nVIDIA works up its mobile Quadro

By Matt Whipp

Posted on 6 Feb 2003 at 15:47

nVIDIA claims twice the performance over predecessor.

The Quadro4 700 Go GL graphics chip is aimed at the mobile graphics professional and offers a number of hardware-accelerated features for stability and performance, according to the company.

It boasts optimised support for a variety of professional 3D and 2D graphics applications, with dedicated drivers for 3ds max and AutoCAD among others, using nVIDIA's backwards and forwards compatible Unified Driver Architecture.

'NVIDIA mobile workstation GPUs are specifically designed for professional users who require freedom and flexibility to be productive no matter where they are,' said Jeff Brown, senior director of workstation product management at NVIDIA.

Features include AGP 8x, antialiased points and lines and full-screen antialiasing, overlay panes, two-sided lighting, user clip panes and occlusion culling.

Dell has already fitted the chip in its Precision M50 mobile work station.

For more details see the nVIDIA Web site.