Speculation For The Next "F" Series Latitudes?

...and when it does come out, if it is still NVidia, it will likely be some version of Quadro or NVS requiring a bit of translation to figure out which GeForce it's comparable with.

This video claims the video option is ATI, specifically an 8790M (and mentions 4800MQ as the processor)

Dell Latitude E6540 - Games (Fifa 13, Medal of Honor: Warfighter) - YouTube

No idea of the provenance of the video, but there you go!

 

The precisions use Quadro parts, the 6540 will use a GeForce branded part (if its still nVid).

 

So they're giving up on the NVS branding finally?

 

No idea what the NVS branding is supposed to mean. They're GeForce regardless.

 

GeForce and Quadro have always been the same underlying chips, basically.

Nevertheless, what the last 6 generations of Latitude have shipped with were sold as Quadro NVS or NVS, not GeForce:

D820: 512MB NVIDIA® Quadro NVS 120M TurboCache™ / 256MB NVIDIA® Quadro NVS 110M TurboCache™
D830: NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS 140M / NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS 135M
E6x00: NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS 160M5 256MB
E6x10: NVIDIA® NVS 3100M 512MB gDDR3
E6x20: NVIDIA® NVS™ 4200M (DDR3 512MB) Discrete Graphics with Optimus
E6x30: NVIDIA® NVS™ 5200M (GDDR5 1GB) Discrete Graphic with Optimus

You'll notice that the E6410/E6510 it's just "NVIDIA NVS" rather than "NVIDIA Quadro NVS" as the brand of the chip.

So what you're saying is that the current generation of business laptops (Dell and Lenovo) or at least just Dell will stop having this label, and will actually label the chip as "GeForce"? If so, cool; I'm not going to hold my breath until I see it confirmed independently.

 

No, I just meant they're the same chip underneath and I'd never heard of NVS. Looks like its just the business branding, like GeForce is for gaming and Quadro is for professional/rendering.

 

The way I understood it, the Quadro line is more for business workstation or higher end Latitudes running CAD types of software, and the drivers are different than the consumer/gaming GeForce line. They are usually a little more expensive even though the hardware is similar...you're paying extra for the "higher end" drivers.

 

You're paying more for drivers that are certified (as in extensively tested and approved by the software vendor) to work correctly with the software that you're using, there's also the use of ECC GDDR5 and a few other hardware differences on the quadros.

 

Gotcha. Yeah, it's just different branding -- although it can sometimes be a little of work to figure out which GeForce chip is closest to a given NVS or Quadro.

They do some small clock tweaks and parts binning; the NVS5200M in the current gen Latitudes is clocked slightly higher than the Geforce 525M, for example:
Comparison of Nvidia graphics processing units - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robs and Tijo are correct as far as I know on the real Quadros. I'm not sure if those differences applied to the older "Quadro NVS" models like in the E6500 and older, but the newest of them are off the market for around 3 1/2 years now replaced with just-plain NVS branding.

 

If so, than that is finally great improvement. The Radeon 87xx series are crazy efficient, would be an excellent GPU, after the crappy Nvidia NVS... We were discussing about that GPU here.