High -end graphics capabilities are well -played in fields such as playing laptops HD video or games and can use a lot of energy and battery life while in use. Finally, laptops with graphics capabilities have a good battery life but sacrifice in the performance area. You can either get a laptop that is shaken, or a great battery life laptop – but not both. NVIDIA goes to solve this problem: Give PC manufacturers technology to provide the best of both worlds to their customers. Today, NVIDIA has announced its new Optims technology. With Optimus, NVIDIA is solving the joint issue of balance between performance and battery life (as it is related to graphics) in the laptop.
Many laptops come with either integrated graphics or unprecedented graphics. Integrated graphics, or sometimes also known as “joint graphics”, usually uses a part of the central system memory of the laptop and uses less power. The disadvantaged (or dedicated) graphics provide high levels of graphics performance and have a dedicated amount of memory in addition to the main system memory of the laptop, though they usually use more power (goodbye battery life). In search of good performance in fields like gaming or HD video, people choose potentially dedicated graphics laptops. The maximum high-end laptop now includes both integrated graphics and discrete graphics-with the ability to switch between the two for particular requirements. This is called “switchable graphics”.
For example, if you are just editing some web browsing or word documents, the user is potentially using their integrated graphics capabilities (and just needed). But when changing the needs of the user and moving into something that requires a little more performance, such as playing HD video, they will potentially turn into their own graphics. In the past, this experience has been a bit, right, witched. A few years ago, some laptops with both integrated and unprecedented graphics came with a physical button that allowed the user to change. But this experience forced the user to re -boot his computer. Then eventually a software solution was designed to switch between integrated and discarded graphics in a laptop, but often the user needs to log out and re -log in or make the user’s screen flicker.
The idea behind switchable graphics in the laptop is that it can provide both low -end and high -end experiences and preserve both performance and battery life. But the experience of switching between the two has not been very good.
That is – so far.
With Optimus, NVIDIA is providing exactly Without interruption Experience between switching from laptop PC integrated graphics to discrete graphics. The user has nothing to do literally. There is no physical buttons here, there is no strange software solution that forces you to log out and log in or flicker on the screen. It’s just, right, switches. I went to the Nvidia office here in Belio to get the Optimus’ demo in early today. I was ready to film a demo for this blog post with my HD Kim Carder. But, the experience with Optimus was so smooth. There was nothing to see because the demo had no benefit to filmmaking! NVIDIA had a small customs app that would tell you when integrated graphics would turn into unprecedented graphics – but when people use this technology in the real world, there is no app to tell them when things change. It is just
The magic of Optimus is combined with software and hardware. Optimus only works on Windows 7 today. NVIDIA software and Windows 7 driver’s model (Windows Driver Model – or WDM) and APIS (such as Direct X and Direct Compt) allow the experience provided by Optimus. NVIDIA GPUS, which supports Optimus technology, provides a hardware component of equality.
Optimus-powered Windows 7 pc-when the user launches an app that requires a little more power for graphics, it automatically and smooth graphics smooth in the graphics. I asked Nvidia how Optimus knows when to go into discrete graphics with integrated graphics. NVIDIA tells me that through the NVIDIA Word Driver Program, through regular online updates, NVIDIA will update the application -related optims profiles with the recommended settings that will tell Optimus to connect or use discrete graphics.
No action is needed by the user, but if you are a gack and want to tell the optimus to switch or not to switch to a particular app or game, you can also do it through the NVIDIA control panel.
So to re -cap: With NVIDIA Optimus technology, laptop PC can now provide users with a smooth switchable graphics experience while protecting battery life and performance.
In the Nvidia office, I was given a demo of Optimus on ASUS’s new UL50VF optimus -powered laptop. While playing some HD video content and some games, the battery life went for more than 3 hours. When we stopped playing video and games, sat down and chatted, we checked the battery life and it went for 8 hours. We examined the battery life using Windows 7 Power icon in the notification area.
For more information about NVIDIA Optimus technology, see their product page and this blog post for more details.
