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    nvidia 560M announced! Summer 2011

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by aznguyen316, May 30, 2011.

  1. @tilla

    @tilla Notebook Evangelist

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    No. GTX480 was just a later bombshell from NVIDIA to be the best one again. But, at which costs? :D
    Not compareable and hard to find btw.
     
    @tilla, May 31, 2011
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  2. Phinagle

    Phinagle Notebook Prophet

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    At the time of the HD5870M's release the GTX 285M was Nvidia's top product and the GTX 480M took another ~5 months to launch.

    When the GTX 460M launched in Sept. 2010 the notebooks it was put in were in direct competition with notebooks using an HD5870M. Also by Sept. most people had realized the broken Fermi of GTX 480M wasn't worth it's sky high price-tag and had moved on to rumors of the HD6000M series and GTX 580M(aka 485M).
     
    Phinagle, May 31, 2011
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  3. Kevin

    Kevin Egregious

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    On a business note:

    AMD's has taken a major misstep, by not coming up with a genuine mid-range successor, to the 5870M. They just gifted Nvidia 7 or 8 months of mainstream dominance, and all of the Mobility 5800 series momentum is lost.

    I guess they prospected that the 6800M rebrands would pick up the slack, but whoever gambled on this failed, big time.

    Thus here we are, with the 560M in every gaming notebook that matters. Nvidia basically pulled off the perfect okie-doke.

    And I'll probably be saying the same thing about Nvidia, in 2012.
     
    Kevin, May 31, 2011
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  4. eba0922

    eba0922 Notebook Consultant

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    Curious to hear why you wouldn't recommend the 6850 in the envy?
     
    eba0922, May 31, 2011
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  5. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    5850 hit the sweet spot IMO.
     
    Meaker@Sager, May 31, 2011
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  6. Phinagle

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    AMD left the rebranded cards in the positions it did as a plan to make Llano more competitive with Sandy Bridge in those segments. Every spot where an HD5000M series card was rebranded to an HD6000M card Llano competes against those card with just an IGP or an IGP+discrete in Crossfire. The wheel's still spinning on that bet so we can't say yet if the gamble will pay off.

    What's more, since the HD6800M are rebrands, that have already made AMD loads of money in the year and a half that the GPU has enjoyed against the GTX 285M and GTX 460M, prices can easily be cut to keep them competitive.
     
    Phinagle, May 31, 2011
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