NVIDIA Releases GeForce 300M Laptop GPU Series

January 12th, 2010

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.

The 300M GPUs support GPU-accelerated video and image processing applications built with Microsoft’s new DirectCompute API, as well as older technologies such as DirectX 10, CUDA, PhysX, and PureVideo. The GeForce GTS 360M and GTS 350M additionally support two-way SLI.

According to the GPU specifications, the most of the GeForce 300M chips have the same or similar 3D graphics performance as their 200M Series counterparts.

NVIDIA GeForce 300M	Cores	Performance (Gigaflops)
High Performance (128-bit)
GTS 360M	96	413
GTS 260M	96	396
GTS 350M	96	360
GTS 250M	96	360
Performance (128-bit)
GT 335M	72	233
GT 330M	48	182
GT 240M	48	174
GT 230M	48	158
GT 325M	48	142
Mainstream (64-bit)
GT 310M	16	73
GT 210M	16	72
GT 305M	16	55

We have found two notebook models in the US market that feature the GeForce 300M GPUs. These are the Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q875, and X505-Q870, both with the GTS 360M.

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