeForce GTX 690 -- and oh yeah, it's packing two 28nm Kepler GPUs! Trumping the recently released GTX 680 as the "worlds fastest graphics card," it's loaded with a whopping 3,072 Cuda cores. The outer frame is made from trivalent chromium-plated aluminum, while you'll find thixomolded magnesium alloy around the fan for vibration reduction and added cooling. Aiding in cooling even further, the unit also sports a dual vapor chamber and center-mounted fan. It'll cost you a spendy $1,000 to pick up one of these puppies come May 3rd, and you'll likely be tempted to double up -- two can run together in SLI as an effective quad-core card. With that said, NVIDIA claims that a single 690 runs 4dB quieter than duo of GTX 680s in SLI and handles about twice the framerate as a duo of GTX 680s in SLI a single GTX 680 -- impressive, but we'll reserve judgement until we see it for ourselves. Check out the press release after the break if you'd like more information in the meantime (...and yes, it runs Crysis -- 2 Ultra to be exact -- at 57.8fps, according to NVIDIA).

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NVIDIA unleashes GeForce GTX 690 graphics card, loads it with dual Kepler GPUs, charges $1k originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>28 nanometer28Nanometercudacuda coreCudaCoredual gpuDualGpuexpensivegaminggeforcegpugraphicsgraphics cardGraphicsCardGTX 690Gtx690keplernvidianvidia geforce gtx 690NvidiaGeforceGtx690video cardVideoCardSun, 29 Apr 2012 00:57:00 EST<![CDATA[NVIDIA open sources CUDA compiler, shares its LLVM-based love with everyone]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/14/nvidia-open-sources-cuda-compiler-shares-the-llvm-love-with-eve/http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/14/nvidia-open-sources-cuda-compiler-shares-the-llvm-love-with-eve/http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/14/nvidia-open-sources-cuda-compiler-shares-the-llvm-love-with-eve/#commentsA few years back, Intel prognosticated that NVIDIA's CUDA technology was destined to be a "footnote" in computing history. Since that time, Jen-Hsun Huang's low level virtual machine (LLVM) based compiler has more than proven its worth in several supercomputers, and now NVIDIA has released the CUDA source code to further spread the parallel computing gospel. This move opens up the code to be used with more programming languages and processors (x86 or otherwise) than ever before, which the company hopes will spur development of "next-generation higher performance computing platforms." Academics and chosen developers can get their hands on the code by registering with NVIDIA at the source below, so head on down and get started -- petaflop parallel processing supercomputers don't build themselves, you know.

NVIDIA open sources CUDA compiler, shares its LLVM-based love with everyone originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>cudallvmnvidiaopen sourceOpenSourceparallel computingparallel processingparallel processorparallel processorsParallelComputingParallelProcessingParallelProcessorParallelProcessorsresearchWed, 14 Dec 2011 22:19:00 EST<![CDATA[NVIDIA's Tesla GPU powers Tsubame 2.0 to green supercomputer supremacy]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/23/nvidias-tesla-gpu-powers-tsubame-2-0-to-green-supercomputer-sup/http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/23/nvidias-tesla-gpu-powers-tsubame-2-0-to-green-supercomputer-sup/http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/23/nvidias-tesla-gpu-powers-tsubame-2-0-to-green-supercomputer-sup/#comments Tsubame 2.0 The Green500 might not be quite as well known as the Top500, but it's no less of an honor to be counted among the world's most energy efficient supercomputers. NVIDIA is tooting its own horn for making it on to the list for the second year in a row as part of the "greenest" petaflop machine. The Tsubame 2.0 at the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Global Scientific Information Center is powered by Intel's Xeon CPUs, but NVIDIA's Tesla general purpose GPUs do a vast majority of the number crunching, allowing it to deliver 1.19 petaflops of performance while consuming only 1.2 megawatts. That's roughly 958 megaflops per watt, a huge increase over the most efficient CPU-only super computer, the Cielo Cray, which gets only 278 megaflops per watt. The Tsubame 2.0 isn't the greenest machine on the planet though, that honor belongs to IBM's BlueGene which takes the top five spots on the Green500. Still, number ten ain't bad... right? Check out the PR after the break.

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NVIDIA's Tesla GPU powers Tsubame 2.0 to green supercomputer supremacy originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Update: As many of you pointed out in the comments, Tesla is technically still a GPU. Though, in this case, the cores are being used exclusively for general computing purposes to offload work from the CPU while the Quadro half of the equation handles graphical tasks.

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NVIDIA's Maximus combines Quadro and Tesla for serious warrior power originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>C2075cpuCUDAdesktopGPUham and cheeseHamAndCheesemaximusnvidianvidia maximusnvidia quadroNVIDIA Quadro 600nvidia teslaNVIDIA Tesla C2075NvidiaMaximusNvidiaQuadroNvidiaQuadro600NvidiaTeslaNvidiaTeslaC2075processorquadroteslaworkstationMon, 14 Nov 2011 19:57:00 EST<![CDATA[Barcelona readies hybrid ARM-based supercomputer, uses NVIDIA GPUs for heavy lifting]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/14/barcelona-readies-hybrid-arm-based-supercomputer-uses-nvidia-gp/http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/14/barcelona-readies-hybrid-arm-based-supercomputer-uses-nvidia-gp/http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/14/barcelona-readies-hybrid-arm-based-supercomputer-uses-nvidia-gp/#comments NVIDIA has announced that it'll be providing CUDA GPUs for Barcelona's Supercomputing Center, with the facility looking to substantially boost its energy efficiency with these later this week at the SC11 Conference in Seattle. While the words "low power" and "energy efficiency" are a bit of a buzz kill in the high-octane high-MFLOP world of supercomputing, the BSC thinks it'll use between 15 to 30 times less power than current systems. Titled the Mont Blanc Project, it's aiming to multiply those energy savings by four to ten times by 2014. While other supercomputers eat their way though megawatts of the electric stuff, hopefully a drop in power demands won't affect this machine's supercomputing scores.

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Barcelona readies hybrid ARM-based supercomputer, uses NVIDIA GPUs for heavy lifting originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>ARMBarcelona Supercomputing CenterBarcelonaSupercomputingCenterCUDAGPGPUGPUNVIDIAparallel computingParallelComputingresearchsupercomputersupercomputerssupercomputingMon, 14 Nov 2011 11:04:00 EST<![CDATA[NVIDIA's Kepler GPU still (kinda, sorta) on schedule for 2011 debut]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/06/nvidias-kepler-gpu-still-kinda-sorta-on-scheduled-for-2011-d/http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/06/nvidias-kepler-gpu-still-kinda-sorta-on-scheduled-for-2011-d/http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/06/nvidias-kepler-gpu-still-kinda-sorta-on-scheduled-for-2011-d/#comments NVIDIA roadmap Back in September of last year NVIDIA pledged that the successor to Fermi, Kepler, would arrive in 2011. Since then, things have been rather quiet on the next-gen GPU front. In fact, rumors have started to circulate that the 28nm-based chip would be pushed back to 2012. Turns out those rumblings aren't entirely inaccurate. While the latest polygon pushing silicon will start being churned out before it's time to buy a new calendar, final products won't start shipping until next year, as a company rep told TechSpot. Kepler's descendent, Maxwell, is still expected to land sometime in either 2013 or 2014, but there's plenty of time for that timetable to slide back a bit too.

NVIDIA's Kepler GPU still (kinda, sorta) on schedule for 2011 debut originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Update: An MSI rep has let us know that contrary to earlier reports, the GT780R is not currently available with the 570M graphics card. The company added that it will offer some unspecified laptop with the 570M sometime in the "near" future. It's unclear if that laptop will, in fact, be the GT780R.

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NVIDIA announces GeForce GTX 580M and 570M, availability in the Alienware M18x and MSI GT780R (updated: MSI says no) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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KFA2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 WHDI graphics card is first to go wireless originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 reviewed: 'what the GTX 480 should have been' originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Update: CRN has a $499 price for us and a recital of NVIDIA's internal estimate that the GTX 580 bests the GTX 480 by between 20 and 35 percent. It seems, however, that the embargo for this hot new slice of silicon is set for early tomorrow morning, so check back then for the expert review roundup.

Update 2: Lusting to see one on video? How about two side by side? Skip past the break for the eye candy [Thanks, Rolly Carlos!].

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 detailed: 512 CUDA cores, 1.5GB of GDDR5 on 'world's fastest DX 11 GPU' (update: video!) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NVIDIA brings Fermi to the entry-level professionals with Quadro 600 and 2000 GPUs originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It's been a few years since we checked in with Elcomsoft's Wireless Security Auditor WiFi cracking software. As you'd expect, things have become easier, much easier. Elcomsoft now has an all-in-one solution that will locate wireless networks, intercept data packets, and crack WAP/WPA2 PSK passwords from any modern laptop with a discrete ATI AMD or NVIDIA graphics card. Here's the quote IT nerds will surely we love:
Today, ElcomSoft is integrating a wireless sniffer into Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor. The integrated sniffer turns Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor into a one-button, all-in-one solution ready to be used by corporate security officers without specific experience in information security.
Call us crazy, but if you're a C-level security officer with no specific information security experience then maybe you shouldn't be sniffing people's data packets. Then again, we're sure ElcomSoft will happily sell their $1,199 pro software or $399 standard edition to any hacker willing to pay, white hat or not.

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ElcomSoft turns your laptop into a one-touch WiFi cracking system originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 25 Sep 2010 03:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NVIDIA teams with PGI for CUDA-x86, gifts its brand of parallelism to the world originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NVIDIA GTX 470M highlights rollout of 400M mobile GPU series originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M reviewed: fastest mobile GPU to date originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M: 'world's fastest' mobile GPU now official, landing in June originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 May 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NVIDIA GTX 465 detailed ahead of June 1 launch, GTX 460 also rumored originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 May 2010 10:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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So what's Dally's solution to the death of Moore's law? For everyone to buy into parallel computing, where -- surprise, surprise -- NVIDIA's GPUs thrive. Dally says that dual, quad- and hex-core solutions are inefficient -- he likens multi-core chips to "trying to build an airplane by putting wings on a train," and says that only ground-up parallel solutions designed for energy efficiency will bring back the golden age of doubling performance every two years. That sounds fantastic, but as far as power consumption is concerned, well, perhaps NVIDIA had best lead by example.

NVIDIA VP says 'Moore's law is dead' originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 May 2010 01:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NVIDIA GTX 480M will bring Fermi to laptops this June, crazy power requirements and all originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 May 2010 06:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NVIDIA's first DirectX 11 parts are betting big on tessellation becoming the way games are rendered in the future, with the entire architecture being geared toward taking duties off the CPU and freeing up its cycles to deliver performance improvements elsewhere. This is perhaps no better evidenced than by the fact that both GTX models scored fewer 3DMarks than the Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850 that they're competing against, but managed to deliver higher frame rates than their respective competitors in in-game benchmarks from NVIDIA. The final bit of major news here relates to SLI scaling, which is frankly remarkable. NVIDIA claims a consistent 90 percent performance improvement (over a single card) when running GTX 480s in tandem, which is as efficient as any multi-GPU setup we've yet seen. After the break you'll find a pair of tech demos and a roundup of the most cogent reviews.

Gallery: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 official pictures

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NVIDIA unleashes GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 'tessellation monsters' originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Digital Storm's Davinci workstation gets down with Core i7-980X, Quadro graphics originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 340 highlights introduction of 300-series cards, none are powerful enough to matter originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sure, you've been hearing NVIDIA toss around names like CUDA, Fermi and Tesla for what seems like ages now, but we're guessing this is the sort of thing that'll get most folks to really take notice: a promise to cut supercomputing costs by a factor of ten. That rather impressive feat comes courtesy of the company's new Tesla 20-series GPUs, which come in the form of both single GPU PCI-Express Gen-2 cards and full-fledged GPU computing systems, and promise a whole host of cost-saving benefits for everything from ray tracing to 3D cloud computing to data analytics. Of course we are still talking about "cheap" in supercomputing terms -- look for these to run between $2,499 and $18,995 when they roll out sometime in the second quarter of 2010.

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NVIDIA Tesla 20-series GPUs promise to dramatically cut supercomputing costs originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>cudaferminvidianvidia teslaNvidiaTeslaparallel computingparallel processorsParallelComputingParallelProcessorssupercomputersupercomputingteslatesla c2050tesla c2070tesla s2050tesla s2070TeslaC2050TeslaC2070TeslaS2050TeslaS2070Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:29:00 EST<![CDATA[EVGA GeForce GTX 275 co-opts a GTS 250 for PhysX duties]]>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/evga-geforce-gtx-275-co-opts-a-gts-250-for-physx-duties/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/evga-geforce-gtx-275-co-opts-a-gts-250-for-physx-duties/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/03/evga-geforce-gtx-275-co-opts-a-gts-250-for-physx-duties/#comments Ready for some more dual-GPU madness, only this time in the resplendent green of NVIDIA? EVGA has gone and concocted a special Halloween edition of the GTX 275, which has sprouted an entire GTS 250 appendage solely for PhysX gruntwork. Dubbed a new form of Hybrid SLI, EVGA's latest combines -- for the first time, from what we can tell -- two different GPUs and assigns them with specific and mutually exclusive tasks. Whether this concept takes off will depend to a large extent on the effectiveness of PhysX acceleration and whether it can show more efficient scaling than regular old SLI with two boards or more conventional dual-GPU setups like the GTX 295. Color us intrigued, either way.

P.S. - That's what the actual card will look like, we're not making it up.

Gallery: EVGA GeForce GTX 275 Co-op PhysX Edition

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EVGA GeForce GTX 275 co-opts a GTS 250 for PhysX duties originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Read - NVIDIA Fermi site
Read - Hot Hardware analysis
Read - PC Perspective analysis

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NVIDIA launches Fermi next-gen GPGPU architecture, CUDA and OpenCL get even faster originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It's a given that the GPGPU (or General-Purpose Graphics Processing Unit) has a long, long ways to go before it can make a dent in the mainstream market, but given that ATI was talking up Stream nearly three whole years ago, we'd say a battle royale between it and its biggest rival was definitely in order. As such, the benchmarking gurus over at PC Perspective saw fit to pit ATI's Stream and NVIDIA's CUDA technologies against one another in a knock-down-drag-out for the ages, essentially looking to see which system took the most strain away from the CPU during video encoding and which produced more visually appealing results. We won't bother getting into the nitty-gritty (that's what the read link is for), but we will say this: in testing, ATI's contraption managed to relieve the most stress from the CPU, though NVIDIA's alternative seemed to pump out the highest quality materials. In other words, you can't win for losin'.

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You know, this whole "most powerful laptop" game is pretty hilarious. Back in '05, CompAmerica's (who?) Orca 9098 held the title with a cutting-edge 3.8GHz Pentium 4, and over the years, we've watched outfit after outfit pull the award back and forth, much like those tugging games we used to play as tots. Regardless, it seems as if Maingear's down for the fun, today rolling out the planet's all new "world's most powerful gaming laptop" in the eX-L 18, which arrives with an undisclosed Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme processor, twin NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M GPUs, up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, up to three 2.5-inch SATA or SSD drives, an optional Blu-ray drive and a screen that's probably larger than your mother's desktop LCD. And by that, we mean 18.4-inches with a 1,920 x 1,080 resolution. If you're down with lugging around this beast, you can get one headed your way provided you've got at least $2,999 you're willing to see off.

Gallery: Maingear's eX-L 18 grabs for "world's most powerful gaming laptop" title

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Maingear's eX-L 18 grabs for "world's most powerful gaming laptop" title originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NVIDIA's been dabbling in the CPU space behind closed doors for years now, but with Intel finally making a serious push into the GPU realm, it's about time the firm got serious with bringing the goods. BSN has it that the company's next-generation GT300 will be fundamentally different than the GT200 -- in fact, it's being hailed as the "first truly new architecture since SIMD (Single-Instruction Multiple Data) units first appeared in graphical processors." Beyond this, the technobabble runs deep, but the long and short of it is this: NVIDIA could be right on the cusp of delivering a single chip that can handle tasks that were typically separated for the CPU and GPU, and we needn't tell you just how much your life could change should it become a reality. Now, if only NVIDIA would come clean and lift away some of this fog surrounding it (and the rumored GTX 380), that'd be just swell.

[Thanks, Musouka]

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Another month, another upscaling technology. Tapping into NVIDIA's versatile CUDA architecture, ArcSoft has just announced its SimHD upscaling tech, which scales SD and DVD content to "near high-definition quality." The app integrates with the company's heralded TotalMedia Theater, though you'll need an NVIDIA GPU in order to really take advantage. We're told that it's compatible with millions of NVIDIA GPUs from the GeForce 8 Series onwards, including GeForce and Quadro lines. The pain for better looking pixels? $19.95 and a 5MB download, which may or may not end up costing more than the code itself if you use Time Warner Cable.

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ArcSoft's SimHD plug-in takes SD footage to "near HD" originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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ASUS N81Vg: first laptop with NVIDIA's GeForce GT 120M originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NVIDIA has announced that it'll now offer laptop GPU drivers directly via its website -- long overdue, if you ask us. These drivers have traditionally been offered through the computer manufacturers since most mobile GPUs are customized to be compatible with the devices' specific hotkeys and suspend / resume functionality -- NVIDIA said it has found a way around with a new modular architecture. First on the menu are beta drivers for GeForce 8M and 9M series as well as Quadro NVS-series laptops that add CUDA and PhysX support, with Windows-certified drivers for all GeForce 7, 8 and 9 series and Quadro NVS series are due out early next year. Now, if only we could download hugs...

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NVIDIA now offering laptop drivers directly through website originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We spent some time on the phone with NVIDIA today in the wake of last night's official release of the OpenCL GPU-processing spec, and we learned some interesting things. NVIDIA thinks OpenCL is going to bring a lot more attention to general-purpose GPU computing, and it's planning on stoking the flames -- not only is it accelerating the CUDA release schedule, it's planning on working with Microsoft on DirectX 11 Compute. Hit the break for some more highlights!

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NVIDIA dishes about OpenCL originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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That's some serious boasting by NVIDIA, but this is some serious graphics horsepower. The Quadro FX 5800, already seen in NVIDIA's Quadro Plex D data cruncher, replaces the 5600 at the top of the NVIDIA heap with 240 CUDA-programmable parallel cores and the industry's first card with 4GB of graphics memory. MSRP? Just $3,499 for you big spender -- pennies for the companies who can harness the power for the purposes of oil and gas exploration, 4D modeling, and graphics design.

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NVIDIA's Quadro FX 5800 with 4GB graphics memory is 'the most powerful graphics card in history' originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It's been awhile (or a long while, in the case of the ARES CG6155) since we've heard about these machines, but ASUS has at long last decided to start shipping 'em to retailers. The aforesaid gaming desktop still doesn't have a publicly available price tag, but ASUS assures us that it's out there now for those who know where to look. Thankfully, it was a bit (and we stress "bit") more forthcoming with details on the G50 and G71 gaming notebooks, which are also available as we speak for $1,249.99 and take-your-best-guess, respectively.

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ASUS G50 / G71 laptops and ARES CG6155 gaming PC now available originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Check it Donnie, Nvidia just launched its Quadro CX accelerator card for Adobe's Creative Suite 4. The optimized GPU fits into your PC's PCIe slot to smooth image navigation and manipulation in Photoshop while accelerating effects in Adobe's After Effects and Premier Pro. Nvidia claims that the new GPU helps encode H.264 video at "lightning-fast speeds" when using Nvidia's Cuda-enabled CS4 plug-in while giving professionals accurate video previews with uncompressed 30-bit color or 10-/12-bit SDI (for professional video equipment) before final output. The Quadro CX features a 1.5GB (GDDR3) frame buffer and 76.8GBps memory bandwidth with dual-DisplayPort connectors (up to 2560 x 1600 pixels) and a single dual-link DVI with support for panels up to 3,840 x 2,400 @24Hz. Look, we know this sounds all stupid-hard advanced to those of you using Photoshop to hotten-up your Facebook pic, but the pros are going to love it. $1,999 and available today -- video demonstration just beyond the read link.

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Nvidia's Quadro CX GPU optimized for people who don't suck at Photoshop originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Elcomsoft has been using NVIDIA's CUDA GPU computing architecture to accelerate its Distributed Password Recovery tool for a while now, but it looks like the latest version of the cracking utility takes it to the next level -- it can break a WPA2 password using two GeForce GTX 280-based boards 100 times faster than with just a CPU. It's still a brute-force crack, but only a few packets need be sniffed, and the GPU accelerates the algorithm used to generate keys significantly -- even laptop-grade 8800M and 9800M GPUs speed things up 10 to 15 times. We wouldn't worry too much about wardrivers with trunk-mounted bladeservers going nuts, however -- the base version of the software costs $599, and things ramp up to $5,000 pretty quickly.

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Elcomsoft uses NVIDIA GPUs to crack WPA2 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sure, it's all well and good to play around with the Folding@Home client on toys like the PS3, but if you're really serious about out-nerding the rest of the pack, you need big-boy hardware, like this 51-card NVIDIA-based rig built by nitteo of the overclock.net forums. That's 51 8800-series GPUs on 13 MSI P6N Diamond mobos, enough for an estimated 265,200 folding points per day when they all go online -- and we're guessing that number will go up when that new CUDA-based folding client released yesterday is installed. Now let's just hope all those cards can stand the heat, hmm? More pics at the read link -- and remember, we're always down for more help on the Engadget Folding@Home team!

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51-card NVIDIA folding rig can crank out 265,200 points / day originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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NVIDIA's really pushing the GPU-as-CPU angle at SIGGRAPH this year -- we've already seen the PhysX and CUDA-powered GeForce Power Pack for consumers, and the company is also updating the Quadro Plex series of visual co-processors for workstation customers. The new Quadro Plex 2200 D2, designed for large datasets and models, crunches data through two Quadro FX 5800 GPUs (totalling 480 CUDA cores) and 8GB of RAM, while the Quadro Plex 2100 D2 is optimized for large multidisplay rigs with four Quadro FX 4700 GPUs and support for up to eight monitors. Sounds fun -- and we're guessing the people who can justify the $10,500 starting price for these rigs think so too.

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NVIDIA releases new Quadro Plex D CUDA desktop rigs originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It's not a direct response to AMD unveiling the HD Radeon 4850 X2 and 4870 X2 yesterday, but NVIDIA also came to play at SIGGRAPH, and it's got lots of new GPU-as-CPU toys for us this morning -- and what's more, they're free. Like we'd been hearing, GeForce 8, 9, and 200-series cards are all getting PhysX support as of today via a free GeForce Power Pack that contains a free full copy of Warmonger, three PhysX-enabled Unreal Tournament 3 maps, demos of Metal Knight Zero and the Nurien UT3-based social networking service, and a couple tech demos. The Power Pack also includes some new CUDA apps to play with, including a new Folding@Home client (ahem) and a trial version of the Badaboom video transcoder. That's a lot of new toys, so get downloading and let us know what you think!

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NVIDIA enables PhysX and CUDA support for GeForce 8 and higher GPUs with free downloads originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Intel exec says NVIDIA's CUDA will be a "footnote" in history originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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