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NVIDIA Announces New Line of Fermi-Based Mobile Chips
MojoKid writes "NVIDIA has announced an entire line-up of Fermi-based GeForce GT and GTX 400M mobile GPUs, seven in total, and revealed a number of notebook design wins from major OEMs. Like their desktop-targeted counterparts, the mobile GeForce GT and GTX 400M series GPUs make use of technology from NVIDIA's desktop architecture, which debuted in the GF100 GPU at the heart of the company's flagship GeForce GTX 480. GeForce GT and GTX 400M series GPUs are DirectX 11 compatible and support all of NVIDIA's 'Graphics Plus' features, including PhysX, 3D Vision, CUDA, Verde drivers, 3DTV Play and Optimus dynamic switching technology. The GeForce GTX 470M and GTX 460M are the most powerful of the group and target enthusiasts and gamers, while the GeForce GT 445M, GT 435M, GT 425M, GT 420M and GT 415M target performance-conscious, but more mainstream consumers."
But how do they perform?
I'm assuming that these are based on the GF104 and not the "Burn your house to the ground" GF100 series. The article doesn't say.
I think there are more product names than words in that summary. What was this all about again?
Alex, I'll take keybindings not used by Emacs for $400....
Every third word is a number, and the story lists a long string of proprietary "technologies" and marketspeak. The story is also peppered with no less than five marketing images from Nvidia.
99% of laptops do not have a cooling solution robust enough to handle a dual core CPU and a proper graphics card going full throttle.
I point a fan at my laptop whenever I have to do anything intensive so that it won't throttle back or just shut down.
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In Elite is a notorious Nvidia troll that stalks ATI websties and makes ridiculous claims about Nvidia. He will be up all night saying how l33t Nvidia is now despite having Intel Integrated graphics on his computer.
Probably way better than their only remaining serious rival who are busy with removing a World known brand instead of fixing never ending Windows driver issues or the horrible image resulting from them.
Too cryptic? Well, it is ATI I talk about. I was thinking "oh these guys never satisfy?" while reading never ending whining (!) from their customers until I actually had to install ATI Windows drivers, control centre to a laptop and see they even linked to Microsoft .NET 2.0. Yes, 2.0.
They also seem to abandon actually working, still sold GPUs. With such rivals and Intel who tries childish tricks like excluding Geforce 2 introduced technologies (hardware T&L on i950, missing), NVidia is free to do/release anything. It will sure sell well.
I use G4 Mac to read your comment and reply, on Safari. It is like 4 hours of battery on laptop remaining. How? Apple, while still old good Apple, put a real, designed to accelerate 2D/3D GPU to the laptop. GeForce FX Go5200. That is some old GPU but I am sure it uses considerably less power than a integrated intel junk.
Newer nvidia stuff, with seperated/optimized mobile drivers does considerably better. That is part of magic on 13watt idling Mac minis who have significant issues even compared to a large laptop.
With Windows 7, a modern x.org based Linux&BSD and OS X, having a good GPU optimized for job is way more than "500 fps gaming".
But could you at least talk a bit about what "fermi" actually is?
Or maybe blow the dust bunnies out.
Seriously, it should be no problem for a performance laptop to handle intense work. I have an MSI GX640 which has an i5 and a 5850M and it cools itself fine. I can play high end games and life is good. The fan spins up, of course, but the laptop has no failures.
If yours can't handle its hardware there's one of three things going on:
1) You upgraded it after the fact to hardware beyond it can handle. Don't do that, read up on the thermal limits and stay in them.
2) It is full of junk and can't cool properly. Clean it out. In any environment, but particularly in dusty ones, you need to clean your cooling system to keep it working well.
3) Your laptop is a crap design, get a better one.
I don't have a great deal of laptop experience, a desktop is my main system, but all the laptops I've had could cool themselves without a problem.
Seriously, why the fuck can't I upgrade the graphical capabilities of a laptop with a simple pcmcia solution? Y'know what that bullshit is? It's bullshit.
That is all there really is to know. It is their latest generation of graphics hardware, and fully supports the most current standards.
Because speed.
I mean so they can make a "modern" board for a desktop machine that doesn't require 2 6-pin connectors and draw 200 watts.
Did you know 80 to 90% of the moderators on slashdot wouldn't recognize a troll even if one dragged them under a bridge.
99% of laptops do not have a cooling solution robust enough to handle a dual core CPU and a proper graphics card going full throttle. I point a fan at my laptop whenever I have to do anything intensive so that it won't throttle back or just shut down.
Maybe the "apartment" in your mom's basement might be too warm to surf n0rp "full throttle"?
Will these be openGL 4.0 spec'd also?
Wll these be Kernel Mode Setting spec'd also?
'Cause the PCMCIA interface spec can't support the data transfer rates required. We'd need a newly engineered solution. Frankly I don't expect the notebook form factor, let alone netbooks, tablets and smartphones to continue in their current form factors. Research in materials science is yielding ever more interesting materials to work with to come up with more desirable form factors. I can somewhat see where it will end up but expect a rapid turnover in approaches for the next decade.
"[I]t is a wise man who admits the limits of his knowledge or skill, and that pretending either causes harm." --Terry Go
That's about the only interesting thing about them.
Laptops don't used the PCMCIA interface for internal graphics solutions. Besides, the little expansion slots on the sides of laptops have used PCIe for ages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express_card
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By mobile do they mean 'intended for notebooks' or 'generate enough heat that the explosions will propel them over great distances'?
I never said laptops used PCMCIA for graphics and asserted that it would be impossible to try. As for using PCIe, none of the ones around here do and I've worked on more the few of late. So... it's news to me. So noted and thanks!
"[I]t is a wise man who admits the limits of his knowledge or skill, and that pretending either causes harm." --Terry Go