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NVidia NV17M Mobile GPU Preview
Mathew Solnik writes: "A year ago nVidia set the laptop world on fire with the release of the GeForce2 Go mobile graphics chipset. Today they push the envelope with the release of the NV17M mobile graphics chipset. Offering unmatched performance in 3D gaming applications, the NV17M promises to put nVidia at the forefront of high end graphics solutions for mobile systems. This GPU is much faster then the Geforce2 Go and is more or less the Geforce3 for laptops. Check out AMDZone for the preview." Pretty incredible how powerful laptops are, even given their lag behind desktop performance. This is far more powerful than any video card I've ever owned.
Not so much for gaming but in my last job I talked to many people who wanted "awesome gfx" on their laptops to do presentations using high end (http://www.ptc.com) cad/cam packages. It was just easier in many cases for them to do the presentation on a laptop. That is one of the business reasons for this.
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I just don't see a reason, honestly, for having 'awesome gfx' in a laptop.
Maybe not all the time but...
I've stopped using my desktop machines and moved myself over fulltime to my laptop and docking stations. (I work in three different locations, and it was too much work keeping all three computers in sync with each other.)
I'm pleased with all that my laptop lets me do - but to tell the truth, the graphics are pretty slow. I usually play 2-D games (like Age of Empires) and I miss my Matrox card on my desktop while I watch the screen "chunk" by on the laptop.
So... it would be nice to have the power for gaming available if I wanted to use it.
But I still probably just going to buy a console after Christmas. (I'm waiting to see which one emerges as the favorite (hoping for Gamecube...))
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The review/preview makes a big deal about how most laptop DVD players drain the batteries before the movie is entirely over, or very shortly after. Using a dedicated graphics chip to render the animation should improve the battery life by quite a bit.
ATI Unveils MOBILITY FIRE GL 7800
World's fastest and most powerful mobile workstation GPU designed for 3D animation and CAD/CAM
Read it here: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/011112/122494_1.html
That ain't eDRAM. eDRAM the memory and core logic is located inside the same chip. Key advantage being that you can use ultra-wide memory-buses, giving you loads of bandwidth.
What NVIDIA is doing here is simply to put the memory-chip in to the same die as the core is, but they are not one and the same chip, they seem to be separate. And the memory-bus is your typical 128bit-variety.
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