Graphics-chip supplier Nvidia says it will do just fine despite claims by Intel that its next-gen chip will offer the best gaming performance to date.
Slated to debut at the Consumer Electronics Show on January 5, the Second Generation Intel Core--aka, "Sandy Bridge"--boasts improved graphics performance, allowing PC makers to offer low-cost laptops that are more adept at games and multimedia. In short, no extra graphics chip from Nvidia or Advanced Micro Devices will be required in certain laptop models.
But Rene Haas, general manager, notebook products, at Nvidia, says the need for standalone GPUs, or graphics processing units, to handle increasingly demanding games and multimedia data streams above and beyond the capability of Intel's built-in--or integrated--graphics won't change next year. "As we get into 2011 and look at Sandy Bridge, our perspective is that the world is not going to change very much relative to our discrete (standalone) GPUs," Haas said.
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Slated to debut at the Consumer Electronics Show on January 5, the Second Generation Intel Core--aka, "Sandy Bridge"--boasts improved graphics performance, allowing PC makers to offer low-cost laptops that are more adept at games and multimedia. In short, no extra graphics chip from Nvidia or Advanced Micro Devices will be required in certain laptop models.
But Rene Haas, general manager, notebook products, at Nvidia, says the need for standalone GPUs, or graphics processing units, to handle increasingly demanding games and multimedia data streams above and beyond the capability of Intel's built-in--or integrated--graphics won't change next year. "As we get into 2011 and look at Sandy Bridge, our perspective is that the world is not going to change very much relative to our discrete (standalone) GPUs," Haas said.
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20026050-64.html