Wednesday, December 7th 2011
NVIDIA Quietly Intros First GeForce 600M graphics cards
Without so much of a stale press release, NVIDIA has today outed its very first GeForce 600M series mobile graphics cards. Unfortunately, there's not much to get excited about as the cards in question, named GeForce GT 635M, GT 630M and 610M, are based on the 40nm GPUs already used by the GeForce 500M line.
We don't want to point any fingers but the fact is the GeForce GT 635M, GT 630M and 610M strike an undeniable resemblance to the GeForce GT 555M/550M, GT 540M and GT 520M, respectively. No worries, AMD has done something similar with the first few cards in the Radeon HD 7000M series.
The GeForce GT 635M comes in two versions, one with 144 CUDA Cores (clocked at 1350 MHz) and a 192-bit memory interface and another with 96 Cores (@ 1506 MHz) and a 128-bit interface , while the GT 630M has 96 Cores (set to 1344 MHz) and a 128-bit interface, whereas the GeForce 610M settles for 48 Cores (@ up to 1800 MHz) and a 64-bit interface.
All three cards are 3D Vision ready and feature support for DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.1, CUDA, PhysX, Optimus, OpenCL, and HDMI 1.4. Laptops equipped with these 'new' GeForce models are expected in 2012.
We don't want to point any fingers but the fact is the GeForce GT 635M, GT 630M and 610M strike an undeniable resemblance to the GeForce GT 555M/550M, GT 540M and GT 520M, respectively. No worries, AMD has done something similar with the first few cards in the Radeon HD 7000M series.
25 Comments on NVIDIA Quietly Intros First GeForce 600M graphics cards
For Nvidia, well they have nothing anytime soon that’s emerging, while AMD sees it as appeasement that works in their favor till Trinity comes out. Who do you think caved first to OEM pressures?
yes thats it Case, and in terms of OEM's that push this crap through, the main perpetrators are Dell and HP
They will now have room to add a 655, 650, etc. when they are ready (whatever that means).
This is why I don’t even try to care what happens on the mobile discrete side.
all late as usual, nvidia.
In short, quite a few. The GTX580M is even faster than quite a few more modern respectable discrete cards, such as the 9800GX2, GTX280, GTX460 and GTX550Ti.
That's asking an awful lot of power out of an awful small space, with few watts available. Would be quite impressed if i saw some benchies.
A paper launch of something at 28nm that can't even be bought for months would be better than this :(
It makes quite a bit of sense.
and what sense it makes?
The better deal when you really know what's... what, is the previous sticker stuff that will be the best value. :toast:
This bunch both AMD and NV is targeted at Apple laptops and Dell / Asus / .... types.
Apparently the 660m~680m would be a fairly decent mGPU upgrade, same for AMD as they are targeting 2x 580m to 1.3x 680m in performance. Or 690m if ever released would be 2x 580m, if they can actually deliver this is debatable for both AMD and NV.
Decent gaming mGPu's availability is expected same time as mobile Ivy-Bridge March/April 2012.