Nvidia Launches High Powered Mobile Graphics Chip 152
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."
Applications for Desktop PC's? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Applications for Desktop PC's? (Score:1)
Re:Applications for Desktop PC's? (Score:1)
Nvidia cant deny us our warm water !! well there always is ATI.
interesting.. i wonder whether SLI would allow it to play some of the newer DOOM3 level games ?
Re:Applications for Desktop PC's? (Score:2)
Re:Applications for Desktop PC's? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Applications for Desktop PC's? (Score:1)
Re:Applications for Desktop PC's? (Score:2)
This type of chip would be used in cellphones or PDAs, not motherboards, laptops, or graphics cards.
Re:Applications for Desktop PC's? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Applications for Desktop PC's? (Score:2)
Re: Desktop applications for Handhelds? (Score:2)
I would advise the mobile manufacturers to sell a huge magnifier together with their phones...
Buy your own: Nokia 3231, 5MPixel photos + 10xMagnifier, Q3 for free!
I hope that Nokia will not patent it, so:
LICENSE: I grant this
Chip looks set to rock the mobile world (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Chip looks set to rock the mobile world (Score:2)
Re:Chip looks set to rock the mobile world (Score:2)
Nvidia just released the 7 series on AGP Due to ATI owning the AGP crowd. So no, theres no spanking going on.
beefy (Score:5, Funny)
1024x768 is nice, but... (Score:5, Funny)
...okok, I do
Re:1024x768 is nice, but... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:1024x768 is nice, but... (Score:1)
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Re:1024x768 is nice, but... (Score:2)
so basically if it had everything that the parent post asked for it would be what he was looking for to begin with?
huh, thanks for the info.... :-/
Re:1024x768 is nice, but... (Score:1)
Well, i have played Doom on a Sony Ericsson P800 while on a high speed train in europe, and its kinda *nice*... feels like playing it on a wide screen.
Re:1024x768 is nice, but... (Score:3, Interesting)
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I'm really interested to learn how
Re:1024x768 is nice, but... (Score:2)
Re:1024x768 is nice, but... (Score:1)
Do I want to watch video on my phone? Not really. (Unless I'm pretty bored)
Do I want to copy all my divx, mpeg4, H.264, etc files to my iPod or other mobile device and be able to hook them up to any TV anywhere and watch them in full DVD or HD quality. Yes, very much so.
The current iPod video can be hooked up to a TV but it can only play standard TV quality video. Once it can play at least DVD quality it will become a lot more enticing.
Re:1024x768 is nice, but... (Score:2)
Re:1024x768 is nice, but... (Score:1)
Here's a link to the SpvQuake [pdamania.hu].
Re:1024x768 is nice, but... (Score:3, Insightful)
1024x768? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:1024x768? (Score:2)
not so hot resolution (Score:1, Funny)
Yes, we're living in the future!
Re:not so hot resolution (Score:2)
Re:not so hot resolution (Score:4, Funny)
Re:not so hot resolution (Score:1)
You idiot! (Score:1)
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Re:not so hot resolution (Score:2, Informative)
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Doesn't seem to be a good idea (Score:3, Interesting)
Maybe they're hoping that fuel cell technology gets small enough for cell phones by the time this hits the market.
Re:Doesn't seem to be a good idea (Score:2)
RAZR V3X has Nvidia 3d accelerator disabled (Score:5, Interesting)
The Motorola RAZR V3X sports a nVidia Goforce 3D 4800 WMP, but for some strange reason it's not used by the KVM. In other words games using the Java 3D API will have the same sucky performance as phones with no hardware acceleration. Some guy even started a petition to get Motorola to change it (http://www.petitiononline.com/v3xpet/petition.ht
Re:RAZR V3X has Nvidia 3d accelerator disabled (Score:2, Funny)
Re:RAZR V3X has Nvidia 3d accelerator disabled (Score:2, Insightful)
gee, great textures on that 2-mm splotch! (Score:3, Interesting)
I mean i guess it's cool they could do it and all, but... the PSP's screen size, frex, is acceptible. Barely. But my cellphone...? (I like how the articles cites "...the original Quake 3 for the Playstation," btw. Uh...)
I just don't get how it's desireable or even not-painful to be looking at smaller and smaller screens and cramming higher resolutions on them. So WHAT? You REALLY want to watch a full length movie on a moving train/bus/backseat on a screen the size of your hand? Ow. Ugh. Oh what an experience. Nah.
Re:gee, great textures on that 2-mm splotch! (Score:2)
Re:gee, great textures on that 2-mm splotch! (Score:1)
Re:gee, great textures on that 2-mm splotch! (Score:2)
The screen on my mobile is bigger than the PSPs. And I don't need to hack the firmware in order to run homebrew apps/scripts. And it has a qwerty keyboard.
you REALLY want to watch a full length movie on a moving train/bus/backseat on a screen the size of your hand?
Nope, that is a sure recipe for headaches. A ten min show is doable on a daily commute. News/weather translat
High-powered? (Score:2, Interesting)
Slashdotters seem to have a short memory anyhow. Here's a jogger. [firingsquad.com]
Re:High-powered? (Score:3, Funny)
Runs games from 1999 with ease? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Runs games from 1999 with ease? (Score:1)
Mods too. (Score:2)
Duke Nukem Forever (Score:1)
1024x768 ... (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't know about mobile phones though - maybe the highest end communicator style phones
Of course digital cameras are multifunction these days, and have large ridiculous DPI displays on them. I wouldn't be surprised to see a 3" 800x600 display on one soon. Again, this GPU would be good for that, and for playback of recorded vide
Super for Camera resolutions (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Super for Camera resolutions (Score:4, Informative)
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.
I wouldn't count on that (Score:2)
Riddle me this.. (Score:1)
The only reason that I can think of is that even fire-wire is not fast enough?
Anyone know what order of magnitude increaase in communications speed we would need to make something like this work? (assuming that is the problem, or course)
Re:Riddle me this.. (Score:1)
Re:Riddle me this.. (Score:1)
http://www.vtbook.com/ [vtbook.com]
I think it's probably mostly software-based, but still pretty cool and relevent to you bringing up Expresscards...
Re:Riddle me this.. (Score:3, Informative)
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:Riddle me this.. (Score:2)
Re:Riddle me this.. (Score:2)
As others have stated: (Score:2)
PCI (standard old PCI) - 32 bits @ 33 MHz in most configurations = 133 MB/second 64-bit and 66 MHz PCI existed but were rare. Even standard PCI is faster than 1394.
AGP - 1x is 266 MB/sec, 4x is 1066 MB/s, and 8x is 2133 MB/s
PCI Express - x1 is 250 MB/sec, x16 is 4000 MB/sec (in both cases, this is minus some unknown amount of overhead.)
Re:Riddle me this.. (Score:2)
The only reason that I can think of is that even fire-wire is not fast enough?
Assuming you're referring to an external 3D card that renders on the laptop's screen, you'd be correct. The video would have to be fed to the notebook's existing graphics framebuffer, because this is usually the only thing capable of driving the screen. This may seem strange, but the PowerVR PCX1 / PCX2 used to render this way to avoid wasting memory on a f
It can run quake3? Oh it must be teh 1337! (Score:1)
Re:It can run quake3? Oh it must be teh 1337! (Score:2)
But how much power does it use? (Score:5, Insightful)
GUI (Score:1)
WHOA! NOT ALL IS AT IT SEEMS (Score:3, Insightful)
Now of course this is a statement in a press story so it probably has all the accuracy of well a press story (0) but what exactly does this mean?
Quake 3 was a PC game. It was the game I got a matrox G400 (bumpmapping) for, well that and dualhead, and I think was typically played at 1024x768 resolution.
So when was it released on the playstation. Oh right, never. A version was released for the playstation 2. Big difference right there but even with its improved hardware the PS2 is still not exactly up to snuff. The resolution is TV, wich is far far lower then you would ever accept on a pc.
So what exactly is this new chip capable off? Can it play at 1024x768 OR can it play at playstation (2) resolutions? Why does it compare a pc game with a lesser console version?
I smell a load of marketing. Reminds me of the days on the farm.
It may be powerfull but comparing it to a poor console version of an old console game is not exactly inspiring.
Re:WHOA! NOT ALL IS AT IT SEEMS (Score:2)
Use your brain for a minute (Score:1, Troll)
And yes I know it is aimed at mobile devices. So what?
But your clearly and idiot. 1024x768 Quake 3 seem fast to you. Right. Because game + resolution == frame rate.
If you actually read my post you will have noted that I point out that it is not quake 3 but rather quake 3 revolution. The first is a PC game and the second is a PS2 game. The PS2 does not have 1024x768 resolution. If you had a brain you would realise that this could mean that the ch
Re:Use your brain for a minute (Score:2)
Re:Use your brain for a minute (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Use your brain for a minute (Score:2)
Q3 on a mobile phone (Score:5, Funny)
Then I realised that kids who can text at 40 characters per second probably won't even blink at the difficulty.
You know you're getting old when you still need a mouse and a keyboard for FPS games...
Consider other markets. (Score:2, Insightful)
And let's not forget that video encoding and decoding are vital steps in video ca
Re:Consider other markets. (Score:1)
http://www.zdnetasia.com/smb/news/0,39043754,3924
Re:Consider other markets. (Score:1)
"Car Computer"? (Score:2, Interesting)
OMFG! All-in-one cellphone! (Score:1)
AND watch movies on...
heck, let's even throw on an FM radio; more features = more profits, right?
And we'll call it...
The N-Gage.
To their credit, though, if a cell-phone can take 10-megapixel pics, I'd seriously consider it.
I'm going back to a land line. (Score:2, Funny)
It is for a new class of device (Score:3, Interesting)
1024x768 is perfect for what I'll call ther "vertual gadget"
THe rumer mills are saying Apple is woring on something like this. Recently filed pattents and trademarks back this up. I fuly expect them to sell some kind of touch sensitiv LCD scren handhald device that does NOT look or act like a small scale desktop.
Obligatory (Score:1, Offtopic)
Aqua? (Score:4, Interesting)
Apples' range of portables has been, to be kind, lacking in features the past couple of years mainly because of their boat-anchor PPC fetish. Apple's Teh Shiny! has been the iPlod range of jewelry and fashion statements, their premier bottom-line enhancement mechanism. Video, hard disks, flash but no sign of an Apple PDA in the mix.
But... imagine an Apple PDA with Aqua, enough smarts to do the look-and-feel kabuki of its bigger brothers, a coat-pocket tablet-gesture device with a 1024x768 display and a Centrino, a shitload of Flash and no battery-sucking hard drive, able to run those new-fangled PPC/x86 fat binaries native. Of course it would be slow and not exactly the device most people whould run PhotoShop on, but as a workalike sibling to the iBooks with all the wireless connectivity Teh Shiny! comes with as standard today I figure it would fly out the door sales-wise.
The killer for this pipe-dream was fitting enough GPU power under the hood, affordable in power consumption terms, to make Aqua usable in less than geological time -- in independent tests, ten out of ten Apple owners never want to see a spinning beachball ever again. I speculated about Cell as a dedicated Aqua graphics engine but from what I've seen about its power consumption that doesn't fly. This device might just do the job though. Hmmm.
Pretty Significant (Score:2, Insightful)
'Easily' rendering Quake 3? (Score:2)
Re:'Easily' rendering Quake 3? (Score:2)
Think about it like this... They gave it the 5500 number for a reason. It seems to me that they feel this chip fits in with the 5000 generation of nvidia products in terms of performance. You'll be pleased to know that my geforce 5700fx w/ athlon 2100xp runs Quake3 "easily" at 1024x768. This rig also happens to run doom 3 with some difficulty at 640x480...a little more difficulty at 80
H.264+Rumors of new video IPod? (Score:2, Interesting)
Wow, 1024x768? (Score:2)
Re:1024x768 And QUAKE 3!!!! (Score:1)
It REALLY bugs me seeing a laptop with a powerful graphics card (Alienware.). Anyone understand why?
Re:Can it run Quake 4? BF2? FEAR? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Too bad I have a laptop (Score:1, Offtopic)
People with POS PCs like yours are not even in the fringe market for new GPUs.
Re: Laptops, mobile CPUs, and upgrades (Score:2)
Today's new GPU is next year's POS PC.
We all know that. I can't tell you how many decades I shelled out anywhere from $2000 to $8000 for the latest and greatest. Nowadays, the difference between a $500 laptop and last year's $2000 GPU PC is - nothing.
So why not make sure that video cards designed for mobile CPUs (as this one is), can be UPGRADED for existing laptops?
We don't buy a new car just because there's a new sound system
Re:Too bad I have a laptop (Score:1)
I was thinking
From that viewpoint, it's been great.
My point is that having non-upgradeable video cards for laptops is kind of silly.
Re:Too bad I have a laptop (Score:2)
COMPUTEX 2005--TAIPEI, TAIWAN--MAY 31, 2005
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6 Series and Mobile PCI Express Module (MXM) brings state-of-the-art NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series performance to notebook platforms with a consistent graphics interface enabling interchangeable graphics cards in notebook PCs.
They have had upgradable video cards for laptops for a while now. All the Dell M170/Insp90000/XPS have them, among others. You just limited yourself by cheaping out on a budget laptop.
You g
Re:MOD PARENT UP (Score:2)
Exactly, how hard is it to put an access port so you can remove your video card and replace it?
Sure, most won't bother, but haven't we all wanted the ability?
Re:omfg not quake3 (Score:2)
Re:omfg not quake3 (Score:2)