NVIDIA Launches GeForce 700M Mobile GPUs With Improved Power Management 35
MojoKid writes "Every year, AMD and NVIDIA re-brand their GPU product lines, regardless of whether the underlying hardware has changed. This annual maneuver is a sop to OEMs, who like yearly refreshes and higher numbers. The big introduction NVIDIA is making this year is what it calls GPU Boost 2.0. When NVIDIA launched the GTX Titan in February, it discussed a new iteration of GPU Boost technology that measured GPU temperature rather than estimating TDP. This new approach gave NVIDIA finer-grained control over clock speeds and thermal thresholds, thereby allowing for better dynamic overclocking. That technology is coming to the GeForce 700M mobile family. In notebooks, GPU Boost 2.0 is a combination of thermal and application monitoring. GPU Boost 2.0 is designed to reflect an important fact of 3D gaming — no two applications use the same amount of power. The variance can be significant, even within the same game. It's therefore possible for the GPU to adjust clocks dynamically in order to maximize frame rates. Put the two together, and NVIDIA believes it can substantially improve FPS speeds without compromising thermals or electrical safe operating margins."
Re:Whats with the weird garbled text on slashdot? (Score:4, Insightful)
It's not every post... but it's nasty.
It's an april fools joke where they used the ROT13 "cypher" (replacement cypher where each letter is replaced by a letter 13 increments down the 26-letter english alphabet) on the posts. It's received quite a bit of "backlash" (bitching by people who can't be bothered to click twice to read the original post in english) which may explain why you're seeing this normal summary here.
Re:Whats with the weird garbled text on slashdot? (Score:4, Insightful)
bitching by people who can't be bothered to click twice to read the original post in english
That'd be fine, if you could do it from the front page. Instead of being able to skim summaries and decide whether or not to go in and check out the comments (or even see if you want to read the article), you have to click to go to the story's page, thus leaving the front page, and then click for the translation. Or run a script that automatically deciphers the text. You can be an apologist for this worthless April Fool's joke if you'd like, but the fact of the matter is it actually made using the site more difficult, and wasn't even funny to begin with.