Thursday, April 8, 2004
Nvidia Enter Handheld Graphics Race with Mobile GeForce
Posted by Jonathon Watkins in "NEWS" @ 12:00 AM
Hot on the heels of Intel's Marathon announcement, Nvidia have announced that they have a whole family of mobile graphical processors in the offering. These are the GeForce 2100, 2150, 3000 and 4000. "Today’s mobile phones are evolving into complete multimedia devices where voice capabilities are just one of many different features. From high-resolution digital photography to full-motion video and interactive games, mobile phones are now used for a myriad of multimedia applications. The NVIDIA® GoForce™ 4000 media processors deliver megapixel digital photo resolution, full motion video playback and capture, richer graphics, better display quality, and longer battery life for the most advanced, multimedia-rich mobile phones." A phone where voice capacity is 'just another feature', now where have we heard that before? :wink:
"The GoForce 4000 offers a host of advanced features for mobile phones, including support for three megapixel image capture, high-quality 30 frames per second video capture and playback, accelerated graphics for gaming, video conferencing, and NVIDIA nPower technology that enables all these multimedia features while optimizing performance and minimizing the impact on battery life. " The more detailed specs for the top end processor include: Embedded Memory of 640K, Megapixel Camera Support for up to 3MP, 8x Digital Zoom, Video Conferencing, MPEG-4 Encode, MPEG-4 Decode, JPEG Encode, JPEG Decode, SD/SDIO Support and a Max. Display Resolution of 640x480.
Hopefully Intel and Nvidia will work towards outcompeting each other with their mobile GPUs, constantly adding features & dropping the price. Forget VGA, what about a XVGA screen running 3D games smoothly at 60fps? Of course, lets talk about the impact on battery life of these powerful chips…... :?
"The GoForce 4000 offers a host of advanced features for mobile phones, including support for three megapixel image capture, high-quality 30 frames per second video capture and playback, accelerated graphics for gaming, video conferencing, and NVIDIA nPower technology that enables all these multimedia features while optimizing performance and minimizing the impact on battery life. " The more detailed specs for the top end processor include: Embedded Memory of 640K, Megapixel Camera Support for up to 3MP, 8x Digital Zoom, Video Conferencing, MPEG-4 Encode, MPEG-4 Decode, JPEG Encode, JPEG Decode, SD/SDIO Support and a Max. Display Resolution of 640x480.
Hopefully Intel and Nvidia will work towards outcompeting each other with their mobile GPUs, constantly adding features & dropping the price. Forget VGA, what about a XVGA screen running 3D games smoothly at 60fps? Of course, lets talk about the impact on battery life of these powerful chips…... :?
