Nvidia Launches High Powered Mobile Graphics Chip

elbazo writes "Nvidia today launched their new mobile chip the GoForce 5500, which provides a massive jump in graphics technology for handheld and mobile devices. Capable of 'easily' rendering Quake 3, support for 1024x768 graphics output and real time playback of H.264, WMV9 and MPEG4 movies at high resolution the chip looks set to rock the mobile world."

Chip looks set to rock the mobile world

[Anonymous Coward]

nVidia has been saying they were going to rock the mobile world for years. I'll believe it when I see more. nVidia may have been spanking ATI on the desktop (x1900 not withstanding), but ATI has been proven in mobile and handheld. nVidia's efforts have been too power hungry for anything but desktop replacement laptops. Lets hope things change, but I don't believe nVidia pronouncements of "rocking."

Re:not so hot resolution

[RoboSpork]

1024x768 is THE standard, and it will be for some time. If you want your app to be usable to average joes, it better fit inside 1024x768. I found out the hard way when a customer called to ask why our app wouldnt fit inside their screen, I had an instant revelation that with those new shiny monitors we had bought everyone had developed on 1600x1200 and not even bothered to test on 1024x768. What a HUGE mistake that was... Nevermind that 1024x768 is very high resolution for a mobile device with a small screen.

Re:Super for Camera resolutions

[mythosaz]

The problem with cameras in phones is the size and quality of the CCD sensor - not the size of the rest of the electronics necessary. I already cary a 1.3MP camera, and it's a vast improvement over the .3MP cameras on most "old" phones -- but they're nothing near a good 5+MP camera with a good (read: "large") CCD. You also need space and battery for a flash. Those blinking white LEDs don't cut it.

The larger combo-everything phones made by HTC (top end Audiovoxes, iPaq's, iMate) all have this small sensor, no-flash 1.3MP camera. It's useless.

You could easily put my 68 gram Panasonic phone into a Sony Cybershot and have a device smaller than my PDA-style phone -- but it's honestly not available yet.

Re:Riddle me this..

[MS_Word]

Firewire 400 mb/s

PCI express 4000 mb/s

Also you would prob need an external power supply.

Even Sata would need to double its bandwitdh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bandwi dths#Computer_interfaces [wikipedia.org]

Re:Applications for Desktop PC's?

[Jozer99]

I guess you could, but its not made for it. This isn't a "low power" desktop chip, but a low power cellphone chip, power consumtion and processing power are less by several orders of magnitude. As the article says, this thing can handle output at 1024x768, which is the MINIMUM acceptable on modern desktops. The chip also has hardware on it for interfacing with the camera in webphones, which is unnecessary for a PC.