Press Release
Bringing DirectX® 10 Graphics to the MainstreamTaipei, Taiwan, April 17, 2007 - GIGABYTE UNITED INC., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announces the launch of their new graphics accelerator, the GIGABYTE GV-NX85T256H, bundled with the official game of the 2006 WCG, Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War - Dark Crusade.
Featuring the latest GeForce 8500 GT with DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0 support, the GIGABYTE GV-NX85T256H delivers highly realistic gaming effects and enables full support for Microsoft Windows Vista Premium. Differing from past GPU generations, the NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT features a dedicated “on-chip” video processor for superb picture quality and ultra smooth video playback. The GV-NX85T256H also features NVIDIA’s latest advanced technologies including NVIDIA’s GigaThread Technology, which, through the use of a massively multi-threaded architecture, is able to create thousands of independent, simultaneous threads, providing extreme processing efficiency for advanced, next generation shader programs. Additionally, the GIGABYTE GV-NX85T256H supports Quantum Effects Technology, enabling a new level of physics effects to be simulated and rendered on the GPU as well as support for NVIDIA’s Lumenex engine, which introduces 16x Anti-aliasing and 128-bit floating point High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) rendering for the most realistic lighting effects.
The GIGABYTE GV-NX85T256H also supports HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) and features support for the latest video output interfaces, including Dual Dual-Link DVI, ensuring the highest quality, Hi-Def experience for the latest Blu-ray and HD DVD formats. Continuing GIGABYTE’s leadership as the first VGA maker to implement an All-Solid capacitor design on a wide range of graphics accelerators, the GV-NX85T256H provides the enhanced stability, reliability and longevity necessary for today’s PC gaming and entertainment systems.
For more details of the GIGABYTE GV-NX85T256H, please visit the GIGABYTE VGA website here.
