Desktop and Notebook DX10 Cores are different

Hey all, I was just reading this article on wikipedia and it was saying that the Desktop Nvidia Geforce 8 series(G80) and the notebook series will NOT be the same since they're too power hungary and too big to fit on a 90mm process. Instead, it will be bsed on a new core called the "G81", so we'll have to see how well this stacks up.

Good luck on all your choices!

 

I wouldn't trust everything from Wikipedia, but I do believe nVidia probably has/will change the cores for power usage in relation to DX10 cards being used in notebooks.

I haven't been keeping up on graphics cards much, so they could have already done so and I'm still in the dark.

 

Hasn't that always been the case? The G70 wasn't used in notebooks either, as far as I know (and if it was, it was only in first-generation cards for huge DTR monsters)

It's standard practice (and perfectly sensible) to make a more power-conserving version of your desktop gpu.

Generally, you only need to chop a few percent off performance to halve power consumption, so it's an obvious thing to do for notebooks. Sacrifice, say, 15% performance, to cut 75% off the power consumption.

And yeah, don't assume that wikipedia is correct.