Pc 3d?!

man, i've been out the game for awhile i guess. was just checking out the 670m on nvidia's site as i have one on the way and discovered that 3D is possible...? what generation did this first become available? and this doesn't require a special display? the card does all the work to display the stereoscopics (+ glasses kit, of course)? mind friggin blown.

 

It requires a 120hz display. I believe it works by rendering each eye's image separately and then switching back and forth between them, while shuttering the off eye with the glasses. This means double the rendering work for the GPU, effectively cutting FPS in half since each frame is rendered twice - once for each eye.

According to the Wikipedia article, Nvidia's offered it since 2008. There's probably a better source of information on when it was announced, when it was released, etc, but it's still in its relative infancy in terms of market adoption, at least on the notebook side, with only a handful of laptops offering the capability.

 

I dunno, considering that only a handful of laptops are gaming laptops in the first place, among those there are a fair amount with 3d. I mean just off the top of my head Toshiba, Clevo/Sager and Alienware all offer 3d capable laptops.

In other news theres a thread in the Clevo/Sager forum about overclocking 60hz displays, and someone thinks they can make a BIOS mod to enable 3d at 100hz. Of course not a lot of 60hz displays can handle 100hz.

 

There's also the Envy 17 3D. However, as far as I know, only one of Alienware's four models (okay, now three with them dropping the M11x) offers 3D, I don't know about Toshiba, but if Clevo's got a 3D machine out it must be new this refresh because I'm pretty sure they didn't offer a 120Hz screen on any of the SB models. Considering that there are a lot of MSI and ASUS gaming models out there as well and I'm not aware of a single 3D model from either of them, four or five machines capable of 3D is a pretty small subsection even of gaming notebooks. It'll increase with demand over the next couple years to be sure, but for now it's only a handful and I don't know of any that came out before mid-2010.

Note: I reserve the right to be absolutely wrong.

 

I feel like Asus definitely had a 3d machine. And, Eurocom offers 3d capable 1st gen i7 laptops and i'm pretty sure they offered it with the p170hm.

four or five is really plenty, when it comes to high end gaming laptops, thats about half of whats out there for sandy bridge.

 

Welcome to 2010, glad you could make it.

 

that long, huh? thanks!