Nvidia reveals Geforce Go 7950GTX

DELL has announced its first machine based on a new Geforce Go 7950 GTX mobile card.

This is the fastest mobile graphic to date. We don't think it's very mobile as it uses crippled desktop chip with a few adjustment but if you buy a 17-inch gaming notebook you can instantly forget about the battery life anyway. It still goes in machines that have the flapping displays and look like notebooks but are just bigger and heavier.

Dell XPS M1710 with Geforce Go 7950 GTX is one of the first to announce it and the British company Rock has one too. It has the whole twenty four pipelines, and is clocked at 575MHz core and 1.4 GHz memory. It has in total 512MB of memory and it can work in SLI.

It is an MXM card and manufactured at 90 nanometre with a total count of transistors to 278 millions and a total bandwidth to 44.8 GB/s.

It supports hardware H.264 playback and has a new driver that is suppose to boost 3D things up and accelerate H.264 of course. It welcomes it all from Blue-ray to HD DVD.

The power mizer power saving marchitecture is still there and of course the chip works great under Vista if you can find a driver for it. You'll find this chip in Sager, ABS, Falcon Northwest, Hypersonic, ProStar, and Voodoo in North America and Dell, Chiligreen, Cybersystem, Evesham, Multirama, Rock, and XS2 in Euroland.

The machines powered with this beast should be available shortly and I am sure that Alienware plans to see its machine in Euroland as well. ATI kind of disappeared from the high end notebook graphic - it lost its grip it seems. µ