Few hours after NVIDIA launched the info about their new technology named Optimus, we got information about their intention to show a Fermi-based mobile graphics card on CeBIT, along with desktop cards. What is more interesting is the fact their most powerful new model will come before Q3 and it will consume as much as 100 watts, which puts it in direct competition with CrossFire enabled couples of Mobility Radeon HD5870 (which we are about to see very soon as well). Of course – people started to worry hearing about such high consumption, but rest assured – there will be less demanding cards for those that want something less powerful than the best. …read on

Today is a great day for all those waiting GF100 show offs as some of the first benchmarks leaked in vimeo and were later removed from there, but not before people managed to upload them in youtube and the like. There is only one real benchmark – Far Cry 2, made at the highest possible settings with AA and AI on, and the GF100 averaged over 80 FPS at 1920×1200 resolution. Compared to what we could take for average HD5870 results in the same benchmark (deducted from reading many HD5870 reviews from around the globe), the Radeon does like 60 to 64 FPs with same setting, which makes just over 30% better result for the GF100. …read on

There s certain degree of objectivity editors have to keep to retain their stature of trusted source when they start to get more and more readers. There are only a handful of exceptions in the world of IT hardware and right now one of them is much too active to miss him in what we decided to be a simple true/false review of current NVIDIA position. Charlie from semiaccurate started to sound more than angry lately and while he still keeps the politeness in his forum posts, most of his articles started to look like a regular forum troll postings. In fact – an ATI fanboy postings, and one of those that don’t have much technical knowledge and substitute it with pure hate. There is also certain degree of envy in our words – not everyone can sound as deluded as Charlie Demerjian while keeping his readers (he even gets more and more) but we certainly prefer to stay objective instead of taking the one way road. Because you know that once you take that road there is only a couple of times you get to fail before you get lost – even Neo can only dodge a few bullets before he gets hit, right? We won’t run Charlie’s article analysis here, but all in all we think he has someone over TSMC, as most of his accurate postings seems to be either about chip manufacturing, or anti-NVIDIA PR analyzes. The rest… well, the rest of the ATI/NVIDIA stuff  is just too much crap to be analyzed. Most of it is included in one simple form with 10 points below: …read on

Today’s news said that NVIDIA is going to hold on ION 2 release a bit and probably make it more powerful that expected. If you read the articles about ION 2 so far, you would know that it was expected to have 32 shader cores (uhm.. CUDA cores), which made double the original ION’s 16 cores, and also double the power in 3D, yet not enough to be useful for 3D gaming. It was supposed to be like GeForce GT 130M die shrink made on 40 nm process. BSN even published some specifications of ION 2: …read on

One of the leading antivirus software developers – Kaspersky Lab, just announced they started to integrate NVIDIA Tesla S1070 1U GPU system in their threat prevention infrastructure. The main goal is speeding up the work on identifying highly advanced virus threats by using file similarity detection techniques. The similarity services enable the identification of new files and define which file, or file groups, most closely resemble the unknown program received by the company’s antivirus lab. …read on