Mobile Geforce 9 Series POLL

When do you guys believe the 9 series is going to be released formally, in particularly the 9 600m. We know that the high end mobile 9 series card won't be out for at least another year because the 8800m has only been on the market for a month about, but the 8600 has been around for almost a year now and i would like to hear when you guys believe the 9600m is going to come out.

 

The end of summer. Where is the poll?

 

The 8800's have only just come out. The desktop 9000 series haven't arrived yet.

I'd say next fall, early winter for the 9000 series for laptops, if the desktop versions come out this spring.

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I voted last as I really don't care. If I'll care they still wouldn't be released earlier.
The 9800M GTX (which seems like the right number to me) would be released maybe in the winter...

 

The 9800 GTX for the desktops has to come first. They aren't even ready to show that one yet. Laptop versions always trail behind the desktop version cause they take longer to perfect. Wait for the desktop line to appear first.

 

Just because the low mid range cards might be released soon, doesn't mean that the high end will be released anytime soon. The 8800m was released 1 month ago while the 8600 has been around since last may. Thats a 8 month spread. History will repeat to some extent.

 

The 8800M was released a month or so ago, but that's not the point. The point is that it has been released over a year away from the 8800 GTX desktop card.

 

Desktop version come first. Laptop versions take longer because they have to shrink the whole thing and make it work in a laptop. It took so long to get a 8800M series because they had to figure out how to not make it turn a battery into a 15 minute UPS.

The desktop versions are easy because size isn't an issue, neither is heat or power. All these things matter for laptops and you need to retain some of the power of the desktop cards. The 8700M couldn't win from a Go 7950 GTX. Only the 8800M managed to beat it.

 

I can see it coming out by summer. ATi already has the HD36XX/HD34XX coming out very soon so nvidia needs to respond. Then I will give it three-four months before they release mid-range GPUs for Montevina. I believe it will be just like the Santa Rosa release, where we had about a month of only an x3100 option before they added discrete graphics.

 

You know how nvidia always takes 2 steps forward then one step backwards, e.g. the Geforce FX. Somehow I'm not sure the 9 series will bring much more to the table than the 8 series to make it that desirable.

 

Summer, or around Montevina's release. Then the 10000 series for Nehalem!