Dual NVIDIA GPUs in Dell Studio XPS 13

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Dual NVIDIA GPUs in Dell Studio XPS 13 Offer an End to Notebook PC Compromise

February 27, 2009


News Facts:
• The Dell Studio XPS 13 eliminates the typical notebook compromise between performance and battery life by offering two GeForce GPUs to give users the option of running one GPU for longer battery life, or combining both for greater performance.
• The standard configuration of the Dell Studio XPS 13 features the award-winning GeForce 9400M GPU with highly integrated core logic, which delivers up to five times faster graphics performance than similar Centrino 2 systems1.
• The Dell Studio XPS 13 can also be configured with a second NVIDIA GPU supporting Hybrid SLI to accelerate visual computing applications up to 60 percent2. With both GPUs enabled, popular PC games such as Crysis play with silky-smooth frame rates.
• To extend battery life up to an hour, the second GPU can instantly be turned off, leaving the GeForce 9400M to render an excellent visual experience for watching HD movies, surfing the Internet, or playing casual games.
• The GeForce 9400M GPU boasts 16 parallel processing cores to deliver:
--Up to 5x faster graphics performance than Intel Centrino 2
--Acceleration for Adobe Photoshop CS4 for faster, easier photo editing
--Superb playback of full-spec 1080p high definition video
--Support for popular PC games such as Call of Duty: World at War, The Sims 2, Spore, and World of WarCraft.

For more information about the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, go to: http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_ge ... _g_us.html

For more information about NVIDIA Hybrid SLI, go to: http://www.nvidia.com/object/hybrid_sli.html

For more information about the Dell Studio XPS 13, go to: http://www.dell.com/content/products/pr ... l=en&s=dhs

1 Performance comparison based on FutureMark 3DMark Vantage scores of 100 for Centrino 2 platform and more than 500 for NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G.
2 60% performance gain based on FutureMark 3DMark06 score of 2150 in HybridPower (GeForce 9400M) mode to 3508 in GeForce Boost (GeForce 9500M) mode.

About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) is the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor which generates breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices. NVIDIA serves the entertainment and consumer market with its GeForce® products, the professional design and visualization market with its Quadro® products, and the high-performance computing market with its Tesla™ products. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has offices throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. For more information, visit www.nvidia.com.