If you’re not gambling or laptops to keep up with the latest NVIDIA Optimus notebook may be totally foreign to you. So, for the purposes of this article, and your mental health, and we will try to keep this discussion in the non-technical as possible.
First, Nvidia Optimus refers to new technology that allows switching graphics perfect components for your laptop to save energy. For example, you can switch between integrated graphics and discrete graphics card, whenever you need them, or which one is best suited to meet the demand and computing chore at hand. Since the switchable graphics simply means that you get a better visual and longer battery life in laptops.
Now it is not entirely new, we had switched to graphics in a notebook, but what is revolutionary Optimus – everything happens automatically in the background, without interrupting the end user and do not even know have occurred.
In some previous systems, laptop wizard had to switch manually or graphics. Optimus changes without any training simple concepts, is like going from the standard car, automatically or can be rather better comparison would be to think of hybrid cars, drivers have to know when a vehicle runs on gas or battery, because everything happens automatically in the background. You all know a hybrid car you smoothly from point A to point B.
What is so significant about Nvidia Optimus is the general use of this technology, if the notebook or netbook has a Nvidia GPU and CPU / chipset with IGP, there is no reason why it can not be installed Optimus. The costs are very small and can easily be absorbed in the cost of the GPU, so you can expect to appear in Optimus ION netbooks, notebooks and especially traditional high-end gaming rigs. About 50 Optimus enabled laptops come in the summer of 2010.
Let’s face it, a high-performance notebooks for games is one of the main problems, reduced battery life when Optimus can increase battery life will be a welcome addition. Nvidia has made some serious allegations, with this new technology, but if only half of what they say comes out, so it is truly a revolutionary breakthrough. Only an increase in battery life alone would Optimus a big step forward.
How Optimus work?
Maybe we need to get a little technical. Currently Optimus recognize claims based on the executable file name, but can go a little deeper recognition application, or what is called in order to obtain the best performance. For example, general Web surfing, is not usually necessary discrete GPU, but if you run into Flash Video will start Optimus GPU and route calls through a video processing engine. End GPU Flash video and can support back. Also, whenever you need DirectX (OpenGL), DXVA (DirectX Video Acceleration), or (Compute Unified Device Architecture), CUDA function – Optimus to discrete GPU. If you want a very good and very detailed technical description of Optimus.
However, you have to remember, however, Optimus will work perfectly in the background and should be seen not so much as a flicker on the screen laptop. Since using the correct parts of the laptop to give you the best results when using the smallest amount of energy saving and battery life.
One of the first laptops to use technology UL50Vf Optimus is ASUS, and it is very necessary that one of the first laptops Optimus comes from ASUS. Since Asustek has long been a leader in innovative products and technologies for the notebook. For example, initiated a popular netbook category is the top back on the Eee PC in autumn 2007. Moreover, we first 3D notebook, also from ASUS, which is Asus G51J 3D gaming notebook characterized NVIDIA 3D Vision and one of the first LED-backlit LCD 120Hz double master images required for 3D games.
Optimus is a revolutionary gaming laptop?
This is probably the machine power-hungry high-performance that Optimus could play an important role. Provision of additional battery life will be a big advantage, especially if the cost of providing longer battery life, is almost zero. Undoubtedly, one laptop manufacturers and designers into the hands of this new technology, we see some new features and use, particularly regarding the game.
The perfect supply switch up or down, depending on the use manipulation could be very useful in a gaming notebook. Automatically switches to integrated graphics to discrete graphics card or GPU can increase the efficiency of your laptop and save energy. Players will be able, if necessary, and all technologies that can provide this function will be welcomed with open arms. Although nobody can predict the future, but if Nvidia Optimus technology can offer players and gaming notebooks seamless switching graphics and battery life, then the future looks really clear.
