Mac PC Wiz » Graphics Cards http://macpcwiz.com/blog Mac and PC computer support wizards answer questions and offer tips, tutorials, videos for Apple and Windows desktops, servers, laptops, netbooks and minis. Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:53:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 nVidia ION 2 is Here: Next-Gen Graphics for your Netbook/Nettop http://macpcwiz.com/blog/pc-hardware/nvidia-ion-2-is-here-next-gen-graphics-for-your-netbooknettop-2010-03-12.php http://macpcwiz.com/blog/pc-hardware/nvidia-ion-2-is-here-next-gen-graphics-for-your-netbooknettop-2010-03-12.php#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:11:50 +0000 Sean John http://macpcwiz.com/blog/?p=701 We talked up nVidia’s ION graphics solution for netbooks a while back — mainly because it gave a more robust graphics foundation to an already thin netbook platform. Where the Intel GMA integrated video fails, ION graphics gave netbooks a fighting chance for displaying better video resolutions, better gaming capabilities, high definition video, and (shock!)

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]]> http://macpcwiz.com/blog/pc-hardware/nvidia-ion-2-is-here-next-gen-graphics-for-your-netbooknettop-2010-03-12.php/feed 0 nVidia ION: Better graphics for netbooks? http://macpcwiz.com/blog/windows-pc/nvidia-ion-better-graphics-for-netbooks-2009-10-09.php http://macpcwiz.com/blog/windows-pc/nvidia-ion-better-graphics-for-netbooks-2009-10-09.php#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:10:40 +0000 Sean John http://macpcwiz.com/blog/?p=141 If there is one saving grace for the green guys of nVidia this season -- their behinds have been kicked soundly by the red guys of AMD/ATI seemingly on all fronts -- it is the relative success of nVidia ION. Technically ION is used to refer to a motherboard configuration by nVidia with an Intel Atom processor -- specifically for netbooks. But what's great about it is the graphics solution part -- ION is DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3 capable, with a GPU based on the GeForce 9400M structure but apparently better performing than its mobile GPU forefather. We have all the details inside, only here at MacPCWiz.]]> http://macpcwiz.com/blog/windows-pc/nvidia-ion-better-graphics-for-netbooks-2009-10-09.php/feed 1 NVIDIA’s new ‘FERMI’ chip positioned for Macs, Windows 7 http://macpcwiz.com/blog/apple-apps/nvidias-new-fermi-chip-positioned-for-macs-windows-7-2009-10-05.php http://macpcwiz.com/blog/apple-apps/nvidias-new-fermi-chip-positioned-for-macs-windows-7-2009-10-05.php#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:33:44 +0000 Sean John http://macpcwiz.com/blog/?p=77 As nVidia’s FERMI is designed with super-computing in mind, nVidia is quick to point out that it is also targeting Apple’s Snow Leopard and Windows 7.

We recently wrote about nVidia‘s new ‘FERMI‘ technology for their next gen GPUs. It’s basically a GPU chip that can — in some cases — do CPU-type work and processes. 

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]]> http://macpcwiz.com/blog/apple-apps/nvidias-new-fermi-chip-positioned-for-macs-windows-7-2009-10-05.php/feed 0 AMD/ATI joins the Physics bandwagon http://macpcwiz.com/blog/pc-hardware/amdati-joins-the-physics-bandwagon-2009-10-02.php http://macpcwiz.com/blog/pc-hardware/amdati-joins-the-physics-bandwagon-2009-10-02.php#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:45:37 +0000 Sean John http://macpcwiz.com/blog/?p=66 And still more joy for the AMD/ATI crowd as AMD announced an open-source based physics initiative with simulation technology and graphics mover Pixelux Entertainment. Geeksmack.net reports:

NVIDIA has been buffing their PhysX capable GPU’s for quite a while now. And to AMD/ATI users despair, NVIDIA has has disabled PhysX for their software when the hardware is

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]]> http://macpcwiz.com/blog/pc-hardware/amdati-joins-the-physics-bandwagon-2009-10-02.php/feed 0 nVidia hypes up their new FERMI architecture GPUs http://macpcwiz.com/blog/windows-pc/nvidia-hypes-up-their-new-fermi-architecture-gpus-2009-10-01.php http://macpcwiz.com/blog/windows-pc/nvidia-hypes-up-their-new-fermi-architecture-gpus-2009-10-01.php#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:04:00 +0000 Sean John http://macpcwiz.com/blog/?p=57 In as far as the tug of war between nVidia and AMD for the GPU “king of the hill” title, it has been a close contest these past years. Currently, with AMD/ATI’s HD400o series now done and nVidia’s GT200 project all over as well, both are priming for their new releases.

nVidia, in a bid to

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