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    5xxM chips on the way

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by hakira, Dec 6, 2010.

  1. hakira

    hakira <3 xkcd

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    NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M refreshes mobile graphics midrange, starts up 500M series -- Engadget

    Good ol NV rebadging. I have to wonder when they will put out the 560 or 570 (or 580?), and why the rebadging was so quick this go around. Fermi mobile hasn't even been out for 6 months, and several cards in the lineup are barely 3 months old...
     
    hakira, Dec 6, 2010
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    Leg up on the ATI 6000 series.
     
    Trottel, Dec 6, 2010
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    *yawn* Increase in performance is nowhere near the jump from 3xxM to 4xxM. Not worth waiting for, unless you're already planning to wait.
     
    a4500435, Dec 6, 2010
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    i sure am waitin! :D

    hope to see some benches pop up some time soon.
     
    houstoned, Dec 6, 2010
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    Most of the improvements in the "Fermi done right" GF104/6/8 were already in all 4xxM but the 480M anyway... and clocks is all they mention in the press release anyway.

    But let's put it in perspective: any performance increase is better than the 8->9->2->3 series where many rebadges offered zero% increase in performance.
     
    bennyg, Dec 6, 2010
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    Rebadging was so quick because even after that long delay Fermi wasn't really ready for production. Fermi required another spin on through TSMC to work the kinks out of the silicon and get full chip yields up.
     
    Phinagle, Dec 6, 2010
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    Does this come with a throttler as well? I want to see some benches and how it compares with the eventual AMD 6300 / 6500M.

    Also anyone think that this move smacks of desperation? I mean just before AMD releases their cards, boom nvidia steals the thunder...
     
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    The 6300M series is a 5400 rebrand and the 6500M series is a rebrand of the 5600/5700 series.

    And lower-end cards shouldn't have any need for a throttler, or mobile cards in general for that matter.
     
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    Clocks are better (672 core/ 900 mem) than the GT435M but with DDR3 its still going to bottlenecked by low memory bandwidth. Really, is GDDR5 a taboo for laptops?

    BTW I'm not really impressed by mobile Fermi...GT420M has twice the shaders than GT330M but it's only still just as fast.
     
    strangerguy, Dec 6, 2010
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    That's because they use a totally different architecture. Just because certain numbers are lower or higher, doesn't mean a thing if you don't take that into account.
     
    sgogeta4, Dec 6, 2010
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    These games are silly. I hope consumers punish Nvidia some more for this.

    445m level performance in the 5-series should be rated LOWER. I would expect the 520m to perform like the 330m.

    The 320m is faster than an 8600m GT.

    Why even use the number scale?
     
    lewdvig, Dec 6, 2010
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    Why even use the number scale?

    Because it sells.

    If you throw some big numbers out there people will want to buy.
     
    Hungry Man, Dec 7, 2010
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    The GT 555M could prove interesting if it's put to work on the 14-15.4" category. Maybe even a 13" Acer xD.
    The other ones seem disappointing for a new generation of GPUs.

    Cheers!
     
    Arondel, Dec 7, 2010
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    Yeah. AMD needs to be punished too. They're such con artists.

    Wait that doesn't leave anyone to buy cards from. Now I'm confused.


    Seriously, though, this is a result of the early launch. Keep in mind that most, if not all of the 500M cards will be rebrands, so that might be why the numbers are based on performance relative to the 400M cards. And NVidia's naming was always ridiculously confusing. The 400M series was the first to make perfect sense.
     
    City Pig, Dec 7, 2010
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