nVidia heeft vandaag een press release online gezet over de nieuwe GeForce2 Go. Deze videokaart voor de notebook heeft genoeg power aan boord om de ATi Rage mobile, de enige serieuze concurrent, in het stof te laten bijten. De kaart kan namelijk maximaal 32MB DDR geheugen aan boord hebben met een bandbreedte van 2.6GB per seconde, 17 miljoen driehoekjes per seconde verlichten en weet als laatste 286 Mpixels per seconde uit te spugen. Aangezien de kaart bedoeld is voor gebruik in notebooks heeft nVidia uiteraard het energieverbruik naar beneden moeten brengen, wat onder andere is gedaan met het verlagen van de kloksnelheid en het gebruiken van dunnere 0.18 micron 'bedrading' op de chip:
GeForce2 Go allows business users, artists, and gaming enthusiasts to create, present and entertain anywhere, anytime. As the world's first mobile graphics processor supporting transform and lighting in hardware, GeForce2 Go delivers breakthrough 3D rendering power, up to ten times faster than that of standard notebooks, processing more than 17 million triangles/second and 286 million pixels/second with a memory bandwidth of 2.6 GB/second. Available in configurations of up to 32MB of DDR SDRAM memory, GeForce2 Go is the first to offer DDR memory on the notebook for responsive graphics.
GeForce 2 Go delivers no-compromise image quality integrating high-end 3D features previously only found on desktop PCs. These features include NVIDIA's Shading Rasterizer™ (NSR) which provides per-pixel lighting and shading effects in a single pass and Digital Vibrance Control (DVC)™ for crisp, bright visuals. Mobile professionals also will have the broadest range of display options via GeForce2 Go's TwinView™ architecture, for displaying information on the notebook screen and a second screen such as a desktop monitor, conference room projector or TV.
For multimedia and entertainment enthusiasts, GeForce2 Go delivers a host of video and home cinema features including accelerated MPEG-2 and DVD playback. GeForce2 Go is ideal for most games and applications as it is fully optimized for both industry application program interfaces, OpenGL® and Microsoft® Direct3D® specifications.
The GeForce2 Go GPU is in volume production now. NVIDIA, in a simultaneous announcement, introduced its first mobile GPU customer, Toshiba America. Notebooks featuring NVIDIA's GeForce2 Go are planned to be available spring 2001.
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