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Killer Mobile Graphics — NVIDIA's GeForce 8800M

Posted by kdawson on from the confluence-of-many-streams dept.

MojoKid writes "Today NVIDIA unveiled the much-anticipated GeForce 8800M series of mobile graphics processors. The GeForce 8800M is powered by the new G92M GPU which is built on a 65nm manufacturing process and shares a lineage with the desktop-bound G92 GPU on which NVIDIA built their GeForce 8800 GT. The 8800M series will come in two flavors, a GTX and a GTS, with different configurations of stream processors, 64 for the GTS model and 96 for the high-end GTX."

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  1. Alienware already has two 8800M GTX models by Zymergy · · Score: 5, Informative

    It appears Alienware will be using the GeForce 8800M GTX in their "m15x" and "m17x" models:
    http://www.alienware.com/intro_pages/m17x_m15x.aspx
    NVIDIA GeForce 8800M Link: http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_8M.html

  2. Re:Effects on Battery Life? by futuresheep · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you're buying a laptop because it has this graphics chip, battery life is secondary to frames per second. The people that are buying these laptops buy them because they're suited for playing games anywhere while plugged in, not traveling and off site work.

  3. Re:Passively cooled desktop cards? by vipz · · Score: 5, Informative

    I believe the 8800GT on the desktop side of things uses the same G92 chip. Sparkle has already announced a passively cooled version of that: Press Release Pictures of a passively cooled Gainward card have also been floating around the net.

  4. Re:Unlikely. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, you got it the wrong way around.

    Apple was going 100% ATI, but then ATI leaked about how they'd got the contract to the press and Jobs was furious. He really HATES secrets getting let out (I've no idea why, it seems to be industry standard practice. But if you ever happen to enter a NDA with applie then you better honour it!)

    Anyway, Apple pulled the contract and shifted every mac they could to nvidia. However, for some reason they didn't shift imac despite shifting everything else. I have a vague suspicion it is to force apple developers to always code in a GPU independent way (basically to keep nividia honest) but as an imac owner, it is very annoying.