Display Compatibility Lab

The high performance computing center and silicon failure analysis lab help make NVIDIA’s GPU a reality. But what happens once the chip has been validated and the hardware is completed? At this point, NVIDIA engineers work on additional real-world testing. One such lab is NVIDIA’s Display Compatibility Lab and thermal analysis center. They run GPUs at 32 F and 104 F to test their products under extreme conditions. This is also part of the validation process to ensure that their chips are capable of running at the specified clockspeed across a wide thermal range.

In the display lab, NVIDIA validates display compatibility with what is considered to represent over 80% of monitors on the market. They have LCDs, CRTs, TVs, and even one of those 9 megapixel LCD monitors that IBM/Viewsonic/Iiyama put out a few years ago. These are the guys who ensure that NVIDIA GPUs work with your monitor seamlessly. There have been a few times where a monitor manufacturer’s EDID is out-of-spec, and this lab helps NVIDIA identify those errors and provide a patch in the next release of Forceware.


On our way to the marketing building, we stopped by NVIDIA’s IT Help Window. They’re around to answer any questions or issues the NVIDIA staff may have.