Press Release
New NVIDIA® GPUs Usher in Ultimate Vista Notebooks with Must-Have 3D and Video Capabilities for Everyday ComputingSANTA CLARA, CA—May 9, 2007— NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today announced a new family of NVIDIA GeForce 8 Series of graphics processors targeted at the newly evolved notebook PC market.
These new GPUs (graphics processing units) help power a whole new generation of notebook PCs that deliver the ultimate visual experience for Windows Vista, DirectX 10 games, HD movies, and popular applications like Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Live Maps—changing the way users see and interact with their computers through enhanced visual quality, responsiveness and ease-of-use.
The new GeForce 8M Series notebook GPUs—the world’s first to support DirectX 10 and fully accelerate decoding of H.264 full HD movies—are available now from Europe’s top PC makers, including Fujitsu-Siemens Computers, Medion, Packard Bell and NEC Computers SAS.
Initially available in the GeForce 8600M and GeForce 8400M versions, the new GPUs make ultra-realistic DirectX10 3D games and vivid HD video playback on notebook PCs a reality with new features including:
• New, extremely efficient, unified architecture that delivers up to 2x the performance of previous generation GPUs for Windows Vista, DirectX 10 games and mainstream applications
• Revolutionary PureVideo™ HD video processing engine for the ultimate playback of HD DVD, Blu-ray and HD movie downloads
• NVIDIA PowerMizer™ technology that intelligently balances the user’s need for longer battery life and performance
“The new GeForce 8M Series GPUs are ushering in the new generation of Vista notebook PCs,” said Rene Haas, General Manager of the notebook GPU business at NVIDIA. “The new notebooks with support for Windows Vista’s Premium, DirectX 10 and HD video playback, will help consumers enjoy the new era of visually rich content as it was meant to be experienced.”
Playing HD video on a notebook is a technical challenge solved by NVIDIA’s PureVideo HD technology. This technology leverages the revolutionary new video processing engine in the GeForce 8600M and GeForce 8400M GPUs for home-theater-quality playback of multiple HD movie formats, including HD DVD, Blu-ray, and HD video downloads. The new video-processing engine performs 100% of the H.264 HD video decoding, freeing the CPU for other tasks and significantly reducing power consumption, heat and noise.
Game developers are using NVIDIA GPUs and the new Microsoft DirectX 10 technology to create this next year’s most anticipated releases such as Crysis from Crytek. The new GPUs are the first to support DirectX 10 and promise to deliver astounding realism for an absolutely engaging visual experience with unprecedented levels of detail for gaming.
The new NVIDIA 8M Series GPUs are available in the GeForce 8600M and GeForce 8400M models. To learn more about the GeForce 8M Series GPUs and to find a list of the new generation notebooks using these GPUs, please visit www.nvidia.co.uk and listen to the podcast located at http://download.nvidia.com/podcasts/pr/050907_geforce_8m.mp3.
