Nvidia had a lot to show At PAX East. First off, all their systems at the show were running the new Nvidia GTX480 cards in SLI configurations. The Also had Demos of Metro 2033, Battle Field 2 Bad Company, & Avatar the game all in 3D. It did look pretty good.
Booth Tour Video
Another cool tech the showed of was the Optimus technology for laptop and netbooks, which allow for automatic software switching from dedicated GPU to the integrated GPU, which goes along way in saving battery power.
- Optimus technology is completely automatic allowing you to experience longer battery life and amazing visuals without having to manually change settings.
- Behind the scenes and with no interference to what you’re doing, Optimus seamlessly figures out how to best optimize your notebook computing experience.
- NVIDIA graphics you’ve come to expect, with more than 10x better performance¹ with NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology, allowing you to enjoy your applications and games without interruption or worry.
Also had devices that had Tegra 2 chips in them and lots of games stations and contest to booth.( 20 Free codes for the Starcraft II Beta, AHHHHHHH). NVIDIA Did come out to flex some muscle and they sure did in an impressive way
Battle field 2 Bad Company in 3D ( SLI GTX 480 output on 3 screens)
TEGRA 2 chip devices
Netbooks with Optimus Tech