NVIDIA today unveiled two new product families: the GeForce 8800 graphics processor, and the NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI media and communications processor (MCP) designed specifically for Intel Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo processors.
“There is no better way to experience Windows Vista, DirectX 10, HD-DVD, and Blu-ray than with a PC powered by GeForce 8800 and nForce 680i SLI. Our announcement today is the culmination of four years of research and development and represents the biggest technological leap we have ever made. Gamers are going to be blown away,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO at NVIDIA.
According to the press release, the GeForce 8800 GPUs are the world’s first to support Microsoft DirectX 10, that will be introduced with the upcoming Microsoft Vista operating system. The GeForce 8800 GPUs features new unified shader architecture comprised of up to 128-parallel, 1.35GHz stream processors, NVIDIA Quantum Effects physics processing technology, simultaneous 16x anti-aliasing and 128-bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) lighting.
The new NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI MCP, which was designed to deliver the highest performance for Intel Core 2 Quad and Core 2 Duo-based PCs. Aimed squarely at the hard-core enthusiast, the NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI MCP is a motherboard solution that includes support for NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU technology.
NVIDIA published that the nForce 680i SLI MCP can more than double the front-side bus (FSB) speed of many Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs. There si also support for SLI-Ready high-performance memory DIMMs, and a third PCIe graphics slot for extended multi-display environments or future physics processing. The motherobard solution has dual Gigabit Ethernet ports.
