All five
notebook PCs in the April 2nd CNET Asia "Top 5 Blu-ray notebooks" article
feature NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GPUs, including the Dell XPS m1730, winner of
CNET's Editor's Choice and Reader's Choice awards. The PCs, featuring
Blu-ray HD drives, are all based on GeForce GPUs with PureVideo(R) HD
technology, which provides outstanding visual quality and stutter-free
performance during Blu-ray and DVD playback. Now that Blu-ray has emerged
as the standard high-definition movie disc format, more PC makers are
adding Blu-ray to their notebook PCs and NVIDIA is providing the graphics
horsepower under the hood.
By using dedicated GPUs specifically designed for processing complex 3D
graphics and HD video, top notebook makers have created the latest
generation of laptop PCs optimized for the visual-computing lifestyle of
modern consumers. The Top 5 Blu-ray notebooks from the CNET article
demonstrate this:
1. Dell Inspiron 1520 (NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS GPU)
2. Dell XPS M1730 (NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT GPU)
3. HP Pavilion dv6700 (NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS GPU)
4. Sony VAIO VGN-AR59GU (NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT GPU)
5. Sony VAIO VGN-FZ28G (NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS GPU)
"While integrated graphics are fine for casual browsing and emails, a
GPU greatly increases the PC's capability to handle interactive and
immersive content and Blu-ray is a key consumer requirement," said industry
analyst, Jon Peddie of Jon Peddie Research. "A GPU delivers visual realism,
snappier response, smoother movie playback, and better compatibility with a
wide range of modern HD and 3D content. And soon complex tasks like video
editing and encoding will be accelerated on GPUs, making the GPU an
essential processor in modern PCs."
With the explosion of ultra-realistic PC games, huge megapixel photos,
3D applications, and graphically enhanced operating systems, people are
demanding a better visual experience from their PCs. All of these new
visual computing trends will benefit from more powerful graphics
processors.
NVIDIA Corporation pioneered a solution for playback of high-definition
movies on the PC with GeForce GPUs and PureVideo HD technology delivering
efficient decoding, advanced video processing, and compliant content
protection. NVIDIA graphic processing technologies enabled Sony and Toshiba
to deliver the world's first Blu-ray PCs and GeForce GPUs remain a central
component of most Blu-ray PCs today.
"Recognition from CNET and PC manufacturers is affirmation of NVIDIA's
position as the leader in visual computing," said Jeff Fisher, senior vice
president of the GPU business unit at NVIDIA. "We are continuing to
innovate and set the standard for video and graphics processing on the PC."
NVIDIA
NVIDIA is the world leader in visual computing technologies and the
inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor which generates
breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers,
game consoles, and mobile devices. NVIDIA serves the entertainment and
consumer market with its GeForce graphics products, the professional design
and visualization market with its Quadro(R) graphics products, and the
high- performance computing market with its Tesla(TM) computing solutions
products. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has offices
throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
Source: NVIDIA
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