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NVIDIA launches new digital signage driver

NVIDIA announced the launch of its new NVS 810 graphics board, which it says comes in a small package but delivers big output for multidisplay digital signage installations.

November 6, 2015

In an era of 110-inch home TVs and 100-foot-wide stadium displays, it sometimes pays to go little in order to go big, according to technology company NVIDIA Corp.

The company announced the launch of its new NVIDIA NVS 810 graphics board, which it says comes in a small package but delivers big output for multidisplay digital signage installations. Its connectivity options includeeight mini-DisplayPort 1.2 connectors. Each can drive true 4K resolution displays that are all synchronized — an industry first – according to the company.

The company said the NVS 810 joins its lineup of Quadro and NVS graphics cards and display and desktop management offerings. Driven by the company's NVIDIA Maxwell GPU architecture, the NVS 810 is designed to be a workhorse for the digital signage industry, the company said. It powers massive display walls with extreme screen resolution, enabling a more immersive visual experience, according to the announcement. The company's GPUs already power the world's largest 4K display at Churchill Downs in Kentucky and full-court projections in NBA and NHL arenas, the announcement said.

The NVS 810 card's single-slot design coupled with NVIDIA DesignWorks technologies like Mosiac and Warp & Blend is intended to make it easy to combine multiple cards into a single system to drive large signage displays cost-effectively, the company said.

Other NVIDIA-powered digital displays are actually massive signage walls made up of multiple smaller displays. They include a 330-degree wraparound screen at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. The company's GPUs also power the 6.5-meter-wide Timeline of Modern Art touchscreen at the Tate Modern art museum in London, as well as the gigantic, immersive 3D wall at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Like its stablemates, the NVS 810 also supports nView and NVWMI, among other tools, to simplify image management tasks and manage GPU installations remotely, the company said.

"The NVS 810 is a very exciting new GPU for Seneca's visual media department, particularly for digital signage and video walls," said Jami McGraw, product development manager at Seneca. "We are now able to offer customers higher output density with better performance, ultimately increasing the player-to-display ratio while simultaneously lowering installation costs."

The NVS 810 will be available starting this month through the company's  U.S. and European authorized reseller partner PNY, followed by other global OEM and channel partners in the coming months, according to the announcement.