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October 15, 2009
AppCentral for Partners Program

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New to PartnerForce - bundle exciting new application trials free with AppCentral for Partners! Select from some of the hottest GPU-accelerated multimedia apps available today including Cyberlink’s PowerDVD 9, MotionDSP’s vReveal, and much more! And to help you market your custom bundle, the trials come with automatic discounts of up to 30% off the upgrade to full version.

This program is available at no cost to the Partner with no need for distribution contracts. Simply download the assets and bundle great content with NVIDIA products.

To get started, log in to the PartnerForce Portal and click on the "AppCentral for Partners" tab on the Portal Navigation bar above. Remember to check back frequently – new bundle opportunities will be added monthly!

Exclusively available for NVIDIA GeForce or ION GPUs.


January 08, 2009
Introducing the most powerful dual chip graphics card on the planet!

The NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 295 is the most powerful dual chip graphics card on the planet for gaming and beyond.   Experience the hottest games such as Far Cry 2, Mirror’s Edge, and Call of Duty 5: World at War at mind blowing frame rates, or go beyond traditional 3D graphics with Graphics Plus™ and experience GPU-accelerated NVIDIA® PhysX™ gaming effects, Stereoscopic 3D, and lightning fast video and image processing.

Learn more:


November 19, 2008
NVIDIA® SLI® with CUDA™

The best gaming platform in the world just got better.  The newest generation of SLI® technology brings multi-monitor support for gaming immersion along with new NVIDIA® CUDA™-enabled applications like NVIDIA® PhysX™ technology.  What’s more, SLI® supports all major CPUs, including AMD, Intel Core 2, and now Intel Core i7.  Surround yourself with amazing graphics, breathtaking physical effects, and accelerate your most performance hungry games and applications. 

  • Experience heart-stopping realism with exciting new multi-GPU configurations for NVIDIA® PhysX™ technology
  • Multi-monitor support lets you seamlessly switch between multi-display desktop mode and full screen 3D gaming.
  • Bring your competition to its knees with 3-way NVIDIA® SLI® with three NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 280 GPUs on an Intel X58 motherboard for Intel Core i7 processors.

Learn more:
View a brief On-Demand Training for PartnerForce members on SLI with CUDA
Download the sales and marketing tools from the PartnerForce Portal


Just Graphics Isn’t Enough Anymore - GeForce® with CUDA™ is Graphics Plus™


Consumers are demanding more from their PCs and laptops. They want great graphics plus additional features that allow them to interact with photos, games, images, and videos in a more natural way. NVIDIA® GeForce® GPUs allows you to deliver all this with NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology.

  • Graphics Plus NVIDIA® PhysX™
  • Graphics Plus Video Processing
  • Graphics Plus Image Processing
  • Graphics Plus 3D STEREO


Deliver world-class graphics on today's hottest games, bring games to life with GPU accelerated PhysX gaming effects, offer immersive Stereoscopic 3D game play, accelerate video transcoding for portable devices up to 20x faster and offer faster and smoother digital image editing. 


Learn More:
View the Graphics Plus On-Demand Training
Download sales & marketing tools, including banner ads and the Graphics Plus web module from the PartnerForce Portal


November 04, 2008
Now Available - Elemental Technologies' Badaboom™ media converter

BadaBoomElemental Technologies’ Badaboom™ is an easy to use, ultra-fast media converter that takes a  fundamentally different approach to video format conversion from other solutions. Instead of performing format conversion on the CPU, it harnesses massively parallel GPUs from NVIDIA. By using the power of the GPU*, the time required for video conversion is reduced. As an added bonus, your customers can still use their CPU for normal everyday tasks such as email and internet browsing.  Anyone can now painlessly convert video between formats including AVCHD, leaving more time to enjoy the video and eliminating the frustration of video conversion delays. The Badaboom™ Media Converter provides a fast and simple to use tool for media conversion.

Offer your customers a high-quality, ultra-fast media transcoding solution that leverages NVIDIA CUDA technology to tap into the processing horsepower of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs!

Learn more, visit the Badaboom™ page on nZone.com or download a free 30-day trial version.

For volume purchases or bundle inquiries, contact your NVIDIA sales rep or the NVIDIA Sales Center.

*GeForce 8 series or later card required


October 16, 2008
Introducing NVIDIA® GeForce® 9-Series motherboard GPUs

Get 16-cores of DirectX® 10 graphics and NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology parallel processing horsepower with NVIDIA GeForce® 9-Series motherboard GPUs.  From viewing digital photos, to transcoding videos, to playing the most-popular DirectX 10 games, choose a GeForce GPU for today’s visual applications. 

NVIDIA® GeForce® 9-Series motherboard GPUs deliver:

  • Industry-leading graphics and application performance
  • 16-Core GPU for DirectX 10 graphics processing, NVIDIA CUDA™ technology, and PhysX
  • Choose a GeForce GPU for visual applications—the right processor for the right task
  • Video transcoding: convert video files for use with an iPod 50% faster than on a quad-core CPU  alone*
  • Viewing media: organize and watch online videos and photos in 3D
  • PhysX: enjoy incredible realism with physics accelerated by the mGPU
  • Gaming: play the latest DirectX 10 games the way they were meant to be played
  • 5× the performance of Intel integrated graphics**

The highest performance $449 Optimized PC

  • Deliver a new level of visual computing performance at the same system price with GeForce® 9-Series mGPU and entry dual-core CPU**
  • Highly-integrated mGPU for ultra-slim, desktop PC designs

A dedicated NVIDIA® PureVideo® HD video processor for breathtaking, full-spec Blu-Ray playback

  • PureVideo HD offloads 100% of movie playback from the CPU for all Blu-ray video formats (H.264, VC1, MPEG-2), delivering stunning, stutter-free video more efficiently than a CPU

70%+ Faster Performance with NVIDIA® Hybrid SLI®

  • GeForce Boost turbo-charges performance of most popular discrete GeForce GPUs 70% and higher (8500 GT, and 8400 GS)***
  • For the same system price, you can offer your customers improved overall PC performance with the addition of a discrete GeForce graphics card versus a faster CPU

The NVIDIA® GeForce® 9400/9300 motherboard GPUs are available now from your local NVIDIA Authorized Board Partners and Authorized Distributors.

Learn more about the GeForce 9400/9300
Visit the PartnerForce Portal to download sales and marketing tools

*Video encoding uses iTunes on the CPU, and Elemental on the GPU running under Windows XP.  CPUs tested were Intel Core 2 Duo 1.66GHz and Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme 3GHz. GPUs tested were GeForce 9300 mGPU reference platform and GeForce 9800 GTX. Test systems used 2GB DDR2 system memory. Number of videos transcoded per hour based on an extrapolation of a sample 1 min 40 sec 1280x720 HD movie clip.
**As measured by 3dMark Vantage performance setting versus G45/G43
***As measured by 3dMark2006 and GeForce 8400 GS in Hybrid SLI with GeForce 9300.


September 17, 2008
New! GeForce 9400 GT - Powering Graphics for the Masses

GeForce_9400_GT With up to a 2x performance increase over the equivalent prior generation GPU, NVIDIA® GeForce® 9400 GT GPUs bring your customer's PCs to life! With PCs more visual than ever, your customers can deliver more vibrant photos, smoother videos and more realistic mainstream gaming with the GeForce 9400 GT. By offloading tasks from the CPU, this graphics card allows your customers to:

  • Share, edit and manage their photos and videos easily
  • Enjoy an improved 3D user experience
  • Watch videos with astounding clarity with NVIDIA® PureVideo® HD technology
  • Experience lifelike game play in mainstream game titles

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT GPUs are now available from NVIDIA Authorized Board Partners

Learn more:
GeForce 9400 GT Product Page
Download GeForce 9400 GT marketing and sales tools from the PartnerForce Portal


September 08, 2008
Offer Your Customers More With GeForce – The Force Within!

PC solutions powered by an NVIDIA® GeForce® graphics processor offer your customers a set of advanced technologies uniquely suited for today’s most performance demanding visual computing applications.     The ability to extend the capabilities of your customer’s PC with benefits only available from NVIDIA* represents a significant sales opportunity and value proposition not available from the competition.     The Force Within toolset provides you with the keys to differentiate and emphasize the GeForce advantage to help drive sales and deliver more value.

With GeForce in their PC, your customers have what it takes to experience next-generation life-like physical worlds, up to 19x faster video transcoding**, fully immersive three-dimensional gaming, and superior multi-GPU scaling and game compatibility.

Only GeForce GPUs Deliver...

PhysX - Backbreaker    

NVIDIA® PhysX - The next big thing in gaming!
The best way to get real-time physics, such as explosions that cause dust and debris, characters with life-like motion or cloth that drapes and tears naturally is with an NVIDIA® PhysX-ready GeForce® processor.     Already widely adopted by over 150 games, NVIDIA PhysX technology takes gaming to a new level.

"[PhysX] may just change the way games are played on the PC forever."   -PC Perspective

badaboom by Elemental    

CUDA - A disruptive force in computing!
NVIDIA® CUDA technology unlocks the power of hundreds of cores in the NVIDIA® GeForce® graphics processor (GPU) to accelerate everyday applications beyond gaming.     From video encoding to Folding@home, NVIDIA CUDA technology has become widely adopted by thousands of software programmers to accelerate the most performance hungry applications and redefine the capabilities of the PC.

“… [badaboom] will only work if you have a [NVIDIA] CUDA-enabled GPU, and as such, it stands to be one of the biggest non-gaming killer apps” – Anandtech Transcoding review, June 23, 2008

Stereoscopic 3D    

Stereoscopic 3D  - Instant Immersion
NVIDIA® GeForce® GPUs deliver the integrated hardware and software solution     that automatically converts over 350 existing games to stereoscopic 3D for a new dimension in gaming. With GeForce ,     your customers will be ready for the holiday season when new stereoscopic 3D glasses, HDTV DLP and LCD panels are available for playing all their favorite games in immersive 3D***.

"It is the best implementation of [Stereoscopic] 3D TV I've ever experienced" - Wired Magazine

   

SLI® – The Definitive Gaming PC
With combined multiple NVIDIA graphics cards in a single system,     NVIDIA SLI® provides incomparable levels of graphics horsepower and an awesome out-of-the-box experience with over 600 SLI-optimized games available.

“ [3-Way SLI] is as close to gaming nirvana as it gets...” – Firing Squad

Learn more about The Force Within:

*Refers to GeForce 8 series cards and later  
**The HD Video Encoding test measures the time required to transcode a MPEG-2 1280x720x30 @ 20Mb/s video file to the Apple iPhone format. Baseline testing done with iTunes to do the transcoding. GeForce results tested using the badaboom transcoder from Elemental Technologies.
***Please check nvidia.com for list of supported displays and third party stereoscopic 3D glasses.


July 29, 2008
Announcing Two New Additions To The GeForce 9 Series Family

         

With the introduction of the NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT and GeForce 9800 GT GPUs, you now have two new options to ensure your customers get the best visual computing value and the best performance for the price. Whether your customer wants an ideal blend of graphics power and video performance without a hefty price tag, or is a hard-core gamer who wants to play all the latest games at high resolutions, the SLI-Ready GeForce 9500 GT and 9800 GT GPUs deliver a winning product at each price point.

NVIDIA® GeForce® 9500 GT - An ideal blend of graphics power and video performance without a hefty price tag:

  • The most gaming horsepower ever released in a graphics card under $100*      
  • Up to 3X performance increase over comparable previous generation GPUs
  • Improved 3D experience with Microsoft Windows Vista
  • Spectacular picture clarity and vibrant color with PureVideo® HD advanced video processing technology
  • Up to 2X the performance of a single card set-up when paired with an identical 9500 GT-based card and NVIDIA SLI® technology
  • PCI Express 2.0 Compatibility

NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800 GT - The perfect combination of price and performance:

  • 112 processor cores and 256-bit frame buffer interface running at 900MHz
  • Ultra-realistic physical worlds with NVIDIA PhysX technology**
  • Offload of the most intensive processing tasks from the CPU to GPU with NVIDIA CUDA technology.
  • Industry leading features like dynamic cloth, live debris and next generation volumetric effects, optimized for the hottest game titles of 2008
  • Optimal power management with NVIDIA HybridPower technology***
  • Second generation PureVideo HD for unsurpassed Blu-ray movie picture quality and dual-stream picture-in-picture content
  • PCI Express 2.0 Compatibility

NVIDIA® GeForce® 9500 GT and 9800 GT GPUs are available now from your NVIDIA Authorized Board Partners at your preferred NVIDIA Authorized Distributor.

Learn More:
Visit nvidia.com for product details, or log in to the NVIDIA PartnerForce Portal to download sales and marketing tools like copy blocks, ad templates, web banners and more!

*Estimated street price
**PhysX drivers are required to experience in-game GPU PhysX acceleration. Visit www.nvidia.com/PhysX for details
*** Available on select models. Check with your add-in card partner.


July 23, 2008
Experience PhysX On GeForce!

Delivering physics in games is no easy task. It's an extremely compute-intensive environment based on a unique set of physics algorithms that require tremendous amounts of simultaneous mathematical and logical calculations.

This is where NVIDIA® PhysX™ Technology and GeForce® processors come in. NVIDIA PhysX is a powerful physics engine which enables real-time physics in leading edge PC and console games. With wide adoption in over 150 games, PhysX is designed specifically for hardware acceleration by powerful processors with hundreds of cores. PhysX leverages the tremendous parallel processing capability of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs to provide exponential increases in physics processing power and takes gaming to a new level delivering rich, immersive gaming environments.

Users can experience PhysX on GeForce today with GTX 280, GTX 260, 9800 GTX and 9800 GTX+ GPUs:

  1. Download the v177.39 Beta Driver which includes PhysX System Software
  2. Experience PhysX in Unreal Tournament 3 with the Extreme PhysX Mod Pack

Look for support for PhysX on additional models of GeForce 8 and 9 series GPUs in coming months!

         
          Learn more about PhysX, read the FAQ