Archive for the 'Laptop Graphics Card' Category

NVIDIA unveiled today five new video cards for laptops - the mainstream GeForce G210M, the “Performance” GT 230M, GT 240M, and GTS 250M and the “High-Performance” GTS 260M.

These GPUs will fill in the gaps between the existing GTX280M, GTX260M, and GTS160M, the company says.

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AMD today unveiled the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830, the world’s first graphics processors based on 40nm technology that enables higher energy efficiency.

The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and 4830 feature 3D engines derived from the ATI Radeon HD 4800 desktop GPU series with support for DirectX 10.1. In addition, the Mobility Radeon HD 4860 supports GDDR5 memory with “nearly twice” the memory bandwidth of GDDR3.

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Nvidia announced today the GeForce GTX 280M and 260M GPUs for enthusiast laptops, as well as the GeForce GTS 160M and 150M GPUs for high-performance, sleek notebooks.

“GeForce GTX 200M and GeForce GTS 100M Series GPUs make playing the latest HD games on a portable platform a reality by delivering blistering frame rates that are up to 50% faster than the previous generation products they are replacing, all without increasing overall power consumption. Using NVIDIA SLI technology, which enables close to double the graphics performance over a single GPU, two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M GPUs can be paired to offer the fastest notebook graphics solution available today,” Nvidia’s press release says.

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AMD launched today the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 Series graphics processors for laptops, delivering “up to twice” the gaming performance of previous generation mobile GPUs.

The new chips include the high-end ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4800, balanced Mobility Radeon HD 4600, and power saving HD 4500 and HD 4300 Series, all based on 55nm production technology.

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NVIDIA announced today the new GeForce 100M graphics chip series, designed for use in mainstream laptops.

The 100M mobile GPUs currently include the GeForce G105M, the GeForce G110M, and the GeForce GT 130M.

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Nvidia announced recently the Ion platform that supports Intel’s Atom processor and includes the GeForce 9400 integrated graphics chip.

The Nvidia Ion is designed for use in netbooks, laptops, small form factor systems, and all-in-one PCs.

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Nvidia is offering an option of downloading graphics drivers for laptops direct from the company’s website for the first time.

“Users with notebooks equipped with Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) now have the added flexibility of downloading upgradeable graphics drivers directly from Nvidia.com so they can immediately take advantage of new features, improved application compatibility, and performance optimizations,” the GPU maker says.

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NVIDIA has launched the new integrated graphics chip for laptops - the GeForce 9400M.

The company says the 9400M “delivers up to 5x faster graphics performance than Intel Centrino 2.”

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Apple has confirmed that 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro models with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT video cards are affected by the recently reported GPU problem.

“If the NVIDIA graphics processor in your MacBook Pro has failed, or fails within two years of the original date of purchase, a repair will be done free of charge, even if your MacBook Pro is out of warranty,” Apple says.

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Hewlett-Packard has listed 24 laptop models that are affected by a reported Nvidia graphics card problem.

The list of potentially affected systems includes select HP Pavilion dv2000, dv6000, and dv9000 models and select HP Compaq Presario V3000 and V6000 laptops.

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Dell has released BIOS updates for select notebooks to help reduce the likelihood of recently revealed Nvidia graphics card issues.

The affected Nvidia GPUs are experiencing higher than expected failure rates causing video problems such as no video, multiple images on the screen, and random characters or lines on the display.

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NVIDIA has added the new GeForce 9700M and 9800M high-end video cards to its 9M series.

The new GPU models, designed for use in high-performance and gaming notebooks, include the GeForce 9700M GT, GeForce 9700M GTS, 9800M GTS, 9800M GT, and GeForce 9800M GTX.

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Intel today unveiled its Centrino 2 mobile platform for laptops, formerly codenamed “Montevina“.

Improvements in the latest notebook platform include better performance and longer battery life via new Intel Core 2 45-nanometer processors and Mobile Intel 45 Express chipsets, as well as faster draft 802.11n wireless. In addition, Centrino 2 with vPro-branded notebooks incorporate the new business-class manageability capabilities.

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Nvidia has uncovered a problem with some of their older laptop graphics cards that shipped in “significant quantities”, the company said Wednesday, but did not specify which series of its GPUs are affected.

The cause of the problem relates to a packaging material used with some of its chips, as well as the thermal design of some laptops, the company said.

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Dell is now offering the Dual NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX upgrade kit for existing XPS M1730 customers who have configured their notebooks with lower-performance GPUs, such as the 8700M GT.

The video card can be purchased from Dell.com, either as a stand-alone part, or with an installation service for users that don’t want to install the GPU themselves. For customers that want to do it temselves, Dell has provided a service manual, as well as a how-to video.

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