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NVIDIA Launches Five New Mobile GPUs

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the too-many-options dept.

Engadget is reporting that NVIDIA has released five new mobile GPUs to fill some imagined gap in the 200M series lineup. These new chips supposedly double the performance and halve the power consumption of the older chips, but still no word on why they think we need eight different GPU options. "The cards are SLI, HybridPower, CUDA, Windows 7 and DirectX 10.1 compatible, and all support PhysX other than the low-end G210M. Of course, with integrated graphics like the 9400M starting to obviate discrete graphics in the mid range -- even including Apple's latest low-end 15-inch MacBook Pro -- we're not sure what we'll do with eight different GPU options, but we suppose NVIDIA's yet-to-be-announced price sheet for these cards will make it all clear in time."

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  1. Finally by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Finally, news about low-power GPUs with decent capabilities.

    I'm sure hardcore gamers prefer bleeding edge hardware news, but for the rest of us, heat dissipation and power requirements are beginning to be a nuisance more than anything else. I'm sure 99% of computer users would be fine with a dual-core Atom CPU and one of those new GPUs.

    1. Re:Finally by Hurricane78 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      The Atom is a wonderfully efficient chip

      No, it's not. It's a wonderfully feature-less chip, with everything possible off-loaded into the northbridge. Which is why the NB looks like the real CPU, when you look at the board.

      If you want wonderful efficiency, look at those new smartbooks that were show in a recent /. article. They take 1-2 watts, and play full-hd and hardware accelerated flash.
      I rather stack 10 of those, than buying one Atom chip (with the same power usage).

      I just wish someone would offer bare-bones ARM modules that you could take as much as you wanted of, and stick them together to form a desktop computer. maybe even have a special module that you could take out as a smartbook. Throw in some GPUs, and maybe an SPU (sound), or whatever you like.
      Of course Windows would -- as usual -- just choke and die, but Windows and Smartbooks do not fit anyway (yet). It's all Linux in its many forms (including Android).

      I for one, would love to have a desktop system, that is essentially a more tightly integrated blade rack with a fast backbone bus.

      --
      Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
  2. These are actually a new architecture of sorts by Vigile · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This piece has more commentary on the release as opposed to regurgitating specs: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=732

    It looks like this new architecture is going to be quite different than the desktop counterpart.

  3. Suicidal NVIDIA GPUs by madnis · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So has NVIDIA fixed their bump-material problem, or can I expect one of these GPUs to croak after 6 months like the my laptop's 8400M did?