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The GTS benefited from the fact that Nvidia had by this time acquired extensive manufacturing experience with their highly integrated cores, and as a result they succeeded in optimizing the core for clock-speeds. The volumes of chips Nvidia was producing ... enabled them to bin split parts, picking out the highest quality cores for their premium range. As a result, the GTS shipped at 200 MHz. The pixel fill rate of the GeForce256 nearly doubled, and texel fill rate nearly quadrupled because multi-texturing was added to each pixel pipeline. New features included S3TC compression, FSAA, and improved MPEG-2 motion compensation.
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Currently Nvidia has no intention of fixing the memory handling problem in the 9xxx series of drivers. The issue was partially addressed in the 100.xx releases, but has not yet been completely fixed.
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File Description: This is the first of the long awaited 77 series Forceware driver for Nvidia video cards. This driver is a strong performer in its unmodified state, keeping up with all current drivers including the 76 series in speed, while offering a considerable improvement in image quality, particularly image sharpness in games such as Counter-Strike Source. This driver ... improves performance considerably in shader model 3.0 games and greatly improves High Dynamic Range Lighting performance and quality.
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In many respects, Nvidia resembles its competitor ATI, because both companies began with a focus in the PC market, but later expanded their businesses into chips for non-PC applications. Nvidia does not sell graphics boards into the retail market, instead focusing on the development of GPU chips. The manufacturing of Nvidia chips, as a fabless semiconductor company occurs in the Taiwanese TSMC. As part of their operations, both ATI and Nvidia do create "reference designs" (board schematics) and provide manufacturing samples to their board partners.BFG, EVGA, PNY, and XFX are some prominent Nvidia card manufacturers. ASUS and MSI are examples of manufacturers of both ATI and Nvidia cards.
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If he's right, then Nvidia will be smartly positioned. Even more so should it encroach on the CPU business. An April 1 story posted on Slashdot announced a merger between Nvidia and AMD - where Huang used to work. It was meant as a joke, but such a merger has been the subject of serious speculation for months. It would give Nvidia total control of the PC's innards and, eventually, an array of post-PC devices. Huang doesn't cop to this plan, but when he talks about expanding into handhelds, dashboards, and cell phones, he never suggests waiting for Intel - or anyone else.
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December 2004 saw the announcement that Nvidia would assist Sony with the design of the graphics processor (RSX) in the Sony PlayStation 3 game-console. As of March 2006, it is known that Nvidia will deliver RSX to Sony as an IP-core, and that Sony alone would be responsible for manufacturing the RSX. Under the agreement, Nvidia will provide ongoing support to port the RSX to Sony's fabs of choice (Sony and Toshiba), as well as die-shrinks to 65 nm. This is a departure from Nvidia's business arrangement with Microsoft, in which Nvidia managed production and delivery of the Xbox GPU through Nvidia's usual third-party foundry contracts.
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