NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Awarded Best Choice “JURY’S SPECIAL AWARD” at COMPUTEX 2010

Taipei Computer Association Recognizes GeForce GTX 480 for Innovation and Marketability

COMPUTEX 2010—TAIPEI, TAIWAN—JUNE 1, 2010—NVIDIA Corporation today announced that the NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 480 graphics processing unit (GPU) has earned the prestigious “Jury’s Special” award of Best Choice 2010 from the Taipei Computer Association (TCA).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 was selected from more than 400 products from eight electronic product categories including Computer and System, Display and Digital Entertainment, Peripherals and Accessories, etc. Nominated products were stringently examined by the “Jury of Best Choice of COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2010 Award.” The jury is composed of local and foreign judges from the technology industry and academia. They evaluated the nominated products based on innovation, marketability and technicality.

“NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 is indeed an impressive candidate among all the nominated products for this year’s Best Choice Award,” said the jury of the Best Choice Award. “It presents a variety of innovations like its robust tessellation performance, scalable geometry architecture, and many future-proof features, enabling outstanding horsepower for the latest and the most demanding consumer applications.”

“We are so delighted that NVIDIA has won the great honor from Taipei Computer Association for two years in a row,” said Drew Henry, general manager of the desktop GPU business unit at NVIDIA, who attended the awards ceremony held by Taipei Computer Association today. “With the GeForce GTX 480, we are delivering a revolutionary compute architecture for exceptional gaming performance, first-rate image quality, and film-like geometric realism, which, we believe dramatically enhances the end user visual experience.”

GeForce GTX 480 is on display in the latest graphics cards and PC systems that the leading add-in card vendors, PC system builders and IHV, ISV ecosystem partners are showcasing at Computex, including Acer, ASL/Giada, Asrock, Asus, Biostar, Clevo, Cooler Master, DFI, ECS, EVGA, Forsa, Galaxy, Gigabyte, IKONIK, Innovision, J&W, Jetway, Leadtek, Manli, Microsoft, MSI, Palit, Patriot Memory, Shuttle, Sparkle, Thermaltake, Weibu, and Zotac