Saturday, March 14, 2009

Graphics Card

Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX Graphic Cards introduced in India
The new GeForce 9800 GTX features Hybrid Power technology, which allows users a HybridPower compatible motherboard to power down their GeForce 9800 GTX graphics card when running graphically less intense applications. As a result users can achieve a silent and low power PC experience.
Besides, Nvidia claims that the 9800 GTX is the most powerful single chipset GeForce card offering gaming performance at extreme HD resolutions. Furthermore users can triple the smack down power by running three 9800 GTX graphics cards in 3-way SLI mode on one of the new XFX nForce 780i SLI or 790i Ultra SLI motherboards for a ramp up of to 2.8 times the performance of a single GPU.
Also the 9800 GTX offers the highest data transfer speeds, enabling it to accommodate bandwidth that is asked by games and other 3D applications. The Hardware Decode Acceleration provides ultra-smooth playback of H.264, VC-1, WMV and MPEG-2 HD and SD movies.
The Dual-stream Hardware Acceleration supports picture-in-picture content and Dynamic Contrast Enhancement on the other hand Color Stretch ensures post-processing and optimization of High Definition movies on scene-by-scene basis with spectacular picture quality. The 9800 GTX is also HDMI capable allowing users to send both high-definition video and audio signals to their HDTVs via a single cable.
The 9800GTX is available in India with Rashi Peripherals and its 53 branches spread across the country at the price of Rs. 21,500.

Zotac GeForce GTX 280 AMP!
The Geforce 9 had a really short stay and NVIDIA has released the GTX 280, around the same time that ATI launched their first card.Zotac was the first to end us their over-clocked version of the GTX 280 that they proudly call the GTX 280 AMP! These new cards are crossing uncharted territories.The Zotac GTX 280 AMP! runs at a core speed of 700 MHz instead of the default 602 MHz. Most numbers on the new card have been doubled from what was on the last 9800GTX. The memory bandwidth has been increased to 512 bit and there is 1 GB of memory on the card. An 8- pin and 6-pin power connector is required to power the GTX 280 AMP! It’s just not all about the numbers. The GTX 280 absolutely destroys all previous records held by single cards. To give you an idea, the Zotac GTX 280 AMP! is about 50 to 75 per cent faster than the colossal 8800 Ultra in most benchmarks. For example, in one of our tests, the 8800 Ultra scores around 100 fps in Prey at 1920 x 1200 with maximum detail and 4x anti-aliasing and 8x antistrophic filtering turned on. The GTX 280 AMP! beat it with a score of 173 fps. Even Unreal Tournament 3 with all the settings turned up gave scores of 119 fps on the Shangrila map at 1920 x 1200. 3DMark 2005 and 2006 scores increased as well, but not to the extent of the realworld gaming benchmarks. The card, in comparison, runs cooler than the 8800 GTXs, more so when compared to the 8800 Ultras. The cooling solution on the Zotac card is stock NVIDIA design. The card is a little less compact than the 9800GX2. It is lighter, but consumes over 300 W when on load. In idle,it drops to as little or lower than a 9800GTX card. A power supply of at least 600 W is highly recommended to any future owners. The Zotac GTX 280 AMP! is a great card and we’re sure some of the non over-clocked versions are really good as well. It would be terribly wrong to say that the GTX 280 is not a good card. There’s significant improvement in performance. There’s one major problem right now, other than the high power demands—the price. The current price for the Zotac GTX 280 AMP! is a whopping Rs 44,444, which makes it way over the top in terms of pricing. As things stand today, the prices are exorbitant and with ATI releasing cards of their own priced at much lower prices offering better value for money, it’s only a matter of time before the prices for the GTX 280 drop. GTX 260s are expected to hit the markets soon, so a little caution at the moment is recommended to look out for some extreme price drops.

XFX GeForce 9800 GTX+ Graphics Card Introduced
The latest XFX graphic card is especially designed to meet gamers’ demands of high visual quality. The GeForce 9800 GTX+ features a PhysX technology that transforms the overall gaming experience with realistic facial movements, weather effects and explosions. Also it incorporates NVIDIA CUDA technology and new CUDA runtime for Windows Vista, which would enable users offload intensive processing tasks from their CPUs to their graphics card.
With the help of the 128 processor cores, the new XFX graphic card can deliver endless array of computing tasks. While the integrated HybridPower technology will allow users to save power by shifting to their motherboard’s onboard graphics (HybridSLI capable motherboard required) when running less graphically intense applications.
XFX claims that optimized gaming can be achieved by running three XFX GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics cards in three-way NVIDIA SLI mode on one of XFX’s nForce 780i SLI or 790i SLI motherboards. Moreover, the generation NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology engine ensures unsurpassed High Def movie picture quality.
The price of the GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics card has not been announced as of now.

Zotac GeForce 9800 GTX+ Series Graphc Cards launched in India
Each individual processor core features an ultra-fast clock speed of 1836 MHz on the Zotac GeForce 9800 GTX+ and 1890 MHz on the ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX+ AMP Edition. Zotac claims that both the graphic cards are ready to take on all 3D related tasks from gaming to high-definition video playback.
“With the latest generation of ZOTAC GeForce 9-series graphics cards, the clock speed and performance of each individual processor core has become an important performance aspect,” said Carsten Berger, marketing director, Zotac International. “The highly clocked processor cores in our ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX+ and GeForce 9800 GTX+ AMP Edition deliver higher performance in gaming as well as NVIDIA CUDA compiled applications, resulting in a graphics card that delivers phenomenal performance for work and play.”
The GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphic card is highly clocked at 738 MHz. users can pair it with 512MB of blazing-fast 2200 MHz GDDR3 memory for high-resolution gaming. While the Zotac GeForce 9800 GTX+ AMP Edition offers higher 750 MHz core and 2300 MHz memory clock speeds for even higher frame-rates and performance.
Besides, the Zotac GeForce 9800 GTX+ series provides support for DirectX 10 with Shader Model 4.0 and OpenGL 2.1 enabled 3D games and applications for brilliant visuals and phenomenal frame rates.

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