Tag: CUDA
NVIDIA Announces GeForce 400M Series Notebook GPUS
In preparation for the notebooks coming out this holiday season today NVIDIA announced the company’s new mobile graphics processor — the GeForce 400M Series. As part of the new GeForce 400M series NVIDIA has announced 7 new GPUS all of which support Optimus and CUDA for intelligent switching and GPU computing. The new GeForce 400M [...]
GeForce GTX 480M: Fastest Notebook GPU Announced
The fastest notebook GPU to date was announced this morning by NVIDIA. According to NVIDIA, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M GPU for notebooks offers many milestones including, “up to 5x more performance than any other GPU.” The performance boosts come thanks to a dedicated Tessellation engine that takes advantage of new features in Direct X [...]
Do You Need a GPU? It’s For More Than Gaming!
When looking for a new computer a lot of people ask their technologically inclined friend what options they need and which ones to pass on. One question that comes up more often these days from notebook shoppers is, “Do I need a GPU?”
It used to be that any question about graphics came back to whether or not the purchaser was a gamer but anymore adding a GPU or Graphical Processing Unit to your notebook is about more than gaming.
The GPU is the Right Processor for Video Applications
I explained earlier that one of the key reasons NVIDIA went to a downloadable driver model for notebooks was to enable new features for customers with capable graphics processors (GPUs). The backbone to this is NVIDIA CUDA technology and the emergence of consumer applications that benefit from parallel computing, which is where GPUs really excel.
