Tag: discrete graphics
Why Consumers Should Want Ultrabooks With Discrete Graphics
Recently, NVIDIA announced their new mobile GPU for notebooks, the GeForce GT 640M with Kepler architecture. This graphics card will find its way into several laptops this year, but most notably it’s designed to go into ultrabooks. As you saw in my hands-on with the Acer Timeline Ultra M3, it is possible to include discrete [...]
First Hands-On: Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 Ultrabook With Discrete Graphics (Video)
Ever since ultrabooks first debuted a few months ago I’ve been both excited and disappointed by them. I love me some super skinny and light enough to carry everywhere hardware, but I also need me some serious power. Last week at CeBIT Acer set out to answer my prayers when they introduced the Aspire Timeline [...]
Switchable Graphics Coming To Ultrabooks Soon?
One of the drawbacks of the ultrabook category is the lack of robust power under the hood. Since these notebooks are meant to be super slim they feature ultra low voltage processors to keep them from getting too hot. That also results in lower performance than non-ULV chips. Intel’s ULV chips have come a long [...]
How to Tell Which GPU Your MacBook Pro is Using and Manually Choose Your GPU with gfxcardstatus
If you ever want to know which graphics card your Apple MacBook Pro is using, then gfxcardstatus is the perfect utility. The MacBook Pro has what is called switchable or dynamic switching graphics. When your system needs a lot of graphics processing power for things like video encoding, picture editing or especially gaming, the computer switches from lowered [...]
Optimus Makes it Simple
Rene Haas is the General Manager of Notebooks at NVIDIA In the past, consumers were forced to prioritize notebook performance or battery life, as one feature typically suffers significantly in order to accommodate the other. You could have long battery life from an underpowered notebook, or all the GPU power you desired from a notebook [...]
Nvidia Optimus Aims to Transform Mobile Graphics
Details are very sparse right now, but Nvidia has announced on the Nvidia Ntersect blog that they will be launching Nvidia Optimus, a new technology that will “optimize the mobile experience” in the first quarter of 2010. The Nvidia Optimus technology will reportedly be seamless to users and offer the power of discrete graphics without [...]
