Laptop Graphics Card

The latest info about video cards used in laptops, from integrated GPUs to dedicated high-end gaming graphics cards.


AMD Trinity Laptop Processors Launched, Reviewed

An AMD Trinity-powered ultra-thin laptop - the HP SleekBook.

AMD officially announced today the “Trinity” processors for laptops and desktops. Among them, for the laptop market are important the AMD A6-4455M and A10-4655M for the Ultrabook-like thin machines, as well as the A6-4400M, A8-4500M, and A10-4800M for the standard notebooks.

The new processors, also called the 2nd Generation A-Series Accelerated Processing Units, are based on the last year’s 32-nanometer production process and include the improved “Bulldozer” cores now called “Piledriver” and the Radeon HD 7000 “Northern Islands” graphics. According to AMD, the Trinity provides up to 2x performance-per-watt improvement over the previous Llano chips. The first reviews show a clear lead of the Trinity over Intel’s Ivy Bridge in terms of graphics, but the AMD’s chips lag behind the competition when it comes to the raw CPU performance.

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AMD Radeon HD 7700M, 7800M, 7900M Laptop GPUs Announced

AMD Radeon HD LogoAMD has expanded its Radeon 7000M laptop video card series with three new SKUs which populate higher-end segment.

Besides the lower-end 40-nanometer Radeon HD 7000M GPUs which are rebrands of the old 6000M line with some minor changes, AMD now offers the Radeon HD 7700M, 7800M, and 7900M based on the new 28nm production process and Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. The new DirectX 11 GPUs are aimed at use in higher-peroformance and gaming laptops. The chips bring improvements in performance and power consumption and they compete against Nvidia’s “Kepler” GeForce 600M mobile chips for the same notebook segment.

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New: Nvidia GeForce GTX 675M, 670M, 660M; GT 650M, 640M, 620M

Nvidia GeForce GTX 675M

Nvidia GeForce GTX 675M "Kepler" GPU

Nvidia has added recently new dedicated laptop video card models to the GeForce 600M line.

Besides the previously released GT 635M, GT 630M, and 610M, which are just rebrands of their respective 500M series 40-nanometer GPUs, Nvidia now also offers the GeForce GTX 675M, GTX 670M, and GTX 660M for gaming laptops, as well as the GT 650M, GT 640M, GT 640M LE, and GT 620M for performance-class systems. The new video cards bring significant upgrade, because of transition from the 40nm to 28nm production process and new “Kepler” architecture. This enables better power efficiency and less heat, allowing higher graphics peformance and longer battery life in laptops with these chips. UPDATE: The GTX 675M and 670M are still 40nm chips. Thanks Jeremy Lee for pointing this out.

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Intel HD 4000 Graphics 50% Faster than HD 3000 in Expreview’s Benchmark

Intel's Mooly Eden holds Ivy Bridge wafer.

According to a benchmark done by Expreview, the Intel HD 4000 graphics processors built into the next generation Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs is about 50 percent on average faster than the HD 3000 in current Sandy Brdige counterparts.

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Nvidia GeForce GT 525M vs Intel HD 3000 Benchmark

We have finished a couple of benchmarks on a Dell Inspiron 17R laptop with the Nvidia GeForce GT 525M dedicated video card and Intel’s Core i3-2330M processor.

The notebook has both the 128-bit GT 525M 1GB GPU for more intensive graphics tasks and the Intel HD 3000 integrated graphics on the CPU for better power efficiency, so it’s pretty handy for comparison of these two. 3D Mark Vantage, PC Mark Vantage, and Crysis benchmarks we did on the system can help you decide if the Nvidia GeForce GT 525M is worth extra money when choosing between a more expensive laptop configuration with the 525M and a cheaper one with integrated Intel HD only.

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Rumor: Nvidia Discrete Graphics for Ultrabooks Coming

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Nvidia

According to Fudzilla’s sources, Nvidia prepares discrete graphics processors specially designed for ultra-thin laptops, also known as ultrabooks.

The ultrabook-use Nvidia graphics chips from their upcoming Kepler family will have low power consumption and thermal dissipation in order to meet requirements of thin laptop designs, but there are no specs or details available at the time of this writing.

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CoD: Modern Warfare 3, Crysis 2, Battlefield 3, Batman: AC on Nvidia GeForce GTX 580M

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Crysis 2, Battlefield 3, and Batman: Arkham City are currently among the most popular 3D game titles for PCs. Youtube user SimonAllanSAS has uploaded gameplays of these titles, all made on a Clevo P170HM3 laptop with an overclocked Nvidia GeForce GTX 580M, the fastest single video card for notebooks.

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MSI GUS II External Graphics for Laptops Showcased

MSI GUS II

MSI GUS II External GPU Solution (by The Verge)

MSI has showcased at the 2012 CES Show the GUS II, an external graphics card enclosure prototype, which adds dedicated desktop-class GPU power to laptops with a Thunderbolt port.

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Nvidia Outs GeForce GT 635M, GT 630M, 610M GPUs

Besides AMD, Nvidia has announced the new graphics processors for notebooks – the GeForce GT 635M, GT 630M and 610M.

These GPUs are just rebrands of the GeForce GT 550M, GT 540M, 520M, respectively, so there’s no peformace increase, nor new architecuture. The GT 635M, GT 630M and 610M are based on the 40-nanometer production process, just like the 500M series.

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AMD Radeon HD 7400M, 7500M, 7600M Laptop GPUs Launched

AMD has released the Radeon HD 7400M, 7500M, and 7600M discrete laptop video cards. Although the GPUs belong to the new Radeon HD 7000M series, they use the same architecture and 40-nanometer production technology as the HD 6000 series.

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AMD E-450 & AMD Radeon HD 6320 Review with Benchmarks

The AMD E-450 is a refresh of the E-350 Fusion Accelerated Processing Unit, both aimed at cheap full-size notebooks, netbooks, and small form factor desktop computers.

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AMD Radeon HD 6990M Notebook GPU Released

Here’s yet another World’s fastest laptop GPU announcement: AMD has released the Radeon HD 6990M which is “up to 25% faster than any other announced notebook enthusiast GPU”.

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 580M Laptop Video Card Announced, Benchmarked

Nvidia has launched the long awaited GeForce GTX 580M top-of-the-line gaming video card for laptops.

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Leak: AMD to Release C-60 Turbo APU

AMDAccording to leaked specifications, Advanced Micro Devices will release the netbook- and low-end laptop-use AMD C-60 Accelerated Processing Unit which will add Turbo technology to the APU line.

The C-60 has dual CPU cores clocked at 1GHz by default, but the speed on one of the cores at the time can be increased to 1.33GHz using Turbo, depending on usage. The CPU shares the same die with the new AMD Radeon HD 6290 graphics with 276MHz and 400MHz clock speeds in standard and Turbo mode, respectively. Thermal Design Power of the C-60 remained at the C series standard 9W.

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Nvidia Launches Quadro 1000M, 2000M, 3000M, 4000M, 5010M GPUs

NVIDIA QuadroNvidia has launched new mobile workstation-class Quadro video cards, including the mid-range Quadro 1000M and 2000M, high-end 3000M and 4000M, and the ultra-high-end 5010M.

These Nvidia Fermi architecture-based laptop GPUs feature “twice the number of CUDA cores and twice the graphics memory over previous generation”, and Nvidia Optimus switchable graphics technology.

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