How far have mobile GPU's progressed in the last 3 years?

So I was wondering... I was trying to compare the power of my 8800m GTX SLI card to the current generation of GPU's. I remember when the 260's and 280's came out the power difference wasnt that much greater. 260m's for example were pretty much rebranded 9800m gtx's.

Are today's single noteboook GPU's more powerful than 8800m gtx's in sli these days? If so which ones?

Theres a website that lists mobile GPU's and what tier they are in. But thats not what I want to look at. I was hoping for some comparisons made by real people with real game experiences.

 

even from a desktop standpoint, a friend has a pair of 8800gts cards and can play most modern games without issues....

 

A single GTX485M is probably stronger than 8800M GTX SLI ._.

 

Here is the mobile site. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 485M SLI - Notebookcheck.net Tech

 

Moore's Law.

 

Moore's Law applies to Intel CPUs if I'm not mistaken, if anything the GPUs in laptops seem to get larger and hotter each time with each performance increment.

As already mentioned, some of the high-end single GPU solutions available now can trump SLI or Crossfire combinations of cards 1-2 generations ago.

 

From what I've seen a single 485m GTX is slightly stronger than my 9800m GTX's in SLI.

 

Moore's law doesn't just apply to Intel. It was just an observation made by the then-head of Intel, Gordon Moore, and it more accurately states that the number of transistors on a chip doubles approximately every 18 months. Which has pretty much held true. Just because they're larger and hotter doesn't mean they aren't adhering to Moore's Law, or rather, observation.

 

I stand corrected then, assuming of course both Nvidia and ATI have actually doubled their number of transistors every other new GPU iteration from 3 years ago.

 

Well Moore's law is more an observation than anything else. There's no need to think so hard about it

 

One GTX 485M will win by 40 to 50 percent.

 

Can anyone provide a specification list for the 485m , I can find the 9800m gtx and the 5870m but not 485m for some reason. And food for thought, the 5870m is roughly 2 times better then the 9800m gtx, so thats 5 years of GPU difference, of course these are 2 seperate brands but still something to compare.

GeForce 9 Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Comparison of AMD graphics processing units - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

GTX 485M 40nm 100W TDP 256-bit GDDR5 384:64:32 shader (vertex/geometry/pixel) clock speed 575MHz core 1100MHz shader 1500MHz memory (3000 effective, though that seems a bit high to me, that's what I've got down for this GPU). More info can be found on wiki or searching the forums.

 

I tried looking on wiki, could you post a link, and google brought up no results at all, not even on nvideas main page for the card.

 

Direct sauce.

 

thanks bra, now thats some nice stats, I wonder were it will be in another 5 years. Im hoping graphene is playing a part in it by 2020 personally, Or the fruits of "Unlimited Detail" are real and that just messes up graphics cards for ever. I mean if we could just have one piece of software like this guy claims we'd only need to upgrade hardware for more resolutions. He makes it all convincing but without anything else released on how he does it, it makes it all to shady.

For people who don't know Unlimited Detail Technology - Home is this software a guy developed that shows well.... unlimited detail. Defeating the purposed of more powerful video cards.

 

There was on old tomshardware article from last year that went like this:
Mobility Radeon Vs. GeForce M: The CrossFire Advantage : A Leopard That Changes Its Spots


clevo x8100
sli 5870m and 940xm cpu

compared to

desktop
ati 5850 and intel i7 920

The $4,000 clevo matched exactly with the $600 of desktop parts. Mind you an intel i7 920 and 5850 can max just about anything now in days besides crysis and metro 2033.

Now the radeon 6970m is a single desktop ati 6850 downclocked. Though the desktop 6850 is a bit slower than the desktop 5850 it is still a massive increase in performance. People with the Clevo x7200 can post easily in the 5000s in 3dmark11 performance using sli 6970s with the intel i7 960-990x.
AVADirect?s X7200: The GeForce GTX 485M SLI Mobile Graphics Giant : Better? Faster? Cheaper?

 

$4000 to $600???? Deeee-amn! :O

Mr. Mysterious

 

Then again...the laptops have distinct advantages that desktops don't have

Mr. Mysterious

 

That's why I have a decidedly midrange laptop and a desktop that can max everything out.

 

It all depends on your individual needs really. I have it the other way around because I like to be able to game and do other things where ever I wish. My desktop is an old Dual Core and I use it for web surfing, downloads, word processing etc.

 

My desktop is a P4 and i never ever want to use it. Whichever way , all you can say is wow as how GPU and CPU power has grown. I can't figure what it will become in this decade. All from the humble P3 in 2000...

 

ugh, i wish people would stop talking about Moore's Law(/observation).

in these current times, its not so much as a prediction as a goal for intel.

 

Ah, lets see, mobile gaming has waxed and waned compared to desktops. When I got my 1694WLMi it had a midrange X600 GPU, which was exactly the same chip as the desktop just downclocked. No matter it overclocked 50% anyway.

It got left behind a bit after the x800 series, came back around the HD4 series, took a dip for a while while we were stuck with the 4670/9600M, then with the 5 series and GTX460M things have come back again.