Jumping ahead of the official opening of Computex 2010, NVIDIA's impressed us with their own experience tent, in which they took everything they've got and showcased the way their goods are meant to be played with. The audience - members of the technology press were treated to a larger-than-life 3D cinema experience. NVIDIA head honcho co-founder, President, and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang talked about the focus of NVIDIA on this year's Computex: Tablet computers, Direct X 11, and the 3D experience for your PC. He also believed that the enhanced 3D experience is the future and NVIDIA is there to bring that experience to its users. We didn't see tablet PCs in the NVIDIA Experience Center. But that's not all there is to this launch. More details after the break!
NVIDIA head honcho co-founder, President, and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang gave his keynote address to the global tech press.
Computex 2010 also marks the official release of the GeForce GTX 465, the "entry-level" card offered by NVIDIA that yet delivers the full Direct X 11 experience. In fact, the NDA of this card was shifted from June 1 to May 31st. This card has a target suggested retail price of US $279 and is now available with NVIDIA's add-in partners, system builders and OEM makers, so expect this to hit the shelves and your favorite pre-built PCs soon if not now. Instead of 16, this GPU has 11 tessellation units. It has 352 CUDA cores, shader and core clocks running at 1,215MHz and 607MHz respectively, and has a 1GB DDR5 memory with a 256-bit bandwidth and a clock speed of 3,206MHz. It's main competitor is ATI's Radeon HD5850 GPU.
NVIDIA on Computex 2010 is summarized here.
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Another news that marked affirmation of Microsoft's rather young Silverlight technology is its new streaming 3D video capabilities. This was the larger than life 3D experience NVIDIA demonstrated recently, which they streamed the music video "We Are The World" in 3D. Microsoft's IIS Smooth Streaming technology was used for this demo. Basically, to experience 3D Vision-based content, consumers will only need an NVIDIA 3D Vision desktop or notebook with the latest 3D Vision drivers and Silverlight plug-in.
The first notebook with the 3D glasses transmitter built in.
Do expect NVIDIA's 3D PC slogan to hit your computer shops soon, since this is the new "in" thing they are promoting. 3D PC is dubbed as a new PC category debuted by NVIDIA at Computex with the help of its partners like Alienware, ASUS, Dell, Microsoft, Toshiba, and others. So what makes a 3D PC? Here are the minimum requirements:
- Includes a pair of 3D active-shutter glasses (like the 3D Vision Kit from NVIDIA), the only solution to provide full resolution 3D to each eye.
- A 120Hz 3D-capable display in the form of a desktop LCD monitor, a 3D projector, a 3D TV, or a notebook PC with an integrated 3D-capable LCD.
- A discrete graphics processor (like a GeForce GPU from NVIDIA) that is capable of delivering high definition imagery to the 3D display.
And the magic starts here.
Check out the various NVIDIA Experience videos we've taken at the tent:
NVIDIA 3DTV Play
Showing how the 3DTV Play works with any 3D TV from popular brands (correction over the voice-over - the glasses aren't NVIDIA's since this is an NVIDIA 3DTV Play solution).
NVIDIA ION
In this corner, we can see NVIDIA's ION graphics platform put into work in mini thin-client computers from various partners.
NVIDIA demonstrates the various netbooks and all in one computers powered by their ION graphics platform.
NVIDIA Optimus
There are a healthy number of notebooks on NVIDIA's Optimus technology. Here are some of them. Even the MacBook made its way into the NVIDIA Experience Center. Combine this with Intel's upcoming ultra low power Core i5's and we're set for notebooks running for 8 hours or more straight!
NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround
A live demonstration of how NVIDIA's 3D Vision surround plays like on a game like Need For Speed Shift. Details and resolution are already maxed out on all monitors. The computer shown
is running on GTX480s on SLI.
This one shows what the cockpit looks like on a triple display set up.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX480
The audience in a mini auditorium at the NVIDIA Experience Center. Little did they know about the streaming 3D demonstration that was about to thrill them
NVIDIA boss Jen Hsun chats up Murray Vince, General Manager of OEM Engineering and Strategy at Microsoft, about their Silverlight technology and NVIDIA's 3D streaming tech.
Jen Hsun with CyberLink's CEO, Alice H Chang on the matter of 3D Blu-ray playback.