Issue: SIGGRAPH 2008 - Day 3

NVIDIA & PARTNERS SHOW OFF MOBILE WORKSTATIONS

LOS ANGELES - Nvidia Corporation (www.nvidia.com) is at SIGGRAPH with a new series of Quadro FX mobile GPUs, featuring the company's Cuda parallel computing processor. Workstation manufacturers such as Dell, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP and Lenovo are now offering the new series of Quadro FX mobile GPUs across their range of professional notebook workstations.

The flagship product of the series is the Quadro FX 3700M, with 128 Cuda parallel computing processor cores, which offer 1GB of dedicated graphics memory, helping to make mobile workstations as powerful as desktop versions. Engineered to deliver high-performance visualization of large datasets with extremely high image quality in an ISV-certified notebook platform, these notebooks also feature up to 1GB of GDDR3 memory; up to 256-bit memory interface; up to 51.2 GBps graphic memory bandwidth; OpenGL 2.1, Shader Model 4.0, and DirectX 10; and PowerMizer 8.0 adaptive power management tools.

Additionally, the Quadro FX 2700M GPU, with 48 Cuda parallel computing processor cores and 512MBs of GDDR3 memory, is suitable for 17-inch notebook platforms targeting high-end design and content-creation applications. The Quadro FX 1700M GPU with 32 Cuda cores, the Quadro FX 770M GPU with 32 Cuda cores, and the Quadro FX 370M GPU with eight Cuda cores, are designed for 15.4-inch and 14.1-inch notebooks, which help round out the new Intel Centrino II-based platforms.