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    Hope future nVidia drivers round out 460m

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Cary Ader, Oct 4, 2010.

  1. Cary Ader

    Cary Ader Notebook Consultant

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    I'm hoping that driver updates for the GTX 460m will make the GPU more useful for all around graphics intensive computing.

    At this time, apparently, according to nVidia and Adobe's websites, this chip is not supporting products such as Photoshop and Premiere CS5.

    Despite nVidia's site stating the 460m is CUDA enabled, an email from a rep of badaboom video conversion software underscores the "green" state of the drivers. (The reply was to my email asking if the 460m would share calculation processing as other nVidia GPU's already do.):

    "Hello -Thank you for your interest in Badaboom! Badaboom requires a CUDA enabled GPU from nVidia. Their full list may be found here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_gpus.html For the Quadro and mobile products, Badaboom is only compatible with"compute compatibility" of 1.0-1.9 at this time. The full list of system requirements for Badaboom may be found here: Specifications | badaboomit.com Badaboom does not have built-in monitors for GPU/CPU usage. Thanks!- The Badaboom Support Team"

    I'm wondering if anybody has tried the 460m with software that uses the GPU's parallel processing abilities and found that it does indeed work, but isn't officially endorsed for it.
     
    Cary Ader, Oct 4, 2010
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