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    New Sandy Bridge laptop

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Cloudfire, Sep 9, 2010.

  1. Cloudfire

    Cloudfire (Really odd person)

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    I was searching around and the i saw this page about a Sandy Bridge laptop

    Google Oversetter

    Nvidia GT 490....interesting :)
     
    Cloudfire, Sep 9, 2010
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    o_O very interesting... and very expensive.
     
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    Sounds like BS or they messed up the naming scheme. It says: GT490 graphics, 150SP gddr5 256BIT

    High end models are typically GTX or GTS and the current 480M and speculated 470/460M are supposed to be 256-bit/352SP and 192-bit/288 and 192SP respectively. Then again their higher end GT 445M is weird since it's also 192-bit/144SP, but still, 150SP for a 256-bit card is crippling.
     
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    GT 490 sounds like a load of crap...I'm sure this wasn't any fault by NVIDIA.
     
    Amnesiac, Sep 10, 2010
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    What does the 150 SP mean?

    And it doesnt have to be a GTS or GT card to be high end. GT 435 (128bit) and GT445 (256 bit) are both good GPUs.
    And just because it feature a I7 2720M doesnt mean it must have an insane GPU. I have the I7 Q720m and "only" the Nvidia GT240m...
     
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    150 Stream Processors. And it absolutely pales in comparison to upper Fermi.

    It was never implied that the GT 435 and the GT 445 weren't decent GPU's (in the eyes on some they would be considered lower end, mainly elitists). However, considering NVIDIA's naming scheme, which reserves the GTS and GTX badge to cards numbered x50 and above, it makes absolutely no sense. The number of the GT 490 implies something more powerful than NVIDIA's current flagship card, but the tag on it implies a lower to mid range card. See the contradiction there?
     
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    Ah ok. You are probably right. How many Stream processors does the GT 445 have?
     
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    'Stream processors' are ATi's (or AMD's) terminology. In nVidia's language these units are called CUDA cores :).

    GT490 is a load of bs, a card like this has never appeared on any roadmaps or whatever...
     
    Marecki_clf, Sep 10, 2010
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    See my post above.
     
    sgogeta4, Sep 10, 2010
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