The folks at Nyko have made a surprise one-two hit today with a variety of accessories that are aimed in the public eye directly at such next-generation devices as NVIDIA SHIELD. What we’re seeing right here is the functionality described in our first presentation of their new SHIELD dock, but without the dock. Here we’ve
Razer teased us when it unveiled the 14-inch Blade last week: a rare blend of portability with gaming performance, and we couldn’t even put money down? Well, we can at least do that now. The smaller of the two Blades is now up for pre-order, with prices ranging from $1,800 to $2,300 depending on the SSD capacity. Whatever the storage level, players are getting the same 14-inch 1,600 x 900 display, quad-core 2.2GHz Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM and GeForce GTX 765M graphics. Any fresh orders should ship within two to three weeks, which fits just inside of Razer’s promised launch schedule — and just ahead of our summer vacations.
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Origin PC makes a point of embracing game-friendly technology as soon as it arrives, and you’d better believe it’s welcoming Haswell-based processors with open arms: virtually all of its computer line is making the jump to the faster Intel hardware. The raw CPU power is the main highlight for the Chronos, Genesis and Millennium desktops, while those buying the larger EON15-S and EON17-S laptops get a few additional treats. Origin PC is adopting NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 765M, 770M and 780M graphics for the portables’ mainstream editions. It’s also letting the truly storage-addicted run two simultaneous RAID configurations if their laptop has four drives. The Haswell upgrades bump EON15S-S and EON17-S prices by about two Benjamins to $1,722 and $1,784 respectively, but players who just have to stay current can pay the premium today.
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Source: Origin PC
This week the folks at NVIDIA have unveiled several high-powered graphics cards to advance the world of desktop gaming, the tiniest of these being the GeForce GTX 700M notebook GPU. A family of four cards is being shown here, each of them with a slightly different build for different kinds of gaming setups. The builds of the devices coming with NVIDIA’s technology inside as part of this next wave of gaming notebooks will be small, too – dashing the past in which “big and heavy” were required in order to have enough power to speak of in a “gaming laptop”.
Each of the cards introduced here in NVIDIA’s new notebook line are, as they say, “Kepler top to bottom.” This means technologies like Boost 2.0, SLI, and top-of-the-line power. NVIDIA is making clear their intent to be part of the world’s most portable gaming notebooks, starting with the Razer Blade, a notebook revealed earlier today packing a GeForce GTX 765M.
The GeForce GTX 765M is a step up from the least powerful of the four cards in this family. Also included is the 760M, 770M, and 780M. The difference between these cards begins with the number of CUDA cores that sit under the hood. While both the 765M and 760M both work with 768 CUDA cores, the 770M starts in with 960 cores, and the 780M sweeps the rest with 1536 cores.
Above you’ll see a break-down of how each of these cards is different from the next: base clock speed, memory and all. You’ll be working with 1080p Ultra settings if you’ve got a 780M working for you, while a 760M will deliver 1080p High – the differences will be slight, but they’ll definitely be there.
These cards will be employing NVIDIA Optimus technology, allowing high performance graphics processing while battery life remains sustained. Optimus was created by NVIDIA at seeing IGPs deliver good battery life while failing to show GPU performance and graphics up to modern standards. With Optimus, NVIDIA is delivering a fully-automated battery optimization system that dynamically switches between the notebook’s IGP and dedicated NVIDIA GPU.
Pricing and release details for the 700M series for notebooks will be appearing soon. Stay tuned as additional notebooks begin to appear with NVIDIA’s next-generation graphics solutions under the hood – you might even be able to fit a gaming notebook in your backpack before summer is over!
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 700M aims to make gaming notebooks powerful and portable is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Just ahead of Computex, E3 and Intel’s launch of its 4th generation of processors, NVIDIA has announced its GTX 700M family of graphics processors (GPUs) for laptops. This is a performance-oriented refresh that hits on nearly all important elements: core […]
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We’ve already seen a couple of new desktop GTX cards from NVIDIA this month, and if the mysterious spec sheet for MSI’s GT70 Dragon Edition 2 laptop wasn’t enough of a hint, the company’s got some notebook variants to let loose, too. The GeForce GTX 700M series, officially announced today, is a quartet of chips built on the Kepler architecture. At the top of the stack is the GTX 780M, which NVIDIA claims is the “world’s fastest notebook GPU,” taking the title from AMD’s Radeon HD 8970M. For fans of the hard numbers, the 780M has 1,536 CUDA cores, an 823MHz base clock speed and memory configs of up to 4GB of 256-bit GDDR5 — in other words, not a world apart from a desktop card. Whereas the 780M’s clear focus is performance, trade-offs for portability and affordability are made as you go down through the 770M, 765M and 760M. Nevertheless, the 760M is said to be 30 percent faster than its predecessor, and the 770M 55 percent faster.
All of the chips feature NVIDIA’s GPU Boost 2.0 and Optimus technologies, and work with the GeForce Experience game auto-settings utility. The 700M series should start showing up in a host of laptops soon, and a bunch of OEMs have already pledged their allegiance. Check out a video with NVIDIA’s Mark Avermann after the break, where he shows off a range of laptops packing 700M GPUs, and helps us answer the most important question of all: can it run Crysis? (Or, in this case, Crysis 3.)
Gallery: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 700M slide deck
Filed under: Gaming, Laptops, Peripherals, NVIDIA
Now that we have the low-down on NVIDIA’s two mainstream heavyweights, the GTX 770 and the GTX 780, we figure it’s time to move beyond specs and official slide decks and bring together some reviews from the specialist sites. Both cards contain the same Kepler architecture as NVIDIA’s 2012 line-up, with no huge leaps in evidence, but they either add more of this silicon (in the case of the GTX 780) or drive it harder (in the case of the GTX 770) in order create new options for enthusiasts and for those upgrading from a card that is two or more generations old. At the same time, these products represent a major shift in NVIDIA’s pricing strategy. At $649, the GTX 780 is priced much higher than its direct ancestor, and it aims to approach Titan-level performance without hitting the same thousand-dollar high. Meanwhile, the GTX 770 costs just $399 and yet is said to replace last year’s flagship cards like the GTX 680 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, which are still being sold for $450 and upwards at some retailers. Read on and we’ll summarize how these claims have stacked up against reality.
Today NVIDIA let it be known that they’ve not just added the GeForce GTX 780 to their ranks, they’ve replaced the GTX 670 with the GTX 770 as well. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770′s design is based on the GK104 GPU, this being the same unit used in the 680, the card replaced by the 780 earlier this month. This unit works with a base clock speed of 1,046 MHz and can be boosted up to 1,085 MHz, bringing with it a fastest-ever GDDR5 memory speed at 7.0 Gbps.
Inside the GTX 770, users will find 8 SMX units bringing on a massive 1536 CUDA Cores, ready to keep the finest games on the market up to speed. While the typical Boost Clock speed will be 1085MHz, NVIDIA notes that many partners will be offering their 770 boards at higher clock speeds.
The GTX 770 works with the same vapor cooling chamber cooler that works with the GTX 780 and the GTX TITAN introduced earlier this year. Though on the GTX 770 reference boards this technology will be in play, retail GeForce GTX 770 cards work with their own unique board design, cooling, and OC clock speeds – the 4dB sound drop seen in the in-house test results here are from reference board designs only: the final product could be ever-so-slightly different.
This is the second card to be released with the NVIDIA GeForce Experience packaged and pushed to manufacturers – that’s the company’s game optimization suite, now in version 1.5 and available to the public. This user experience has replaced “NVIDIA Update” as the group’s graphic driver standard.
NVIDIA has made clear once again that the GeForce Experience is their jumping off point, a place where gamers can optimize the newest in high-powered games for the GeForce GTX graphics cards they’ve so gratefully purchased and installed. As it was made clear earlier this year at CES 2013, the cross-section of people who own high-powered graphics cards and those that take the time to set their games up to make the most of them is pitifully small: the GeForce Experience aims to put an end to that.
The GeForce GTX 770′s hardware certainly makes for a convincing case for necessary optimization. What good is a single precision of 3.2 Teraflops and either 2GB or 4GB GDDR5 memory capacities at 7.0 Gbps when you’re not making full use of it? There’s a lovely memory subsystem you might want to make use of as well, that consisting of four 64-bit memory controllers (256-bit).
This unit’s TDP (Thermal Design Power or Thermal Design Point) is 230W. TDP represents the maximum amount of power the cooling system will require to dissipate – and it’s important to note that this is the maximum “average” power the chip will draw, not the most power it’s capable of drawing in strange circumstances (there, now you learned something today.)
Meanwhile the recommended power supply for the GTX 770 has been suggested by NVIDIA to be 600 Watts. You’ll need to hook up one 6-pin power connector and one 8-pin power connector, each with PCI Express 3.0 design in play.
Output includes 2x Dual-Link DVI connectors, one full-sized HDMI connector, and one DisplayPort 1.2 connector. Kepler features of note include support for up to four displays, GPU Boost 2.0, and TXAA. NVIDIA’s standard GeForce GTX 770 2GB card is coming in at a suggested etail price point of $399.00 USD, with individual manufacturer prices incoming sooner than later.
GeForce GTX 770 joins 780 for two-tier gaming graphics sweep is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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It probably won’t come as a huge surprise, given the GTX 780‘s appearance last week, but today’s launch of the GTX 770 nevertheless brings us a very interesting product. The card is claimed to be about five percent faster than last year’s much more expensive flagship, the GTX 680, thanks to faster memory (7Gb/s instead of 6Gb/s), a slightly higher base clock speed (1,046 vs. 1,006MHz) and an equivalent number of CUDA cores (1,536). Seeing as how the the GTX 680 still holds its own with current games, this performance parity strikes us as something of a deal — assuming independent benchmarks back it up. We’re awaiting a confirmed US price, but we’ll eat our SATA cables if it’s anything other than $399 for a 2GB model (the press release just says “under $400”). UK and European prices match those of the GTX 670 (£329 inc. VAT, 329 euros exc. VAT), and availability begins today. Check out NVIDIA’s slide deck for more details, including power consumption and noise, SLI scaling (which looks healthy) and some in-house frame rate comparisons against other products.
Update: $399 is confirmed. The cables are safe.
Gallery: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 slide deck
Today the team behind NVIDIA’s SHIELD device have spoken on the activities and preparations made for showing the device on “P-Relase” day. P-Release signifies the device is ready for production, and what the team has shared today is what went on behind the scenes right up until NVIDIA’s most recent quarterly internal company meeting where CEO Jen-Hsun Huang showed off the very first SHIELD production unit. This device was first introduced back at CES 2013 earlier this year, and it’ll be shipped to the first wave of pre-order users in June.
The first run of SHIELD devices spoken about in this telling of the process was a small set of 220 devices – though its not clear whether this was the first full run of devices or not, the intense construction process behind the device is.
Two weeks before pre-orders for this device were set to go up and a “quick turn” manufacturing team is lead by a man named Brant. Brant spoke briefly to the team about how they’ll go about hands-on testing of this first set of 220 devices, then flew to the contract manufacturer taking the bulk of the assembling for SHIELD.
This quick-turn team has a set of deliverables that includes, amongst other things, a 100 page packet of assembly instructions. Details as small as how long each unit is charged before being shipped are covered in full. The fact that this machine works with elements like directional pads, physical buttons, and a clamshell display mean it’s also significantly more complex to put together than the average smartphone or tablet.
At around 24 hours before SHIELD would be announced fully “P-Release” ready, NVIDIA’s marketing team sat in a room speaking about what they’d be demoing the next day. They added a set of 30 games to the device itself (most of which won’t be on the final device, but will be available through the NVIDIA TegraZone). They plugged an SD card full of media into the device with movies like Thor and Iron Man.
The team made an effort to “wittle down” the app lineup that’d be launched on the device in this session as well. Twitter, Facebook, and Yelp were suggested, and the final set was selected. Though there is a unique set of apps on this device, SHIELD remains “pure android”, as they say, working with an un-skinned version of Android Jelly Bean.
P-Release was revealed to be just three days before publications like SlashGear arrived to test SHIELD out – just days before Google I/O 2013, as well.
The device is now being produced in its first full run, while the initial pre-order set is coming in less than a month. SHIELD is made to work with Android apps on the device itself with its NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor as well as (in Beta mode, for now) streaming from GeForce GTX-powered gaming PCs.
SOURCE: NVIDIA
NVIDIA SHIELD final hours recounted before Production Release is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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