NVIDIA GeForce 8M Series GPUs Released

NVIDIA has released the GeForce 8M Series graphics processors for laptops, “making ultra-realistic DirectX10 3D games and vivid HD video playback on notebook PCs a reality”.

Along with support for Microsoft’s DirectX 10, the new features of the GeForce 8M GPUS are unified architecture delivering “up to 2x the performance of previous generation GPUs”, PureVideo HD video processing engine for playback of high definition content, and NVIDIA PowerMizer technology for balance of notebook’s battery life and performance.

The new NVIDIA 8M Series GPUs are currently available in GeForce 8600M and GeForce 8400M models. The top PC makers, such as HP, Toshiba, Acer, Samsung, and ASUS, have already announced the notebooks with these graphics processors.

The first DirectX 10 games are expected to be released this summer.

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