News: NVIDIA (updates regarding gpuz drivers)

[opethian]

Enthusiasts Add Nvidia’s Multi-GPU Technology Support to “Uncertified” Platforms.
Nvidia’s SLI Can Be Added by BIOS Flash
[03/22/2009 10:56 PM]
by Anton Shilov There is no secret that everything needed to support multi-GPU technologies, such as ATI CrossFire or Nvidia SLI, is at least two PCI Express controllers inside core-logic set, not surprising that artificial limitations can be overrun quite easily. Computer enthusiasts from Taiwan have discovered that it is possible to enable support of Nvidia SLI technology on mainboards without official SLI support.
According to TweakTown web-site, it is possible to flash the latest BIOS of Gigabyte EX58-UD4P mainboard onto Gigabyte EX58-UD4 motherboard to gain SLI support. The BIOS should be flashed using a DOS flash utility and such a re-flash may void warranty or even damage the mainboard. Theoretically, SLI can be enabled on other branded mainboards provided that they are similar to “official” SLI-supporting devices.
Since Nvidia does not have a license to deseign and sell core-logic sets for Intel processors featuring integrated memory controller, the company could not create its own chipset for the latest Intel Core i7 central processing units with SLI support. As a result, the company has to rely on Intel’s own X58 platform to build up ecosystem that supports Nvidia’s multi-GPU tech. Still, in order to gain a revenue stream, Nvidia initiated so-called certification process for mainboards: the company tests a motherboard model in-house and then provides platform manufacturer the right to put SLI logo on the mainboard series for a fixed amount of money per mainboard.
Gaining SLI support on “uncertified” platforms is hardly a big deal: from technical point of view, there is nothing to get: all Intel X58-based mainboards use the same silicon and are pretty similar; those people who can afford acquisition of several graphics cards can certainly afford paying extra $10 to $20 for a motherboard with SLI logotype.
Nvidia and Gigabyte did not comment on the news-story.

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[lughmani007]

i dont think its true

 

[opethian]

NVIDIA Looking to Buy Into VIA

NVIDIA Looking to Buy Into VIA

VIA Technologies plans to sell 300 million new shares at a price ranging from NT$9-12 (0.27-0.35 USD) per share through private placement, the company has announced. NVIDIA is reportedly in talks with VIA to take up a portion of the new shares, according to market sources.

VIA commented that possible candidates for the private placement will be made clear after a shareholder meeting scheduled on June 19. NVIDIA declined to comment market speculation.
In additional news, VIA also announced plans to invest an extra NT$900 million into its optical storage making subsidiary, VIA Optical Solution.

Source: DigiTimes

NVIDIA nForce 980a SLI Reference Platform Motherboard Pictured
Pursuing legal action against Intel for bringing its Intel-compatible platform development to a grinding halt due to legal complications, NVIDIA has kept its platform development for AMD on track. The company has made the nForce 980a SLI platform official, that supports the latest Phenom II series processors from AMD. The company published the product page on its website, and has pictured its reference design motherboard based on the chipset. The motherboard carries the "designed by NVIDIA" marking, which makes it a design that several of its AIC partners such as EVGA, XFX, Zotac, etc., can use simultaneously.

The motherboard sports the nForce 980a SLI chipset, paired with the nForce 200 PCI-Express bridge chip. The motherboard features a GeForce 8300-class IGP, with DVI-D and D-Sub outputs. It supports NVIDIA 3-way SLI and Quad-SLI. As an AMD platform, the chipset supports AM2, AM2+ and AM3 socket processors, with DDR3 and DDR2 memory support (depending on the processor). A 5-phase digital PWM circuit powers the processor. The nForce 980a SLI and nForce 200 chips are located adjacent to each other, and are cooled actively by a fan-heatsink. The product design looks production-grade and may attract partners to sell it.

SOURCE: Nvidia

 

[opethian]

NVIDIA Releases GeForce 182.50 WHQL Drivers
NVIDIA today released its GeForce 182.50 driver suite for Windows XP and Windows Vista. This release comes at a time when the company released the GeForce GTX 275 accelerator, making it obvious the driver extends support to it. While the driver doesn't aim bring in application-specific enhancements, it does fix numerous bugs, which invariably may improve product quality. It brings in single-GPU and SLI optimizations for seveal upcoming game titles. For a complete list of changes, refer to the Release Notes documents for Windows XP and Windows Vista.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_182.50_whql.html

DOWNLOAD:GeForce 182.50 WHQL for Windows XP 32-bit | Windows XP 64-bit | Windows Vista 32-bit | Windows Vista 64-bit

 

[fawad]

hmm.......so what good it will do to the masses?

 

[opethian]

those who own nvidia gpus it might be of any intrest for them ...
waisay nice sig pic bro

 

[opethian]

Here is another update so i think few out of u would fin it use ful!!! n give us ur feed back whether its true or not!!!

NVIDIA Releases GeForce 185.65 BETA Drivers
On the same day as releasing the GeForce 182.50 WHQL drivers, NVIDIA has also released a GeForce BETA driver with version 185.65, for both Windows Vista and XP.

New in Release 185.65:

• Adds support for the new GeForce GTX 275 GPU.
• Adds support for Ambient Occlusion – the newest NVIDIA Control Panel feature to offer enhanced 3D gaming realism exclusively to GeForce GPUs. (Vista Only)
• Adds support for CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See nvidia.com/cuda for more details.
• Accelerates performance in several 3D applications. The following are examples of improvements measured with Release 185 drivers vs. Release 182 drivers (results will vary depending on your GPU, system configuration, and game settings):

• - Up to 11% performance increase in Call of Duty: World at War - Up to 5% performance increase Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
  - Up to 22% performance increase Crysis: Warhead with antialiasing enabled
  - Up to 11% performance increase in Fallout 3 with antialiasing enabled
  - Up to 14% performance increase in Far Cry 2
  - Up to 45% performance increase in Mirror’s Edge with antialiasing enabled

• Supports GeForce Plus Power Pack #3. Download these FREE PhysX and CUDA applications now!
• Numerous bug fixes. Refer to the release documentation notes.

DOWNLOAD: GeForce 185.65 BETA for Windows XP 32-bit | Windows XP 64-bit | Windows Vista 32-bit | Windows Vista 64-bit

 

[devildante99]

^^

I have got to try that version.

 

[opethian]

NVIDIA Introduces Industry's First Debugger and Profiler For GPU Computing
The CUDA architecture continues to blaze a trail as the leading platform for developing and running GPU Computing applications, with support for C, OpenCL, DirectX Compute, Fortran and other languages and APIs. The latest CUDA 2.2 Beta contains a host of significant new features, including:

Hardware debugger for the GPU
Linux developers can now use a debugger on CUDA-enabled GPUs that offers both the familiar interface of the popular open-source GDB debugger and the ability to debug kernels as they execute on the GPU. The GPU-side debugger has all the features that developers expect from GDB, including the ability to have breakpoints, watch variables, inspect state, etc., as well as additional functions for CUDA-specific features.

Visual Profiler v2.2 for the GPU
The most common step in tuning application performance is profiling the application and then modifying the code. The CUDA Visual Profiler is a graphical tool that enables profiling C applications running on the GPU. This latest release of the CUDA Visual Profiler supports full measurement of memory bandwidth within a kernel, giving developers visibility into one of the most performance-critical areas of CUDA.

Full support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008
Tesla C1060 and S1070 are now fully supported under both Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 2008, offering developers and high-performance computing users more flexibility in their choice of operating system. CUDA 2.2 runs on Windows, MacOSX and major LINUX distributions.

Additional Features Coming with CUDA 2.2

• Improved OpenGL interop performance
• Texture from pitch linear memory
• Zero-copy support for direct access to system memory
• Pinned shared system memory allows compute kernels to share system memory
• Asynchronous memcopy on Vista

For a full list of new features in CUDA 2.2 and to get early access, see discussion on the CUDA forums.
Source: NVIDIA
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[Rafay321]

whose gona try it first on PG?

 

[opethian]

well rafay i think no one is intrested in such news ...
khair lets see if some one reads it and uses it ... alas i have very slow net otherwise i wud have tried it myself

 

[opethian]

NVIDIA Unviels Industry's First Integrated GPU Platform For Broadcast Production
NVIDIA Corporation today introduced the NVIDIA Quadro Digital Video Pipeline, the industry’s first integrated GPU-based platform for broadcasters to acquire, process and deliver virtual effects to video.
The solution offers the fastest graphics computation engine for broadcast production, in a flexible, reliable and cost-effective PC-based platform. By providing a direct path for image processing into and out of the GPU, it allows professionals to incorporate higher quality, graphic-rich broadcasts in real time. It also offers the fastest path for capturing and transcoding HD broadcast-quality video for use in real-time Internet streaming services.

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“Our customers rely on us to deliver high-quality broadcasts in real-time,” says Paul Lacombe, president at Brainstorm America. “With the NVIDIA Quadro Digital Video Pipeline, we can now utilize the power of the GPU from acquisition to final delivery; allowing us to meet the direct needs of our customer’s and offer then higher quality, more graphic-rich broadcasts in real-time. This system is going to change the course of live broadcast.”

The Quadro Digital Video Pipeline integrates the following:

• Quadro SDI Capture card - enables uncompressed video to be streamed directly to Quadro SDI-enabled GPU memory, with the ability to capture up to four HD-SDI Single link sources simultaneously. Supports all SMPTE standard formats (3G, 2K, HD and SD) and includes a monitor out of the primary input.
• Quadro SDI Output card - provides an integrated graphics-to-video solution, enabling 2D and 3D effects to be composited in real-time with 2K, HD and SD video. It can be genlocked to external house sync, or synced to the SDI Capture card.
• Quadro FX professional GPU solutions – choose from the latest generation Quadro FX 3800, Quadro FX 4800 and Quadro FX 5800. Based on NVIDIA’s revolutionary CUDA parallel computing architecture, Quadro offers advanced features and capabilities, up to 240 parallel processing cores and support for next-generation OpenGL and Microsoft DirectX 10 applications.
• Quadro Digital Video Pipeline SDK – includes an extensive software development kit containing samples, APIs and plug-ins that allow applications to easily optimize the graphics and data processing pipelines of the Quadro GPU. This ensures easy programmability and control through the entire Digital Video Pipeline -- from capture through final delivery.

“The Quadro Digital Video Pipeline lets us bypass the CPU and main memory, and take full advantage of the visual and computational power of the GPU,” said Marv White, chief technology officer, Sportvision. “By continuing to work closely with NVIDIA, we’re ensuring our customers continue to get the most innovative technology in live broadcast today."
“Over the next two years, we’re going to see an even bigger surge in the adoption of on-air broadcast graphics and virtual sets,” said Jeff Brown, general manager, professional solutions, NVIDIA. “We can hardly wait to see what the broadcast community will do with this with new technology.”

NVIDIA is highlighting the new platform at the NVIDIA NAB 2009 booth: SL 7906, lower South Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center, from April 20 to 23, 2009.

Pricing and Availability
NVIDIA Quadro Digital Video Pipeline will ship August 2009. The estimated street prices range from $5,000 to $8,000 USD, depending on configuration. Special partner discounts are available for those who qualify. For more information on NVIDIA Quadro Digital Video Pipeline, visit: http://www.nvidia.com/quadro/dvp.


http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1240222321619.html

Source: NVIDIA

NVIDIA Outsources 40 nm to Foundry Partners in Q2
With rival AMD having a production-grade 40 nm graphics processor, and UMC's recent announcement of being ready with a high-performance 40 nm manufacturing node, the conditions are increasingly favourable for NVIDIA to flag-off large-scale production of 40 nm GPUs. According to Chinese print-media Commercial Times, the company set its foundry outsourcing schedule for within Q2 2009, with TSMC and UMC being the regular foundry-partners.

Within this quarter, NVIDIA will start mass-production of the entry-level GT218, high-end mobile GT215 and mainstream desktop GT214 and GT216 GPUs. Additionally, the company may also expand its output for the 55 nm G200b high-end GPU.

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20090420PB205.html

Source: DigiTimes