The battle between two graphic monsters, AMD’s ATI and Nvidia, is continuing. In the PC world they are already offering graphic solutions with two GPUs, but for cellular phones the battle had not yet begun — until now that is.

Nvidia is one step ahead now because of the recently announced APX 2500 cell phone applications processor. The video cell phone looks more like a digital camera, and the processor running inside at 750MHz is able to encode and decode 720p high-definition video. According to The Tech Report you can run the Quake 3 on it without any frame problems.

Engadget Mobile was apparently able to play Quake 3: Arena, and it has photos to prove it. Supposedly, the APX 2500 runs the game “like a monster” a nice way to one-up Google Android phone prototypes that only run Quake 1.

I was playing Quake 3 on my Pentium 3 which was inside the huge case but now it turns out that a graphic adapter, processor and HDD all are gathered in this small device. After some ten years the only reason that people would still buy desktop computers would be big screens as it’s the only part of a PC that really continues to follow the idea that bigger is better.

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Tags: APX 2500, Nvidia, Quake 3, video cell phones