Thursday, January 6th 2011
NVIDIA GeForce 500M Series GPUs Power Top Notebooks of 2011
NVIDIA announced the GeForce 500M series of notebook graphics processing units (GPUs), designed to power laptops featuring next-generation Intel Core CPUs (Sandy Bridge). GeForce 500M GPUs are expected to power some of the industry's best notebooks in 2011. The GPUs feature category-leading performance in media-rich HD, 3D, Web, and Gaming applications, as well as enhanced battery life, courtesy of NVIDIA Optimus technology. NVIDIA Optimus technology enables extra long battery life by switching on and off the GPU so that it runs only when needed.
Only NVIDIA GPUs support NVIDIA Optimus technology, which enables extra-long battery life by automatically switching on and off the GPU so that it runs only when needed. Introduced less than a year ago, NVIDIA Optimus is now designed into over 80% of 500M Series notebooks across leading OEMs.The new GPUs being introduced today include:
Only NVIDIA GeForce 500M GPUs offer:
Only NVIDIA GPUs support NVIDIA Optimus technology, which enables extra-long battery life by automatically switching on and off the GPU so that it runs only when needed. Introduced less than a year ago, NVIDIA Optimus is now designed into over 80% of 500M Series notebooks across leading OEMs.The new GPUs being introduced today include:
- For performance users: GeForce GT 540M, GeForce GT 550M, and GeForce GT 555M with over four times the performance of integrated graphics and twice the DirectX 11 performance of the competition.
- For mainstream users: GeForce GT 520M and GeForce GT 525M offering over twice the performance of integrated graphics.
Only NVIDIA GeForce 500M GPUs offer:
- NVIDIA 3D Vision technology support for eye-popping immersive 3D environments
- DirectX 11 support for the most visually stunning gaming experiences
- PhysX physics engine support for experiencing games with realistic physics effects
- CUDA architecture support for general purpose GPU computing applications
- NVIDIA Verde notebook drivers for system stability and optimal performance
- Support for NVIDIA 3DTV Play software for delivering 3D content from your PC to a 3D TV
21 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce 500M Series GPUs Power Top Notebooks of 2011
Attached is a resume and a list of places I have applied. Wow, 2011 is going to be the best year ever!
/sarcasm
Lower end Nvidia models only offer twice the performance of integrated video ______________ AKA brand X.
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twice/four times the power of the competitions INTEGRATED. not their discrete mobile parts.
OT: I guess we wait to see how these laptops will perform. I'm sort of interested in building a HTPC this year and have been wondering if I might be better off buying a laptop. I hope some genuine performance comparisons come out soon.
nvidia on the mobile department is a BIG FAIL!!! Again, I'm not a fb, I just read at least 10 reviews on the nets....
www.notebookcheck.net/Comparison-of-Laptop-Graphics-Cards.130.0.html
www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-460m-avadirect-x7200-sli,2799.html
an excerpt from the conclusion;www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-460M.33612.0.html
As I said, if they can just apply some of what they did to GF100 to make GF110, or even simply take the chips that bin for the lowest votlage and up the clocks a bit, Nvidia will be just fine in this mobile generation.
Our mobile workstations at work, ATI.
we still run nvidia for desktop workstations, but nvidia have shown decreasing in its driver department.
Unfortunately :(
and it seriously depends on app fourstaff but in general I can go spend $40 on a 3850 soft mod it to a Fire GL card and make any regular hd 4000 5000 6000 or nvidia gt200 or 400 or 500 look like shit lol its all semantics really when it comes to workstation performance
good example of what i mean
v8800 is $1160 - basically a 5870 with 2gb of memory with special drivers aka 1600 shaders
quadro4800 $1550 basically based off the GTX 260 192core model
now depending what 3d app your using 1 card tends to wallop the other substantially at least in workstation situations where these cards are targeted that send no regular desktop card gets anywhere close performance wise simply do to drivers. It should also be noted in that price segment when AA is added for 3d work loads the ATI/AMD card tends to decimate Nvidia soundly
www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=893&type=expert&pid=4
so again depends on what you need want and can get in that sense price wise nvidia is a full DX generation behind and loses badly at the same high end workstation price point. which is why i find it funny on these forums everyone and there mom in other threads keeps recommending Nvidia for 3d work when if i look above its not as landslide as there little mind thinks granted what do i know i use those apps daily :roll: That said this is a mobile gpu situation and in that market Nvidias Quadros are more widespread on the mobile platform then FireGL and yes in that sense they wallop AMD up down and sideways.
www.tomshardware.com/reviews/quadro-fx-4800,2258-5.html
even at the highest end of workstation cards in Maya the most dominate 3d Platform in terms of the movie industry and special effects in general the ATi cards hand nvidia there asses but if we swap to 3dsmax it changes again depends on APP should be noted that Maya 3dsMax XSI etc all are created and marketed by Autodesk but each has a different render engine under the hood displaying everything we see and like a game engine it responds to some hardware better then others.
also pay close attention to the V7700 as the 3850 could be softmodded via drivers into a v7700 and that means that $40 softmodded card can still go toe to toe with the $3000 big boys just it lacks the memory which is the only major draw back.
not trying to jump down your throat Fourstaff just figured you might find some of this interesting as i do.
but yea no one doing workstation projects would use any regular gpu for that situation a quadro 4800 is based on the GTX 280 but in that same sense in the same 3d work loads the quadro is 10x faster then the gtx 280 same applies to current gen cards as well a gtx 580 will still lose in workstation situation to a softmodded 3850 which is about the cheapest way to get a workstation gpu :toast: