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NVIDIA’s latest entrant “GeForce GTX 580M”, the Fastest Notebook GPU, ever!

June 29, 2011

Latest notebook GPU all set to excite Alienware M17x notebook users with record-breaking gaming performance

NVIDIA today announced the world’s fastest notebook graphics processing unit(GPU)[i] , the NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 580M. Launching with the Alienware M17x, the new GPU sets new standards in industry leading benchmarks and games. Gamers can lay their hands on the Alienware M17x featuring NVIDIA Optimus™ technology by mid-July in India.

Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director – Asia South, NVIDIA, exclaimed, “The all-new GTX 580M GPU is the fastest notebook GPU ever created, providing enthusiasts with an unbelievable experience for on-the-go gaming. Thanks to the GTX 580M we now have incredibly powerful gaming notebooks capable of rendering the latest titles in higher quality than ever before.”

“The best game support. The best gaming features. The best gaming performance available anywhere. That’s the essence of the GeForce GTX 580M,” said Rene Haas, general manager of notebook products at NVIDIA.  “With power like this, you can turn all the knobs to 11.”

 For an amazing experience, the Alienware M17x will be packed with the GeForce GTX 580M along with NVIDIA Optimus™ technology and will deliver 5 hours of battery life in Facebook, and 100 frames per second performance in Call of Duty: Black Ops.

“Gamers aspire to experience games at their highest settings,” says Shishir Singh, Director - Product Marketing for Consumer and SMB, Dell India.  “Alienware activates the technology designed to enable those aspirations.  With the launch of the GeForce GTX 580M on the power packed Alienware M17x, that synergy continues - Alienware delivers the ultimate gaming experience.”

GeForce GTX 580M GPUs are the fastest Microsoft DirectX11 notebook GPUs on the market, offering up to six times the tessellation performance of any other notebook GPU.[ii] They are also more efficient, with up to 20 percent better performance per watt than the previous generation.[iii]

 NVIDIA also introduced the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M GPU, which offers 20 percent faster performance than the previous generation product it replaces.[iv]

The power of GeForce GTX GPUs means gamers can play at full 1080p high-definition resolutions with the advanced technology features that set GeForce GPUs apart from the competition. These include:

 

• Support for NVIDIA 3D Vision™ technology, the #1 3D experience for notebooks, which automatically converts over 525 titles into immersive 3D.
• Support for NVIDIA 3DTV Play™ software, for connecting 3D Vision-based notebooks to 3D TVs.
• NVIDIA SLI® technology, which links two GTX GPUs for up to double your gaming performance.
• NVIDIA Optimus technology, which enables extra-long battery life by automatically switching on and off the GPU so that it runs only when needed.
• NVIDIA PhysX® engine support, which brings games to life with realistic physics.
• NVIDIA CUDA® architecture support, for GPU computing applications.
• NVIDIA Verde™ notebook drivers, for frequent performance improvements and rock-solid stability.

 

For more information on any GeForce 500M Series GPUs, visit www.nvidia.in.