Look out, savvy graphics card buyer: just because it’s labelled ‘GeForce’ and starts with a ’6′ doesn’t necessarily mean it benefits from NVIDIA’s premium 28nm Kepler architecture. We’ve already seen rebadged mobile chips with last-gen 40nm silicon, and now entry-level desktop cards are arriving on shelves that will stretch Fermi’s expiry date even further. There are no price tags as yet, but according to AnandTech the ‘new’ GeForce GT 610 is a repackaged GT 520 with 48 CUDA cores and an ever-so-polite 29-watt power draw. The GT 620 is a GT 530 with a 49-watt TDP and twice as many CUDA cores as the 610 — although a meager 64-bit memory bus will put a cap on any performance gains. Finally, the GT 630 is a 65-watt GT 440 in all but name, with a 128-bit memory bus width allowing its 96 CUDA cores to be fully exploited. This latter card shouldn’t be confused with the OEM version of the GT 630, which does actually pack Kepler. Bewildering, right? We’ve quizzed NVIDIA over its strange rebadging tradition and were told that the company simply numbers its products according to raw performance, rather than freshness or chip type — which sort of makes sense so long as you don’t dwell on it.
NVIDIA outs budget GeForce GT 610, GT 620 and GT 630, no Kepler in any of ‘em originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 20 May 2012 15:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sony has announced a refresh of its VAIO S Series laptops, along with a pair of new E Series models. The S Series will come with a choice of 13.3- and 15.5-inch displays; the 15.5-inch model has a 1080p IPS screen, while the 13.3-incher doesn’t have its resolution specified — we’re going to go ahead and assume that, like the previous generation S Series, it’ll max out at 1600 x 900. The larger model will feature a 22nm Ivy Bridge Core i7-3612QM 2.1GHz quad-core processor, 8GB of RAM, and an Nvidia GeForce GT 640M LE discrete GPU, alongside Intel’s HD Graphics 4000 integrated chip. There’s a generous 1TB of storage on board, along with Bluetooth 4.0, two USB 3.0 ports, a single USB 2.0 port, and a 1.31-megapixel webcam. Both models will…
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NVIDIA looking for a piece of next-generation smartphones shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to anyone, but CEO Jen-Hsun Huang dropped a few details in a recent email to staffers that’s sure to spur at least a little excitement. As AnandTech reports, in addition to marking the launch of the company’s new Kepler-based GeForce GTX 680 graphics card, he also looked towards future possibilities for the GPU, noting that “today is just the beginning of Kepler,” and that “because of its super energy-efficient architecture, we will extend GPUs into datacenters, to super thin notebooks, to superphones.” Not surprisingly, that’s about as specific as things got as far as mobile devices are concerned, with no mention whatsoever as to when we might see such Kepler-based “superphones.”
NVIDIA CEO suggests Kepler GPUs could be headed to future ‘superphones’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 24 Mar 2012 01:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Acer’s Aspire Timeline Ultra M3-581TG is more than just a mouthful: it’s an ultrabook, too. Oh, and it’s not just any ultrabook: it’s the first ultrathin, long-lasting laptop with dedicated GeForce graphics. While we’re at it, we should probably mention that it’s not just any dedicated graphics chip either, but rather Nvidia’s first long-awaited Kepler GPU… and according to Nvidia, it can play Battlefield 3 on ultra settings at the laptop’s native 1366 x 768 resolution. If that’s not impressive enough, the company claims the Ultra M3 can still manage eight hours of battery life for normal tasks using Nvidia’s Optimus graphics switching solution. The 20mm thin chassis holds an optical drive, to boot.
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Back in September of last year NVIDIA pledged that the successor to Fermi, Kepler, would arrive in 2011. Since then, things have been rather quiet on the next-gen GPU front. In fact, rumors have started to circulate that the 28nm-based chip would be pushed back to 2012. Turns out those rumblings aren’t entirely inaccurate. While the latest polygon pushing silicon will start being churned out before it’s time to buy a new calendar, final products won’t start shipping until next year, as a company rep told TechSpot. Kepler’s descendent, Maxwell, is still expected to land sometime in either 2013 or 2014, but there’s plenty of time for that timetable to slide back a bit too.
NVIDIA’s Kepler GPU still (kinda, sorta) on schedule for 2011 debut originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Not a lot of details to be had, but NVIDIA wants you to know Fermi isn’t the company’s be-all, end-all GPU — “hundreds of engineers” are already hard at work on Codename Kepler, expected to go to production this year and ship in 2011. Kepler’s based on a 28nm process, we’re told, and will thankfully deliver an estimated 3 to 4 times the performance per watt compared to Fermi, and hopefully run cool. If you built your last PC to last, however, you might wait for Maxwell in 2013, supposedly bringing a sixteen-fold increase in parallel graphics-based computing just two years after that, including advanced features like the ability to autonomously process some content independent of a CPU.
NVIDIA reveals Fermi’s successor: Kepler at 28nm in 2011, Maxwell in 2013 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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