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Nvidia releases laptop GPUs
THE DESIGNER of warm GPUs, Nvidia has released seven GeForce 400M series mobile graphics cards based on its Fermi chip architecture.
The Green Goblin's laptop parts are named the GeForce GT 415M, 420M, 425M, 435M, 445M and the faster Geforce GTX 460M and 470M. They will tip up in notebooks and perhaps netbooks made by Acer, Asus, Dell, Lenovo, Samsung and Toshiba, according to Nvidia.
Nvidia said the graphics cards will provide parallel-processing capabilities to accelerate web browsing and 3D image rendering.
The move is intended to capitalise on browsers that have the ability to off-load tasks like rendering HTML5 or Flash video content to graphics processors. Nvidia claims its Fermi based mobile GeForce graphics cards are faster at processing those tasks than CPUs.
An Nvidia spokesman said that the firm's GeForce 400M will be 40 per cent faster than its earlier 300M series.
The cards support Optimus, where video rendering can be switched between the CPU and GPU on the fly. The GPU kicks in only when needed, saving laptop battery life. They also support DirectX 11 as well as Nvidia's 3D Vision technology.
Nvidia, of course, is not saying how much power these Fermi based mobile graphics cards draw. Nor did it reveal how many shader cores are in each model Geforce 400M GPU chip or how much the cards cost. µ
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Great now I have another place to cook my eggs,until the Nvidia bakes itself again!
These GPU's should come out around the same time as AMD's new 'fusion' APU's, which would be interesting to see in power draw numbers.
Releases? Releases them how? This isn't even a paper release, there is nothing on these GPUs other than the numbers, which anyone could have guessed, going by nvidias numbering scheme since the 100 series.
The big question is when will these finally be in notebooks for sale to the public.
BTW, this "release" was reported on several other sites days ago. Gotta be a little quicker with the typing and posting there.
Also, I wonder why HP apparently isn't getting any 400 series cards? Too many AMD/ATi based laptops? I was hoping for a new 400 series card in the dv8t...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3887/nvidia-400m-dx11-top-to-bottom
..but I just did a performance-per-watt test on the 480M and Mobility 5870, the 480M is only around 6% less efficient than the 5870. That's not huge. The new GPU's are based on later cores that are probably at least 6% more efficient than the GF100, putting Nvidia in AMD territory when it comes to efficiency.
But you already knew that the GF104 was more efficient than the GF100, admit it!