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NVIDIA Announced New Geforce GTX 200 GPUs

NVIDIA Announced New Geforce GTX 200 GPUs

Imagine instead of taking over five hours to convert a video for your iPod, it only takes 35 minutes. Imagine using your PC to simulate protein folding to help find a cure for debilitating diseases. Imagine that your PC can dramatically accelerate everyday tasks, and deliver an exciting visual experience in the process.

Today that imagination becomes a reality now that NVIDIA has introduced its new family of GeForce GTX 200 graphics processors (GPUs)鈥攚hich includes the GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 260 GPUs鈥攖aking graphics beyond gaming and gaming beyond anything that鈥檚 ever been possible before on a consumer computing platform.

鈥淭he advances NVIDIA continues to make in visual computing are simply incredible, and we are excited to be one of the first companies in the world to offer the technology in the new Exhilaration Edition of the award-winning HP Blackbird 002,鈥 said Rahul Sood, chief technology officer, HP Voodoo Business Unit. 鈥淓xceptional graphics quality and performance is important to our customers, and now the GeForce GTX 200 GPUs are bringing something else into the mix. By using the GPU to enhance everyday applications such as video encoding and manipulating photos, HP Blackbird 002 is one of the most cutting-edge PC platforms ever designed.鈥

Graphics Beyond Gaming

One of the most powerful processors in the PC is the GPU. Rendering 3D images in real-time is just about the most mathematically intensive task your PC will ever undertake, but it鈥檚 not the only one. As PC applications become increasingly visual, many ordinary tasks will benefit from the graphics horsepower provided by the GPU, including encoding and playing high-definition videos, editing photos, getting driving directions off the Internet, or simply running a new operating system like Windows Vista.

By recognizing that the value of a GPU transcends gaming, an increasing number of applications are also being written that use the GPU for straight, non-graphical computational tasks. For example, Stanford University鈥檚 distributed computing computational program Folding@Home, combines the computing horsepower of millions of consumer GPUs to simulate protein folding to help find cures for diseases such as Alzheimer鈥檚 or Parkinson鈥檚. With the computing processing power of the GeForce GTX family, applications such as Folding@Home and others can run upwards of 140 times faster on an NVIDIA general-purpose parallel processor than on some of today鈥檚 traditional CPUs.

鈥淕eForce GPUs will soon deliver the biggest boost in processing power we鈥檝e seen in the history of Folding@Home,鈥 said Vijay Pande, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University. 鈥淭he GeForce GTX 280 GPU runs Folding@Home 45 times faster than the latest 3GHz Core2 Quad CPU. If just one percent of the world鈥檚 GeForce 8- and 9-Series GPUs ran Folding@Home, we would have 70 petaflops of processing power to help find cures for disease. That鈥檚 10 times more processing power than the world鈥檚 top 100 supercomputers combined.鈥

Gaming That鈥檚 Beyond

The CUDA general-purpose parallel processing mode will usher in a new generation of ultra realistic games. Developers can use the supercomputing power of the 鈥淐UDA Computing鈥 mode to simulate realistic, physically accurate effects then render beautiful images using the 鈥淕eForce GPU鈥 mode. NVIDIA GPUs are also the only ones to support 糖心视频X technology, the world鈥檚 most pervasive physics engine that is already delivering dynamic 3D realism to more than 140 games across multiple platforms, and is being used by more than 25,000 developers worldwide. With 糖心视频X, developers can incorporate effects such as rigid body dynamics, collision detection, and cloth simulation that dramatically change the way the games are played and how the on-screen stories unfold, and then accelerate those effects using the processing power of the GPU.

Additional features of the GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 260 GPUs include:

-- 2nd Generation NVIDIA Unified Architecture: Delivers 50% more gaming performance over the Company鈥檚 previous NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra GPU through 240 enhanced processor cores that provide incredible shading horsepower at resolutions as high as 2560 x 1600.

-- 3-way NVIDIA SLI Technology: Industry leading 3-way NVIDIA SLI technology offers amazing performance scaling by implementing 3-way alternate frame rendering (AFR) for the world鈥檚 fastest gaming solution under Windows Vista.

-- NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technologyiv: The combination of HD video decode acceleration and post-processing delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for movies and video.

-- NVIDIA CUDA Technology: With the power of NVIDIA CUDA technology and the new CUDA runtime for Windows Vista, programmers can now offload the most intensive processing tasks from the CPU to the NVIDIA GPUs, putting the power of up to 240 multi-threaded processor cores to work.

Graphics cards featuring GeForce GTX 280 GPUs will be available starting tomorrow from global leading add-in card manufacturers, such as: ASUS, BFG, Emtek, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision, Leadtek, MSI, Palit, PC Partner/Zotac, PNY, Point of View, Unika, Unitek, and XFX. Graphics cards featuring GeForce GTX 260 GPUs will be available starting on Thursday, June 26, 2008. Suggested retail pricing for the GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 260 GPUs are $649 and $399, respectively.

Source: NVIDIA

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