NVIDIA gets official with GeForce 9M series of laptop GPUs

I checked all the nVidia listings for 9700m GT and above when they accidentally had it on their website but I don't remember the specific info (SPs and Gigaflops)

 

Well they are above, someone else saw them when they were up and posted it earlier in this thread. I don't know about the GTS though. I think someone mentioned it had 64 SP's.

 

Any new numbers released on any of these things?

 

hmm the GTX 200 cards have been released for the desktops now. the GTX 260 GTX 280.. wooww soo much POWAHHH.!!! but sadly i reckon we wont see these cards in the mobile format at least till next year

 

Yeah lol the 9 series has to get its showing first at least

 

so it could be 2 things?!
buying the 8800gtx sli now is a waste of money?
or waiting for the 9800gt is a waste of time?

which one... ;p

 

To be quite honest, I think waiting is pretty much always pointless. No matter what you do, there will be a new model just on the horizon. Just the way it is. Just my (really pretty much never) humble opinion, anyways.

 

yeah, its all come down if you REALLY REALLY REALLY want it right now...

 

The 8800GTX is the best bet.

Powerful, stable, performance card.

 

how high have people been able to overclock their 8800m gtx in the M570ru?

 

I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade because I am excited about the prospect of a laptop with a 9800 as anyone.

BUT I would expect about 2 month delays on the release, and then another month until the drivers are refined, and maybe another month until SLI configuration is sorted out. What the 8800s have going for them is that they're pretty rock solid, and I think the 9800s are the incremental step where they start pushing the technology -- they start improving the manufacturing process, cramming on more memory, tweaking speeds, etc. From the point of view of the consumer, that's not always a painless process... especially with the price tag thats going to incur.

I personally considered waiting for the 9800s to buy a laptop, but after looking into it a bit, especially from the historic perspective of card releases, I think 8800s are a great buy right now if someone is looking to pick up a machine. Because remember, when the 9800s are released everyone will be talking about the NEXT gen cards which I'm sure will not just be incremental, but a real innovation. And then you will just want to wait for those, etc.

 

seems to me that the biggest leap was between the 8700 and the 8800, in terms of performance and capability. The 9800 doesn't seem as revolutionary or ground breaking over previous technology as the 8800 was.

 

According to this: http://www.techfuzz.com/roadmaps/2008.aspx

The 9800GTX is just an 8800GTX core that is overclocked with more mem. So it shouldnt be anything 100% revolutionary, although it will be an improvement.

 

Still, an upgrade I guess. That`d make it less expensive I hope.

 

yep but i wouldnt expect leaps and bounds on generating less heat than the 8800m gtx

 

i thought actually that 9800gtx will produce More heat than the 8800gtx...no? ahh confused.

 

It will, based on the consideration that only PCMW and Eurocom will eventually put it in their m860TU's due to the thermal budget when Sager resellers will be staying at the 8800GTX until further notice, then yes, its going to generate more heat.

 

Yeah sorry if that was unclear, I meant that it would have more heat and would NOT produce less. Some people were speculating that it was a die shrink and that it might produce less heat and be better etc etc. But according to that source it isnt a die shrink, so it shouldnt be expected to be cooler.

 

sorry to dig up this old thread again but thought it might be helpful for those that missed the link when it was taken down but I would like to notify all that the 9800m GTX specs page is back up: http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_9800m_gtx

 

They're only offering the 8800GTX and the HD3870 now. If the 9800GTX generates more heat, how does the HD3870 compare? (since it's a different company). I'm a lot more interested in the ATI GPU now. AMD and ATI have established a better reputation in recent weeks...