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NVIDIA releases beta ForceWare 180 driver

NVIDIA has posted beta "Big Bang 2" ForceWare 180 drivers to nvidia.com. The new driver is primarily intended for GeForce 8, 9, and GTX 200 card owners playing Far Cry 2. According to NVIDIA, ForceWare 180.42 delivers improved Far Cry 2 performance over ForceWare 178 and is the driver they recommend for playing the game.

NVIDIA Far Cry 2 Beta Drivers

NVIDIA now offers another set of beta ForceWare drivers, which are now up to version 180.43, enabling NVIDIA SLI on Intel X58-based motherboards and offering further improvements in Far Cry 2 performance as described in the accompanying quote from Ubisoft's Louis-Pierre Pharand: "Since we first began working on Far Cry 2 in early 2005, we have used GeForce GPU’s to develop the game and worked closely with NVIDIA’s excellent engineers. While Far Cry 2 represents an outstanding PC gaming experience for a wide range of systems, GeForce users can expect to enjoy the game quite literally 'The Way It Was Meant To Be Played'." There are new beta version 180.43 driver for Windows XP 32-bit, Windows Vista 32-bit, Windows XP 64-bit, and Windows Vista 64 bit.

NVIDIA charging $5 per mobo for X58 SLI licensing?

By now you all should know that NVIDIA has opened the door for SLI on Intel's X58 chipset without the need for their nForce 200 SLI bridge chip, a first for NVIDIA. But the SLI license doesn't come free -- according to Expreview NVIDIA charges motherboard manufacturers $5 per motherboard for SLI certification.

NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux

Ashmash writes "Phoronix is reporting on a new Linux driver nVidia is about to release that brings PureVideo features to Linux. This video API will reportedly be in nVidia's 180 series driver for Linux, Solaris, and *BSD. PureVideo has been around for several nVidia product generations, but it's the first time they're bringing this feature to these non-Windows operating systems to provide an improved multimedia experience. This new API is named VDPAU, and is described as: 'The Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) provides a complete solution for decoding, post-processing, compositing, and displaying compressed or uncompressed video streams. These video streams may be combined (composited) with bitmap content, to implement OSDs and other application user interfaces.

NVIDIA posts WHQL-certified Big Bang II driver

Today NVIDIA officially pulled the wraps off their so-called "Big Bang II" graphics driver. The new drivers contain numerous performance improvements as well as the ability to run SLI with two monitors (previously you had to disable SLI in the driver control panel to enable this functionality). Here's the complete list of what's new from NVIDIA:

NVIDIA posts WHQL-certified Big Bang II driver

Today NVIDIA officially pulled the wraps off their so-called "Big Bang II" graphics driver. The new drivers contain numerous performance improvements as well as the ability to run SLI with two monitors (previously you had to disable SLI in the driver control panel to enable this functionality). Here's the complete list of what's new from NVIDIA:

NVIDIA makes $61.7M in Q3

Despite the slowing economy, declining graphics share, and myriad of price cuts that occurred during Q3, NVIDIA managed to make money during the quarter, earning $61.7 million. Now granted that's a reduction in profit of 74% compared to year-ago levels of $235.7 million, but not nearly as bad as the markets expected given NVIDIA's current predicament. Q3 revenue fell to $897.7 million, this is a reduction of 20% compared to year-ago levels of $1.12 billion.

NVIDIA Delivers Beta OpenGL 3.0 Linux Driver

"The OpenGL 3.0 and GLSL 1.30 specification were released back in August during SIGGRAPH 2008. Just days later NVIDIA had delivered a beta driver for Windows that added OpenGL 3.0 functionality, but Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris users were left in the dark. Two months later though NVIDIA has now published a beta Linux driver that implements most of the latest GL/GLSL specification."

Rambus files suit against NVIDIA, board partners with ITC

Rambus' lawyers are ramping up their efforts against NVIDIA. After filing a patent infringement suit against NVIDIA earlier this summer, the company has now filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission (ITC):

Rampant Rumour: The Microsoft Phone, Powered by Nvidia?

"What do you get if you take an iPhone, remove the clean UI, user friendliness, nice industrial design, battery life, cachet, functional OS, and in general everything else that makes it worthwhile? The new Microsoft phone, powered by Nvidia. Yeah, you heard it right, MS is going to make its own branded phone, after all, everyone kicking the company around the block has one, so it should too! If you were wondering why Nvidia never mentions the phrase Linux when talking Tegra, even though it is the most appropriate OS for the chip, now you know. NV appears to have sold Linux out to get the MS flagship deal, how nice of them"

Crysis Warhead and Stalker CS - Multi-GPU Gameplay

Crysis Warhead and Stalker CS - Multi-GPU Gameplay - Want to know how AMD's CrossFire and NVIDIA's SLI perform in Crysis: Warhead and Stalker: Clear Sky in DX10 at HD resolutions? We put new-gen CrossFire and SLI head-to-head in six setup configurations to show you what they can deliver. "NVIDIA has squeaked its way back into the best value category as long as you do not find yourself having to buy an NVIDIA SLI motherboard. And in the case of the high end SLI configuration using two GTX 280 cards, you can afford to buy an SLI motherboard and still come in less expensive than CrossFireX."

NVIDIA drops another beta Far Cry 2 driver

Yesterday NVIDIA released another beta driver for Far Cry 2, marking the 2nd beta driver release this week. Again, the new Big Bang II ForceWare 180 driver offers significant performance improvements in apps beyond Far Cry 2, so you may want to check them out if you own a GeForce 8800 GS card or better (unfortunately the latest ForceWare 180 driver continues to lack support for GeForce 8400/8500/8600 GPUs).

NVIDIA's $10K Tesla GPU-Based Personal Supercomputer

gupg writes "NVIDIA announced a new category of supercomputers — the Tesla Personal Supercomputer — a 4 TeraFLOPS desktop for under $10,000. This desktop machine has 4 of the Tesla C1060 computing processors. These GPUs have no graphics out and are used only for computing. Each Tesla GPU has 240 cores and delivers about 1 TeraFLOPS single precision and about 80 GigaFLOPS double-precision floating point performance. The CPU + GPU is programmed using C with added keywords using a parallel programming model called CUDA. The CUDA C compiler/development toolchain is free to download. There are tons of applications ported to CUDA including Mathematica, LabView, ANSYS Mechanical, and tons of scientific codes from molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, and electromagnetics; they're listed on CUDA Zone.

Nvidia announces "personal supercomputer"

Hardware maker Nvidia has announced a new computer that has the power of a cluster of computers at a small fraction of the cost.

Nvidia and ATI Release New Video Drivers for Linux

On November 12th, Nvidia and ATI/AMD, the two major companies specialized in programmable graphics processor technologies, released new versions of their video drivers for Linux-based operating systems.

NVIDIA launching 3D glasses this year, but where are the monitors?

DigiTimes reports that NVIDIA plans to launch their stereoscopic 3D glasses before the end of this year, but apparently there's only one device on the market today that supports the tech: a 73" Mitsubishi 1080p DLP TV:

NVIDIA launching 3D glasses this year, but where are the monitors?

DigiTimes reports that NVIDIA plans to launch their stereoscopic 3D glasses before the end of this year, but apparently there's only one device on the market today that supports the tech: a 73" Mitsubishi 1080p DLP TV:

NVIDIA Makes First 4GB Graphics Card

Frogger writes to tell us that NVIDIA has released what they are calling the most powerful graphics card in history. With 4GB of graphics memory and 240 CUDA-programmable parallel cores this monster sure packs a punch, although with a $3,500 price tag it certainly should. Big-spenders can rejoice at a new shiny, and the rest of us can be happy with the inevitable price shift in the more reasonable models.

NVIDIA Driver Brings PureVideo Features To Linux

Over the course of the past few months we have been saying that the NVIDIA 180 Linux driver to be released in the fourth quarter of 2008 would hold in store a few interesting features. Well, today that closed-source driver has been released in beta form. This driver adds a new VDPAU API, which provides PureVideo-like features on Linux, adds in CUDA 2.1 support, new workstation performance optimizations, X Render improvements, and other improvements.

NVIDIA Driver Brings PureVideo Features To Linux

"Over the course of the past few months we have been saying that the NVIDIA 180 Linux driver to be released in the fourth quarter of 2008 would hold in store a few interesting features. Well, today that closed-source driver has been released in beta form. This driver adds a new VDPAU API, which provides PureVideo-like features on Linux, adds in CUDA 2.1 support, new workstation performance

Nvidia Loses Bid To Toss Rambus Patent Lawsuit

Law360, New York (November 14, 2008) -- A federal judge has refused to dismiss technology designer and licenser Rambus Inc.'s patent infringement case against Nvidia Corp., finding the pleadings sufficient and vacating a hearing on the matter.

Nvidia Announces "Personal Supercomputer"

"Computers using the Tesla C1060 GPU processor will have 250 times the processing power of a typical PC workstation, enabling researchers to run complicated simulations, experiments and number crunching without sharing a supercomputing cluster, Nvidia said."

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