Possible Timeline on Nvidia refresh?

Given that there is currently a 20% sale on GPU upgrades and the addition of the Geforce GTX 580m, when do you think we will see the rest of the Nvidia line replaced by their 500 series counterparts? This month? August?

I am interested in the 570m since according to notebookcheck it will be better than the 6970 and hopefully priced similarly with optimus enabled.

 

NVidia has had a 6 month product cycle for quite a long time on its desktop graphics cards. Now that doesnt always mean a major release, sometimes they add a few more top end cards, or flesh out the offering with some more midrange or budget cards. Othertimes its a product refresh (IE: Fermi 400 series gets reworked into the Fermi 500 series)

Laptop graphics cards tend to follow after the desktop release by a few months because they are modified versions of the desktop chips.

According to NV's current roadmap (Google NVidia 2011 roadmap), the 600 series Kepler chip (successor to the Fermi) is due out this year, which would be a major release over the current 400 and 500 series Fermi based chips. But depending on when this year the Kepler is seen, we may not see a 600 series chip for laptops until early next year.

AND judging by their release cycle, we should expect Kepler by November at the latest. So yes, that likely means Kepler for laptops next year.

 

I'm anxious to know too but I doubt anyone can leak any info on this. I really like Nvidia but the 460m seems just a bit too weak for my purposes and the 580m is too expensive. The 560m was supposed to (rumored) come to Alienware in June...