Along with new games for consoles, this holiday season will be seeing a lot of new titles for the PC too. Since many gamers prefer laptops to desktops, NVIDIA has just come out with its GeForce 8800M notebook GPUs. Crysis, Unreal Tournament 3, and Call of Duty 4 are expected to be on the wishlist of nearly every gamer using the Windows platform.
Mark Rein is the vice president of Epic Games, who are the creators of the game Unreal Tournament 3 and the Unreal Engine 3 game engine. He reckons, “I am absolutely amazed by the sheer performance of the new GeForce 8800M GTX-powered notebooks. These next-gen machines run Unreal Tournament 3 fantastically even at HD resolutions of 1920×1200. I am ordering one!”
Cervat Yerli, CEO, Crytek says, “With the new GeForce GPUs, NVIDIA is bringing gamers the ultimate gaming experience available on a notebook. For gamers wanting to experience the advanced visual realism of Crysis the new GeForce 8800M powered machines are the ones to get.”
Frank Azor, Executive VP, Product Group and Marketing, Alienware quoted, “Alienware’s philosophy when designing the industry’s most powerful 17 and 15-inch notebooks was the commitment to using only the best components designed around the most current technologies. Alienware proudly announces that our next generation notebooks, the Area-51 m17x and Area-51 m15x, launching early next year, will feature the raw power and stunning detail of NVIDIA’s GeForce 8800M GTX.”
About the NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GPUs:
The new NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX and GeForce 8800M GTS score the highest on industry-standard benchmarks for GPUs in their class and are the perfect complement for the new generation of DirectX 10 games for the gamer on the go. In addition to serving as the core of a great, notebook gaming platform, the NVIDIA GeForce 8M Series GPUs feature the NVIDIA PureVideo HD engine for superior quality playback of HD DVD, Blu-ray, and HD movie downloads. The GeForce 8M Series also contain NVIDIA’s PowerMizer technology that intelligently balances battery life and performance.
Delivering the best performance for both DirectX 10 and DirectX 9, the GeForce 8800M GTX and GeForce 8800M GTS GPUs fill the top enthusiast GPU product positions in the popular NVIDIA GeForce 8M Series product line, continuing the company’s five generations of performance leadership in notebook GPUs. The new GPUs feature NVIDIA’s new, extremely efficient, unified architecture that delivers amazing levels of performance compared to previous generation GPUs.
Notebooks featuring the new GeForce 8800M GTX GPUs will soon be available for order from notebook makers. NVIDIA is sure going to have a good time this holiday season as many gaming enthusiasts are expected to buy notebooks and with the advent of the Christmas season together with the sales in stores, analysts are backing on the fact that laptops will do exceptionally well.