World's Fastest Notebook GPU Brings DirectX 10 HD Gaming to Mobile Gamers
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- This holiday
season a new era of PC games, featuring advanced new graphics effects, will
immerse gamers in cinematic realism like never before. Games like Crysis,
Unreal Tournament 3, and Call of Duty 4 are sure bets to be at the top of
the holiday gift list for the significant gamer in your life. And to supply
the best visual experience when playing these new games, a new generation
of notebook PCs equipped with ultra-modern GPUs (graphics processing
units), such as the just-released GeForce(R) 8800M notebook GPUs from
NVIDIA, will soon be available for order from notebook makers.
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The new NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX and GeForce 8800M GTS score the
highest on industry-standard benchmarks for GPUs in their class and are the
perfect complement for the new generation of DirectX 10 games for the gamer
on the go.
"I am absolutely amazed by the sheer performance of the new GeForce
8800M GTX-powered notebooks," said Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games,
creators of the game Unreal Tournament 3 and the Unreal Engine 3 game
engine. "These next-gen machines run Unreal Tournament 3 fantastically even
at HD resolutions of 1920x1200. I'm ordering one!"
Delivering the best performance for both DirectX 10 and DirectX 9, the
GeForce 8800M GTX and GeForce 8800M GTS GPUs fill the top enthusiast GPU
product positions in the popular NVIDIA GeForce 8M Series product line,
continuing the company's five generations of performance leadership in
notebook GPUs. The new GPUs feature NVIDIA's new, extremely efficient,
unified architecture that delivers astounding levels of performance
compared to previous generation GPUs.
"With the new GeForce GPUs, NVIDIA is bringing gamers the ultimate
gaming experience available on a notebook," said Cervat Yerli, CEO of
Crytek. "For gamers wanting to experience the advanced visual realism of
Crysis the new GeForce 8800M powered machines are the ones to get."
In addition to serving as the core of a great, notebook gaming
platform, the NVIDIA GeForce 8M Series GPUs feature the NVIDIA PureVideo(R)
HD engine for superior quality playback of HD DVD, Blu-ray, and HD movie
downloads. The GeForce 8M Series also contain NVIDIA's PowerMizer(R)
technology that intelligently balances battery life and performance.
"Alienware's philosophy when designing the industry's most powerful 17
and 15-inch notebooks was the commitment to using only the best components
designed around the most current technologies," said Frank Azor, Executive
Vice-President for Alienware's Product Group and Marketing. "Alienware
proudly announces that our next generation notebooks, the Area-51 m17x and
Area-51 m15x, launching early next year, will feature the raw power and
vivid detail of NVIDIA's GeForce 8800M GTX."
Notebooks with the new GPUs will soon be available for order from
notebook makers worldwide including Alienware, Eurocom, Gateway, and Sager
in North America; AIRIS, Chiligreen, Cizmo, Cybersystem, Ergo, Nexoc,
Novatech, Plaisio, Rock, and XXODD in Europe; MouseComputer in Japan; and
Pioneer Computers in Australia.
To learn more about the GeForce 8M Series GPUs and to find a list of
the new generation notebooks using these GPUs, please visit http://www.nvidia.com.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) is the worldwide leader in graphics
processor technologies. The Company creates innovative, industry-changing
products for computing, consumer electronics, and mobile devices. NVIDIA is
headquartered in Santa Clara, CA and has offices throughout Asia, Europe,
and the Americas. For more information, visit http://www.nvidia.com.
Certain statements in this release including, but not limited to,
statements as to: the features, uses, benefits, performance and
capabilities of the GeForce 8M series of notebook GPUs, NVIDIA PureVideo
technology, PowerMizer technology, and notebooks incorporating new the
GeForce 8M series of GPUs; the availability of the GeForce 8M series of
GPUs and laptops incorporating the GeForce 8800M Series GPUs; and the new
era of PC games are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks
and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than
expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially include: delays in ramping new products into production;
difficulties in the development of new and enhanced products; loss of
performance of when products are used together; our reliance on
third-parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products;
whether customers continue to adopt our technologies and products; delay in
the release of new PC games; manufacturing or software defects; the impact
of technological development and competition; our reliance on third party
manufacturers; changes in industry standards and interfaces as well as
other factors detailed from time to time in the reports NVIDIA files with
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