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NVIDIA Unveils Lineup of GeForce 800M Series Mobile GPUs, Many With Maxwell
MojoKid writes "The power efficiency of NVIDA's Maxwell architecture make it ideal for mobile applications, so today's announcement by NVIDIA of a new top-to-bottom line-up of mobile GPUs—most of them featuring the Maxwell architecture—should come as no surprise. Though a couple of Kepler and even Fermi-based GPUs still exist in NVIDIA's new line-up, the heart of the product stack leverages Maxwell. The entry-level parts in the GeForce 800M series consist of the GeForce GT 820M, 830M, and 840M. The 820M is a Fermi-based GPU, but the 830M and 840M are new chips that leverage Maxwell. The meat of the GeForce GTX 800M series consist of Kepler-based GPUs, though Maxwell is employed in the more mainstream parts. NVIDIA is claiming the GeForce GTX 880M will be fastest mobile GPU available, but the entire GTX line-up will offer significantly higher performance then any integrated graphics solution. The GeForce GTX 860M and 850M are essentially identical to the desktop GeForce GTX 750 Ti, save for different frequencies and memory configurations. There are a number of notebooks featuring NVIDIA's GeForce 800M series GPUs coming down the pipeline from companies like Alienware, Asus, Gigabyte, Lenovo, MSI and Razer, though others are sure the follow suit. Some of the machines will be available immediately."
I invented the colour Orange. Prove me wrong.
That's the second biggest GPU I've ever seen.
I thought I would always want discrete graphics. But nowadays the majority of laptops really have no need of it, The AMD and Intel integrated offerings while not amazing are more than adequate for the vast majority of purposes. my latest 2 laptops both use integrated Intel 4th gen and handle laptop needs completely for both my work and the limited gaming I do on a laptop. I would imagine Nvidia are very uncomfortable with the way their market has been contracting over the last couple of years.
I invented the colour Orange. Prove me wrong.
The color "orange" used to be called red-yellow. The color is named after the fruit.
The fact that you claim to have invented the color yet refer to it by its adopted name instead of the original proves that you're a liar who has nothing to do with the color's invention/naming/use.
tl, i actually skimmed it a bit. the only thing I could grab on to is this:
If evolution be not true, the only explanation for the appearance of varied life on the planet is intelligent design.
This is a logical leap, and creates a flaw in the remainder of the post. If the only two choices are evolution or ID, then an argument against evolution is an argument for ID (which is what the rest of the words are about I think). but why can't there be other potential theories? I'm sure the world has thought of hundreds.
whatevs, not a good use of time.
Don't encourage the bastard.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
I refer to it by the name most recognised in today's society.
I've toasted two laptop monitors because of trying to play too many high-needs video games on them. Both of the monitors theoretically were good enough for the games by specs, but both of them burnt out within two years of when I bought them (admitedly, they were both a couple years old when I purchased them). With the first laptop, I just thought it was an age thing and didn't think enough of it, but with the second one, I realized the sad pattern. Now, I play my games with an external fan running, blowing cool air under the laptop, with the laptop on a stand to increase airflow. (I'd stick to playing games on desktops, but I'm living abroad at the moment, and a desktop takes up too much room in the suitcases)
All this being said, it seems like each new generation of laptop video card is more powerful, but I would just like to know of a mid-range card that ran really cool. That would help me much more than power.
I don't care about the architecture, how much RAM they have, how many pipelines they have, with graphics cards. Seriously, I don't know enough for it to be relevant to me. All I want to know is how fast it is (playing games), and how much it costs. Those are the only 2 things that are relevant to me. I don't care what die it was shipped on, I don't care about anything but price/performance. Some might care about power usage... I don't (within reasonable limits).
Have you tried a recent kernel? Intel's linux suport has been greatly improving and is now quite good.
Other than professionally modeling or doing video editing, or playing #D games - what use does a average person have for discrete graphics today?
Intel's refusal to properly support HDMI/DisplayPort to a TV without clipping the black levels makes their integrated GPUs worthless to me. I'm selling my newer laptop in favor of keeping my old one that has ATI graphics for this reason alone.
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Now? Intel GPU support has been excellent under Linux even back when the crusty GMA chips were all we had.
Now? Intel GPU support has been excellent under Linux even back when the crusty GMA chips were all we had.
Except for the bugs. I used Linux, including tracking the latest kernels, for over 6 years with my last laptop having an Intel 915GM.
Every version of the kernel during that time rendered occasional display glitches of one sort or another, such as a line or spray of random pixels every few weeks. Rare but not bug free.
And that's just using a terminal window. It couldn't even blit or render text with 100% reliability...
I investigated one of those bugs and it was a genuine bug in the kernel's tracking of cache flushes and command queuing.
In the process I found more bugs than I cared to count in the modesetting code.
Considering the number of people working on the Intel drivers and the time span (6 years) that was really surprising, but that's how it was.
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel"
Driver "intel"
Option "DebugWait" "true"
EndSection
Watch this Heartland Institute video
Not that you seem to care, but nvidia is precisely launching a SECOND Maxwell chip with that laptop announcement, first was GM107 in desktop GTX 750 and Ti, now in 860M, 850M : it has five "SMM" and a 128bit bus. Second is GM108 in Geforce 830M and 840M, a smaller GPU with less SMM on 64bit bus. With DDR3 memory. That gives low performance, but it's clearly a low power low budget part.
Thanks! But too late. That machine died this time last year, after 6 years of excellent service. I moved on to new hardware.
Hopefully the xorg.conf is useful to someone else.
I've just looked up what people are saying about DebugWait, and I see the font corruption - that's just one of the types of corruption I saw!
But perhaps that was the only kind left by the time my laptop died.
Just a note to others, that DebugWait doesn't fix the font corruption for everyone according to reports. But, it's reported as fixed by the time of the kernel in Ubuntu 13.04 according to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubu...
I stand by my view that Intel GPU support never quite reached "excellent" because of various long term glitches, although I'd give it a "pretty good" and still recommend Intel GPUs (as long as you don't get the PowerVR ones - very annoying that was, that surprise wrecked a job I was on). Judging by the immense number of kernel patches consistently over years, it has received a lot of support, and in most ways worked well.
Getting slightly back on topic with nVidia: Another laptop I've used has an nVidia GPU, and that's been much, much worse under Ubuntu throughout its life, than the laptop with Intel GPU. Some people say nVidia's good for them with Linux, but not this laptop. Have tried all available drivers, Nouveau, nVidia, nVidia's newer versions etc. Nothing works well, Unity3d always renders ("chugs") about 2-3 frames per second when it animates anything, which is barely usable, the GPU temperature gets very hot when it does the slightest things, and visiting any WebGL page in Firefox instantly crashes X with a segmentation fault due to a bug in OpenGL somewhere, requiring a power cycle to recover properly. So I'd still rate nVidia poorer than Intel in my personal experience of Linux on laptops :)
The color Orange is defined by a frequency range. One can allocate and name a frequency range, but never invent it. Since said color is the vibration of reflected light within that range, and light existed well before you did, you could not possibly have invented it.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
That statement is contrary to the OED so... I'm going with them.
Light never existed in the specific wavelength of orange until I commanded it.
There is no evidence to suggest otherwise so it must be true.
Dear Moron, ..
You cannot invent that which pre-exists you
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Where is your evidence that it existed before me?
You have no evidence that light of that wavelength existed yesterday.