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GeForce Experience is completely half-assed; I booted it up on my girlfriend’s PC with a library of 100+ Steam games, only 4 of them were compatible.

GeForce Experience is the antecedent of “it”. Try to work on your reading comprehension before you shoot your mouth calling people liars.

about 8 hours ago on Nvidia will license its Kepler GPU technology to tap into the 'exploding' smartphone market 1 recommend

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There are plenty of big, mass market games she has that weren’t covered. It seems completely scattershot – for instance, I remember that Torchlight 2 was included in GeForce experience, which is hardly a mass market, recent title that they’d “responsibly focus on”.

about 8 hours ago on Nvidia will license its Kepler GPU technology to tap into the 'exploding' smartphone market

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The GSII had Exynos 4 Duo in it, because Qualcomm wasn’t necessary until LTE rolled in. I believe the Note II also has Exynos, I suppose they used some discrete LTE modem for that one since the thing was is so huge.

about 9 hours ago on Nvidia will license its Kepler GPU technology to tap into the 'exploding' smartphone market 1 reply 1 recommend

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Probably, as Nvidia always focuses on delivering more GPU cores and Qualcomm is more interested in efficiency and battery life. But that assumes that benchmarking or even GPU capability matters, which I think they don’t. What matters is that Snapdragon will continue to have better packages than Tegra, namely that Qualcomm is throwing in an accelerometer and continuing to put the 4G LTE modem directly on the SoC. Tegra 4 has LTE compatibility through an optional, discrete chip, which isn’t close to equivalent.

LTE support and battery life is what made Snapdragon S4 (Plus/Pro) win over Tegra 3 in the US and I suspect it’ll continue to give Qualcomm the edge this generation.

about 9 hours ago on Nvidia will license its Kepler GPU technology to tap into the 'exploding' smartphone market 1 reply 2 recommends

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I think Nvidia is doing some interesting stuff lately, but they’re pulling a real jack of all trades, master of none thing. Tegra is slumping compared to Qualcomm. Shield’s only advertisement is above the progress bar when you’re installing video drivers. GeForce Experience is completely half-assed; I booted it up on my girlfriend’s PC with a library of 100+ Steam games, only 4 of them were compatible. PhysX hasn’t had made a big splash since Batman: Arkham City.

They just seem too scatterbrained and it doesn’t help that their Kepler focus is on high-end, expensive tech that the 1% of the PC gaming audience (which is 1% on it’s own, right?) is interested in.

about 11 hours ago on Nvidia will license its Kepler GPU technology to tap into the 'exploding' smartphone market 3 replies

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“Outside of Nintendo’s booth, GamePads are a rare site.”

Sight.

5 days ago on Can Mario save the Wii U? 1 reply

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Weird that the video doesn’t match the accompanying text. In the credits, it says Special Guest: Rachel Haot and Featuring: Katie Drummond, in the text is says Special Guests: Rachel Haot, Katie Drummond.

10 days ago on On The Verge with Katie Drummond and NYC Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot

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He really made a run at making real, natural nature even more nature-y.

13 days ago on Sean Parker responds to his wedding critics: 'everything we did was an homage to nature'

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Probably not a bad idea, those first couple generations were rough. To be fair, even the low-voltage Core chips at that time were hideously underpowered for how much you were paying. There’s a reason why ultrabooks came around at the time they did and Atom got a little better reputation among the techincally educated simultaneously.

17 days ago on Intel may phase out the Atom brand to shed the specter of netbooks 2 replies 18 recommends

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Why would any reporters stick around there if they are now doing the job of two people? I can’t imagine all the photographers got fired and the reporters got a raise.

18 days ago on Chicago Sun-Times trains reporters to shoot with iPhones after laying off all its photographers 5 replies 32 recommends