NVIDA recently announced that they will begin to merge their laptop and desktop drivers with their Verde program.
The change will start with the 256 Fermi series of cards and will bring their mobile GPU up to date with the desktop GeForce drivers, which is great news for laptop users who may have felt left behind with older driver versions.
This should be great news for gamers, but GPA has been used for more than just gaming recently, and the new NVIDA’s Verde GPU drivers will enable mobile GPU users to take advantage of applications that features CUDA enable performance enhancements.
The change comes with several features, updates and performance boosts on NVIDA’s cards, like a new feature called 3D TV Play, which will enable users to connect to 3D TV’s and enjoy 3D multimedia with 3D glasses and the 197 series, which will get a significant performance boost for games and applications.
But although the goal of NVIDA is to unify all of their desktop and laptop GPU drivers, they will not be universally compatible as notebooks with multi-vendor hybrid solutions like those with integrated Intel graphics and discrete GPU will not be supported.
Lack of hybrid vendor support will be a letdown for some people as many laptops feature multi-vendor GPUs, like the Alienware M11x and Apple’s MacBook Pro.
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