NVIDIA: External notebook graphics may be a solution
13th February, 2010 by adina
Tags: Graphics, Hardware, Notebook, Notebooks, Nvidia
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NVIDIA seems to plan the introduction of the company’s first external graphics for notebooks, according to one of NVIDIA’s executives. According to one of the latest Xbitlabs reports, Rene Haas, general manager at NVIDIA notebook GPU division, claims that this would be a perfect opportunity on this type of market. The device will probably come out as a docking station or another type of external device.
Haas sustains that one of the biggest problems is finding the right price level for the device, because products available up to date are very expensive. In 2008, AMD has released a similar product, in the form of a high performance external graphics cards, using their external graphics port (XGP) technology. Fujitsu Siemens, though, seems to be the most experienced in what external graphics are concerned; the company is selling a Mobility Radeon HD 3870 box, which can be connected to the company’s Amilo models via an XGP port.
Besides the fact that dedicated graphics processors add significant cost, they also bulk and weight a lot to notebooks. This is why NVIDIA’s plans make sense: an external GPU would be more useful.
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