Nvidia has launched the GeForce GT 540M, the company’s first GeForce 500M laptop graphics series GPU.
According to Nvidia, the mid-range GeForce GT 540M “delivers a significant increase in fill-rate and memory bandwidth”, while staying in the power envelope of the previous generation chips. The laptop video card is based on 40nm production process and has 96 processor cores and a 128-bit memory interface supporting GDDR5 and DDR3.
AMD has launched the AMD Radeon HD 6000M Series graphics chips for laptops, initially including the 6300M and 6500M mobile video cards.
The lower end Radeon HD 6300M GPUs have 80 stream processing units, 8 texture units, 16 Z/Stencil ROP units, 4 color ROP units, and support for DDR3 memory, while the higher-performance Radeon HD 6500M chips have 400 SPUs, 20 TUs, 20 Z/S ROPs, 8 color ROPs, and support for both DDR3 and GDDR5 memory.
AMD has demonstrated the low-power Fusion APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) at the IFA Show in Berlin.
The Fusion APUs pack dual low-power CPU cores codenamed “Bobcat”, a graphics processor, and an Unified Video Decoder onto a single small-sized die.
Nvidia has officially released the GeForce 400M Series dedicated video cards for laptops.
Besides the recently launched GeForce GTX 480M, which is the top of the line model, the 40nm “Fermi” architecture-based 400M series now includes the hgih-performance GTX 470M and GTX 460M, as well as mid-range GT 445M, GT 435M, GT 425M, GT 420M and GT 415M.
Nvidia has released the Quadro 5000M, a new video card for mobile workstations.
Based on “Fermi” architecture, the Quadro 5000M has 2GB of GDDR5 memory, a 256-bit memory interface, and 320 CUDA cores. It’s “the world’s first professional graphics solution with Error Correction Codes (ECC) memory” for the highest computing accuracy.
At Computex 2010, AMD has demonstrated the Fusion Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) that combine CPU, GPU, video processing and other capabilities in a single die.
The APUs support DirectX 11 gaming and HD video content.
Nvidia has released the GeForce GTX 480M, the company’s top-of-the-line video card for laptops.
Advertised as “the fastest notebook GPU”, the GeForce GTX 480M is Nvidia’s first DirectX 11-capable graphics chip and includes 352 CUDA cores, a 256-bit memory interface, and 850MHz and 1200MHz processor and memory clock speed, respectively.
NVIDIA today officially unveiled the second generation ION platform for Intel Atom-based netbooks and small form factor desktops.
The NVIDIA ION 2 chipset provides netbooks with “10 times the graphics performance of standard netbooks” and “up to 10 hours of battery life”.
NVIDIA has announced Optimus technology, a switchable graphics solution for laptops combining NVIDIA’s dedicated and Intel’s integrated GPUs on-the-fly.
Optimus “chooses the best graphics processor for running a given application and automatically routes the workload to either an NVIDIA discrete GPU or Intel integrated graphics – delivering great performance while also providing great battery life”.
NVIDIA has released the first GeForce 300M Series graphics processors for notebooks.
The new lineup includes the GeForce GTS 360M and GTS 350M in the “High Performance” category, the “Performance” GeForce GT 335M, GT 330M, and GT 325M, and the GeForce 310M and 305M “Mainstream” GPUs. Currently, there are no 300M Series models in NVIDIA’s “Enthusiast” and “Value” categories.
AMD has launched the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series graphics processors for laptop PCs.
The Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series (including the top-of-the-line HD 5870), is made for gaming, while the HD 5700 and HD 5600 are mainstream GPUs. The HD 5400 is a lower-end graphics processor with low power consumption.
Several websites have reviewed an Asus Eee PC netbook with Intel’s recently released Atom N450 Pine Trail M platform.
The conclusion is that the new platform with the Intel Atom N450 main processor, the GMA 3150 graphics, and the memory controller on a single die delivers a better power efficiency and has minor performance benchmark differences when compared to the previous Atom netbooks with the N270/N280 CPUs and the GMA 950 graphics.
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.
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.
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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