It's also offered with multiple Core i7 processor options, whereas the Series 9 is only available with Core i5, and with integrated graphics only.
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Graphics are only one small-but-important part of this visual-interactive medium we call gaming.
The impact to the rest of the market will be to raise the bar on graphics as a whole, which can only benefit high-end graphics makers like NVIDIA and AMD.
Using a DisplayLink USB graphics chip, we only had to plug in an USB cable to instantly connect the external screen, once the driver was installed.
We swung by the company's trailer to get some hands-on with the T430u -- the first such machine that we've seen packing discrete graphics from NVIDIA. At only 21mm thick and under four pounds, the first ThinkPad Ultrabook is certainly svelte and falls on the more portable end of the spectrum for 14-inch PCs.
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New on that front is the company's just-announced ASM5800 (pictured above) and ASM3202 models, the former of which packs your choice of Intel Core 2 Quad or AMD Phenom II X4 processors, 4GB to 8GB of RAM, 750GB or 1TB hard drives, and ATI Radeon HD 4650 or NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 graphics, while the later is an AMD-only affair with a Phenom II X4 925 processor, ATI Radeon HD3200 graphics, 2GB to 8GB of RAM, and a 640GB or 750GB hard drive.
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That means it's black and white only, and can only show very basic graphics, but it works well outdoors.
Even though these graphics chips whip up close to 1 million polygons a second, they bog down in the data, which can travel only so fast between the graphics accelerator and the memory chips nearby.
There are other smaller players in the market such as VIA Technologies and Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation (SiS) that might have greater flexibility to address specific market needs, but do not have the requisite financial resources to do so when it comes to discrete graphics, AMD and Nvidia are the only two companies that one needs to watch out for.
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Not only does AR have to superimpose graphics over a real environment, but it also has to constantly track the changes in perspective and orientation as the user moves around.
Not only are people making ever more graphics-hungry demands on your servers, but NVIDIA and AMD are locked in an unending spec war that can make it hard to keep up with the market.
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You can open and close the box and move it around, and the graphics match up extremely well -- the cameras only need to catch a couple of codes to generate the image.
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When you spend time in Human Face, you are struck not only by the spectacular photographs, the graphics and short essays from the luminary thinkers such as Juan Enriquez and Esther Dyson, but also by the audacity of the project itself.
In the one-player Story Mode, you take control of one of the three bouncers and engage in a cross between an RPG and an old beat-em-up from the days of yore - think Double Dragon or Streets of Rage, only with experience points and much better graphics.
CalliGrapher from the ParaGraph PI unit of Silicon Graphics, our choice for Best of Breed, not only achieved 100% accuracy but it alone recognizes both print and cursive.
The chipsets, MSM8226 and MSM8626, not only offer quad-core processing and better graphics abilities but are also built on a 28nm manufacturing process that will help increase battery life.
For the money, too, it has an IPS panel and can be configured with up to a Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM and a Blu-ray player. (Hey, bonus points for even being configurable.) Like many other all-in-ones (including the particular Vizio configuration we tested) it will only be available with integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics.
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There's a VIA VN896 chipset for integrated graphics, WiFi and gigabit Ethernet, but it's only certified for Vista Basic, so don't plan on squeezing much Aero action out of this unit.
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And partly thanks to the Adreno 320 graphics core, the MDP even scored an astonishing 132fps in our GLBenchmark test, while the quad core Galaxy S III with Mali-400 graphics came second with 99fps, with the remaining devices lingering around 60fps only.
On the DR1000's 10.2-inch diagonal screen, with slightly brighter whites and darker blacks than the last generation of E-Ink devices, PDFs not only scale to the right dimensions, but their text and graphics appear crisper and more paper-like than E-Ink has ever looked before.
This will not only affect Intel, but also its rival Advanced Micro Devices and graphics processor maker Nvidia.
Its big graphics processor allows it to display moving images with super pin-sharp quality found only in the cinema.
His company faced not only a relentless competitor in Intel but also potential obsolescence of its mainstream graphics business.
But the users with the older version of the Xbox can still play all the newest games (up to a certain point) while only making a small sacrifice on the gaming experience (i.e. graphics and maybe performance).
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Meanwhile, GLBench recorded decent optimizations in overall graphics performance -- of the series of 28 tests, ICS bested Gingerbread in 25 and lost only once.
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Although the native graphics are bigger on the mockup of the Plus, the size of the text is the same, only wider.
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Lewis has picked a totemic figure, Jim Clark, the founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon--a trifecta of multibillion-dollar-market-cap creations pulled off only by Clark.
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