next line of video cards?

Does anyone know the next line of video cards after the 9000 series? And when are notebooks going to start having them?

 

For Nvidia i should br the 260 and 280 etc

 

Supposedly, 2009 will be a year for nVidia to release cards ridiculously faster than what we have now w/ GDDR5 memory. GPUs are becoming computers themselves .

 

More importantly, when will the ATI 4000 series cards come in mobile form?

 

The 260 and 280 won't be in notebooks for quite a while, unless there's some breakthrough in the Nvidia laboratory.

The MSI GT725 is listed with the 4850, but... it's DDR2.

 

ATI 4XXX and NVIDIAs ultra high-end cards are very...thick. As of now nothing short of fat 17" will hold them. If it's a 15", its a very fat & ugly laptop I promise you. Not exactly "mobile". I give it a couple of months before we begin to see 9800GX2 power into laptops.

 

They are already in mobile form. Nobody has added them to their notebook lineups yet except Alienware.

 

Yeah the AMD / ATI 48XX is in some laptops already, I think the Alienware m17 can have Crossfire

 

OCZ Whitebook/Alienware m17 only has 3870s, not yet the 4800 series.

 

Exactly.

I believe the 4000 series will be easier to implement into a mobile form than the GTX series. Then again, I think the ultimate performance/watt was probably the 3000 series, which is why I think they are in the Alienware 17x right now.

 

^^ wut Kev said.

The Arima W840 DI (aka. OCZ Whitebook, K|N Nagamaki, AW M17, etc...) only has ATI 3870's ..... NOT 4xxx.

Get your facts straight people.

 

Not anytime soon, remember that we just got the 9000 series and the hd4000 just started shipping to manufacturers,,, Nvidia don't have any interest in bringing the gtx to notebooks currently as there is virtually no competition....

 

ok so I just want to confirm: If I buy the Asus G50VT- X1 for 1099$ this sunday will it be worth it or should I wait until christmas and get a better deal/laptop? NOTE: Ive been waiting 4 years saving up for a laptop so if I mess up it will take a long time before I forgive myself.

 

the G50VT is one of the BEST deals available id say go for it and dont think twice Asus has top notch build quality also, good luck

 

So if I buy this notebook there will be no better one at christmas time? Im just making sure 100%.

 

I'm going to say GTX 260ish performance when nVidia moves to the 40nm process in 2009, and not to expect anything till Q1 '09. The 9800M GTX is awesome, but overpriced. Would like a bit better performance than what it has to offer, and I think there is thermally a lot of room to support it, especially now that nVidia is manufacturing 55nm. I would not be surprised to see a 9850 GTX or the like, that uses the full 128 shaders and utilizes the 55nm fab and a higher clock speed.

 

I wouldn't take that bet.

 

Go check out that thread but basically next year, it'll be a cominbation of a re-released 9800M GT (and hopefully 9800M GTX) as die shrunk versions to decrease the heat. That's in addition to the eventual GT200 series currently for desktops eventually becoming a GTM (mobile) series