Monday, May 3rd 2010
NVIDIA Readying GeForce 400 Series Mobile GPUs for June?
Call it a slip of the keyboard, the latest online build to order catalogue of Eurocom's performance laptops includes a new choice of graphics board, the "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M". It's not as much the entry, but details next to it that are interesting. This card, according to Eurocom, is said to be based on the Fermi architecture, is compliant with DirectX 11 (so it's not yet another re-branding), is built on the 40 nm manufacturing process, and has a power rating of [just] 100W. The card is compliant with the MXM 3.0b board standard. Eurocom sets the option's ETA to June 2010, and adds 271€ over the base configuration. In comparison, the GeForce GTX 285M SLI option (based on two G92 GPUs) asks for 339€ over the base configuration.
While by notebooks' standards 100W is on the higher side, it is astoundingly low by standards of NVIDIA's GeForce Fermi architecture, serving as a reasonable indication of NVIDIA's more energy-efficient Fermi-derived GPUs arriving to the scene in June. At the moment, unreliable sources point at NVIDIA expanding its GeForce 400 series lineup further down performance and mainstream segments, coinciding with Computex 2010 held in Taiwan.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
While by notebooks' standards 100W is on the higher side, it is astoundingly low by standards of NVIDIA's GeForce Fermi architecture, serving as a reasonable indication of NVIDIA's more energy-efficient Fermi-derived GPUs arriving to the scene in June. At the moment, unreliable sources point at NVIDIA expanding its GeForce 400 series lineup further down performance and mainstream segments, coinciding with Computex 2010 held in Taiwan.
20 Comments on NVIDIA Readying GeForce 400 Series Mobile GPUs for June?
j/k :P
what i really wonder, is how cut down they are - you know, is the 480 mobility going to be a 460 desktop part.
but i think 100 watt is still pretty high for laptop. i hope the don't melt the laptop
Also, unless these things are running somewhere around 50% the capacity of their desktop brethren, this is no better than Intel cramming the old P4 into notebooks. Two fans, two heatsinks, one processor and no GPU. Oh, and the introduction of 120W power bricks! Wonder what we'll have this time around... :laugh:
if its worst that would be sad:(
10 minute battery life lol ^^