Good news for developer as the Nvdia announces Nexus which brings CPU/GPU computing in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. The major hurdle for developers with Nvidia CUDA was the language and environment restrictions. Nexus supports CUDA C, OpenCL, DirectCompute, Direct3D, and OpenGL. Microsoft Visual Studio is the world’s most popular development application and Nexus removes all [...]
Nvidia PhysX is a leading technology of the graphics giant which accelerates physics and other computational tasks on the GPU. By default, all the new Nvidia graphics cards support PhysX. Recently, Nvidia has disabled the Physics acceleration on its GPUs when an ATI graphics card is used for rendering graphics.
Apple has been angry with Nvidia for some time now because of the prolonged GPU failures in Mac Computers and iMacs. Thus, Apple has finally decided to shift to ATI Radeon 4000 based graphics chips for their upcoming Mac Pro and iMac computers. The ATI series will replace Nvidia Geforce 9400 based graphics chips.
You need a proper software plus hardware combination to get the maximum out of your system. To fully utilize the fautres of Windows 7, you need a proper GPU. There are more than 140 NVIDIA’s GPUs that fully supports all the features of Windows 7. See the complete list here. To perform desired tasks like [...]
The Laptop gaming market is certainly hot these days with both the graphics giants, AMD/ATI and Nvidia moving in with their best. AMD/ATI recently announced the release their fifth generation Graphics chips (GPUs) made on 40nm technology for the mainstream Mobile Market.
ATI released Moblility Radeon 4870 X2 recently, taking the crown of extreme notebook gaming platform from Nvidia. The Card is expected to produce better results then the Nvidia’s current top of the line Geforce 9800M GTX SLI. Notebooks based on this new card are beginning to be available.
Nvidia has just released a new forceware drivers with the WHQL certification. ForceWare version 182.06 is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Vista and supports GeForce 6-series and up. According to the company, you should expect to see improved performance in games such as Left 4 Dead and Fallout 3 [...]
Nvidia has come up with its Ion platform which strikes its competitors hard. The new platform is supposed to make a revolution is the small form factor Computers. The package is in a 0.6L box containing the whole system which is quite able to run Windows Vista and Windows 7, HD Movies, and other applications [...]
We all are familiar with software drivers. They are software programs which comes with hardware or a pre-set PC. But what’s their importance? Let’s digg it! Let me explain you first that what drivers really are? As the name implies, drivers are the software programs that ‘drives’ the hardware. This might be a difficult concept [...]
