Nvidia Intros Five New Mobile Graphics Cards

Nvidia Intros Five New Mobile Graphics Cards

Nvidia today announced five new graphics cards for notebooks. All of the new GeForce models are DirectX 10.1 compatible; the models are as follows:

• G 210M
• GT 230M
• GT 240M
• GTS 250M
• GTS 260M

All of the chips feature between 512MB and 1GB of fast DDR3 memory, and are built on a 40nm process. Nvidia's PhysX physics processing technology is supported on all but the G210M. All support CUDA processing, which allows the graphics card to act as a processor in some applications.

Full Story (PCMag.com)

 

According to the article, all the chips support Hybrid Power.
If this means what I think it means, this is the single most important part of the release. Especially for college brats like me who like to game but need long battery.

 

Im glad that's becoming standard now.

 

Yeah I think the need for a good compromise between performance and battery life is more in demand on laptops than pure performance so this is a good thing IMO

Wonder what laptops will feature these and how they'll perform with ATI's upcoming 40nm chips.

 

This is really good news.

Capable gaming rigs will be possible in smaller packages now.

 

I'm looking at you for the new gateway FX laptop Mr 250 or 260.

Now is the time to cross fingers and wait until late this month

 

Until programmers up the system requirements on games and card manufacturers need to compensate by pumping more juice into the GPU to increase clock speeds. :GEEK:

 

Power consumption is going to be the key driver for Nvidia going forward. Intel embedded graphics do most of the work (except for high end gaming) and consume less, nowadays.

But if Nvidia cards get to the same or better level of energy efficiency, users will consider them for their next laptop.

 

ok the text in the link quotes GDDR3 for all the chipsets but then in the pic it lists the 250M and 260M as having GDDR5?

 

Hybrid Power is available on most if not all current-gen NVIDIA notebook graphics chips. The problem is, in order to enable it, the notebook's motherboard has to have an NVIDIA mGPU embedded (such as the 9100M or 9400M) which would mean using a non-Intel chipset which would make the notebook lose the Centrino 2 branding, which many manufacturers don't want to do.

 

How soon do you think Dell, HP, and Sony will be refreshing their laptops with these gfx cards?

 

damn...the green one sure know how to make my wallet decrease

 

great post. centrino branding is really working for intel.
interesting how so many people want that centrino 2 sticker and how so few know what it actually meant.

 

After those chips, nVidia should release GTX 275M and GTX 285M as successors to the GTX 260M and the GTX 280M.

 

well the 260 should perform @ or above the 8800m gtx or 9800m gt
while having HALF the TDP

 

wow....where got the info?
thats really great

 

the specs......

 

8800M GTX & 9800M GT have substantially less TDP then GTX 260M.
If you was talking about GTS 260M, then no. I really doubt GTS 260M will outperform 9800M GT. Even if the GTS 260M will have GDDR5 memory (which I doubt, most versions will probably just come with GDDR3).

 

Specs wise, the GTS 250M GDDR5 (the GDDR5 makes up for the 128-bit bus) is identical to the 9800M GT except for two major points: it has more than half the TDP of the 9800M GT, and it uses a new core based off the GT200 core which gives it DX 10.1 support (and probably allows for better performance due to optimization on the hardware level). So, I could see the GTS 250M performing at or better than the 9800M GT/8800M GTX and the GTS 260M performing 10% better than the GTS 250M (albeit at 10W more TDP).

 

thanks lol I didn't have to type it

 

Please oh Lord let some OEM release the GT 230M/240M in MXM-II form.
Us previous-generation shlubs would love to have an Nvidia upgrade path (since the 9600M GT is speccy at best on Santa Rosa notebooks).

 

i'm interested in the naming scheme, dailytech says nvidia will use g for entry level, gt for mid-range, gts and gtx for highend. but shouldnt 5/6 mean mid-range? the tdp of the gts250/260 fit's into the upper mid-range section.

 

I'm curious how the GTS 260 will compare to the GTX 260. I'm looking at purchasing that new Asus G51GX laptop but every time I see a news article like this I feel I should wait longer.

 

the gts 260 is about the same as a 9800m gt maybe a little faster not much though

 

Wow nvidia is really pushing it i guess ATI is making them sweat.

 

ATI will really be in trouble once they come up with a naming scheme that makes even a tad bit of sense (somewhat like ATI's)

 

I dont understand, whats wrong with the naming scheme 4000 series?

 

Yeah; did you mean Nvidia in place of one of those ATI's?

 

ATI will really be in trouble once they (Nvidia) come up with a naming scheme that makes even a tad bit of sense (somewhat like ATI's)

Or to reword it, Ati will be in trouble when Nvidia finally comes up with a naming scheme that's easy to understand (like Ati has).

 

well as we can see nvidia name their products not always based on newest isnt it?