Nvidia made a giant step forward in evolution of notebooks with introduction of its Optimus technology. This technology is automatically switching between the Intel integrated graphics chipset and Nvidia dedicated video card, according to the complexity of the applications being run at that time. By using this technology notebooks offer both great performance and efficient battery usage. Before Optimus this was made by pushing a button for manual switching from integrated video graphics chip to the dedicated graphics or manual changing the setting within Windows.
Now with the help of Optimus all of this are automatically made by using Nvidia’s Optimus technology which is easy to use, isn’t time consuming (like the older manual switching was), it leads to a performance increase when more graphic power is needed and makes efficient use of battery while in normal use.
Nvidia is comparing Optimus Technology to a Hybrid car that transitions from gas to electric and so Optimus technology automatically optimizing computing experience so the user could work without interruptions. It helps to achieve longer battery life while delivering HD visuals without having to manually change settings.
Optimus automatically switches to the dedicated video graphics solution when a game starts to run, when an HD accelerated content is opened for watching or when a video editing software converts a video content and has support for CUDA, or basically when an application need to use more graphics power. When the laptop is used for office, email, browsing the web, listening music then the dedicated is completely disabled and by doing so, the dedicated graphics card doesn’t use power at all. Is like plugging and unplugging it, if deactivated won’t use any current (like when is unplugged).
Nvidia Optimus works only on Windows 7 OS and is compatible with any combination of Intel Arrandale (Core i3, i5 and i7), Intel Penryn (Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad), Intel Pine Trail (Atom N4xx) CPUs and Nvidia GeForce M next-gen, GeForce 300M, GeForce 200M and ION next-gen GPUs.
Laptops with support for Nvidia Optimus include Acer Aspire One 532g, Asus PL80JT and PL30JT, will be available on the entire Asus N-series laptops starting with Asus N43, N63 and N73, just to name a few. More and more PC manufacturers are expected to include it in their upcoming products as shown at CeBIT 2010.
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