Nvidia Adds Five New Mobile GPUs

Nvidia is launching Five new Mobile GPU's. (The G210M, GT 230M, GT 240M, GTS 250M and the GTS 260M) and its stated and I quote " the company said rounds out its mobile GeForce lineup with up to twice the performance and half the power consumption of previous chips."

So what does this mean to the people that are buying high priced gaming rig laptops? Isn't it hard to upgrade the GPU in a Laptop PC or should we just wait till Dell/Alienware...ect launches computers using these GPU's? I'm just staying if your going to spend lots of cash on a decent PC then it would be nice to be at least up to date with todays newest GPU's...ect.

 

there is the spec sheet

 

Seems like Nvidia is following ATI's lead with using 128-bit and GDDR5. God Bless

 

ANyone care to translate these new 200 series GPU's and compare them to the 9000 series? E.g. is a 240M equivelent to the 9600GT? Which are equivelents, geez I hate it when they got past 9000

 

do it yourself

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...rocessing_units#GeForce_8M_.288xxxM.29_series

 

128 bit memory width? Then these are mid-range cards in the 200 series?

 

128 bit + GDDR5 = solid performance

 

mid to high

the ddr5 will give you the same performance with the 126 bit bus...

these are powerful cards they can run games out right now

 

Sounds good. And I love the TDP spec

 

I know...

I am tempted to hold off on the M17x and wait for a "light" gaming laptop

 

Impossible in some cases since many are built-in units. But I guess that's just the "built-in" obsolescence you hear tell so much about in manufacturing.

True! And I've maintained that the manufacturer who does the most to streamline this ability will be the one whose products will sell the best.

Computers are just changing too fast and no one wants to be holding the bag on a multi-thousand dollar computer when something just as fast, but a lot cheaper, comes out right after they've made their purchase.

 

check out the thread in the gaming section



4860 is nice
dual out puts capable of 2500 res
dvd upconverding 7.1 sound



annnnnnd faster then a 4850

 

^^

Yeah, but what is the TDP??

 

around the same as the gts's

its 40 nm .... it was announced in like jan or feb and should be out this summer...its being tested in some asus laptop

 

Sadly though the ASUS laptop will be AMD's puma platform, meaning no Core 2 Duo.

 

and how do you know Puma will be worse?

 

There have been some benches on the puma platform on notebookcheck CPU chart.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Turion-X2-Ultra-Notebook-Processor.10129.0.html

The top of the line CPU at 2.4 Ghz scored about 1600-1700 in 3dmark06 CPU test.

I hope I am talking about the same Puma platform.

EDIT:

Alright, I am not talking about the same thing, this is 2008 Puma platform. But still, I can't see how they will greatly improve to compete with Intel. They need to increase performance by 50% if they want to get head on head.

 

Absolutely right, most say and generally agree that for a turion to be comparable performance you have to add 300-400mz to it. So a 2.4gz Turion will be comparable in performance to a 2gz Core 2 Duo. Seems to be reasonable from benchmarks I have seen. I will look forward to when they adapt the Phenom II architecture for the Turion line, AMD has been very quiet on the mobile front. I have not seen many reviews/benchmarks on the Turion ultras with the L3 cache I will admit.