NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX GPU Comes to Notebooks

[dinos22]

this was probably the nicest product i've seen at Nvidia Editor's Day Event

scoring ~10K 3DMARK06 on a laptop is just crazy good heheh

http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1195471131866.html

World’s Fastest Notebook GPU Brings DirectX 10 HD Gaming to Mobile Gamers

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Rick Allen
NVIDIA Corporation
(408) 566-6431
riallen@nvidia.com

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A new era of games such as Crysis and Unreal Tournament 3 use advanced GPU-rendered visual effects to deliver unprecendented levels of realism.

"For gamers wanting to experience the advanced visual realism of Crysis the new GeForce 8800M powered machines are the ones to get." - Cervat Yerli, CEO of Crytek

The NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX, the world’s fastest notebook GPU, is designed to give gamers the best visual experience for new generation PC games such as Crysis and Unreal Tournament.

SANTA CLARA, CA—November 19, 2007—This holiday season a new era of PC games, featuring advanced new graphics effects, will immerse gamers in cinematic realism like never before. Games like Crysis, Unreal Tournament 3, and Call of Duty 4 are sure bets to be at the top of the holiday gift list for the significant gamer in your life. And to supply the best visual experience when playing these new games, a new generation of notebook PCs equipped with ultra-modern GPUs (graphics processing units), such as the just-released GeForce® 8800M notebook GPUs from NVIDIA, will soon be available for order from notebook makers.

The new NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX and GeForce 8800M GTS score the highest on industry-standard benchmarks for GPUs in their class and are the perfect complement for the new generation of DirectX 10 games for the gamer on the go.

"I am absolutely amazed by the sheer performance of the new GeForce 8800M GTX-powered notebooks," said Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games, creators of the game Unreal Tournament 3 and the Unreal Engine 3 game engine. "These next-gen machines run Unreal Tournament 3 fantastically even at HD resolutions of 1920x1200. I'm ordering one!"

Delivering the best performance for both DirectX 10 and DirectX 9, the GeForce 8800M GTX and GeForce 8800M GTS GPUs fill the top enthusiast GPU product positions in the popular NVIDIA GeForce 8M Series product line, continuing the company’s five generations of performance leadership in notebook GPUs. The new GPUs feature NVIDIA’s new, extremely efficient, unified architecture that delivers astounding levels of performance compared to previous generation GPUs.

"With the new GeForce GPUs, NVIDIA is bringing gamers the ultimate gaming experience available on a notebook," said Cervat Yerli, CEO of Crytek. "For gamers wanting to experience the advanced visual realism of Crysis the new GeForce 8800M powered machines are the ones to get."

In addition to serving as the core of a great, notebook gaming platform, the NVIDIA GeForce 8M Series GPUs feature the NVIDIA PureVideo® HD engine for superior quality playback of HD DVD, Blu-ray, and HD movie downloads. The GeForce 8M Series also contain NVIDIA’s PowerMizer® technology that intelligently balances battery life and performance.

"Alienware's philosophy when designing the industry's most powerful 17 and 15-inch notebooks was the commitment to using only the best components designed around the most current technologies," said Frank Azor, Executive Vice-President for Alienware’s Product Group and Marketing. "Alienware proudly announces that our next generation notebooks, the Area-51 m17x and Area-51 m15x, launching early next year, will feature the raw power and vivid detail of NVIDIA’s GeForce 8800M GTX."

Notebooks with the new GPUs will soon be available for order from notebook makers worldwide including Alienware, Eurocom, Gateway, and Sager in North America; AIRIS, Chiligreen, Cizmo, Cybersystem, Ergo, Nexoc, Novatech, Plaisio, Rock, and XXODD in Europe; MouseComputer in Japan; and Pioneer Computers in Australia.

To learn more about the GeForce 8M Series GPUs and to find a list of the new generation notebooks using these GPUs, please visit www.nvidia.com.

About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) is the worldwide leader in graphics processor technologies. The Company creates innovative, industry-changing products for computing, consumer electronics, and mobile devices. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA and has offices throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. For more information, visit www.nvidia.com.

[STEvil]

Be interesting to see if Alienware's new notebooks suck as bad as the last batch of 5500, 5550, 5700, 5750, and 5790 (all Uniwill P71 and P72 chassis) did.

[grimREEFER]

woah, a 15 inch notebook with what i assume is just an 8800gt

[dinos22]

they are going to pretty much double performance to most previous cards and this is supposed to be a 40W TDP chip so very nice indeed >> this would mean possible 15.4" mainstream gaming machines as well

but probably mainly 17"

[villa1n]

Sounds like COD4 on the road is a reality for me now! *waits eagerly* Slightly off topic, but does DAMIT have something in the wings to counter this offering? 40w tdp is attractive.

[koei]

How much power will it suck? Not to mention advertising it for Crysis is just going to disappoint alot of people who actually buys the notebook hoping it would play the game in high setting and decent resolution.

[STEvil]

if it pulls 10k 3d06 then crysis will be ok. not great, but ok.

[dinos22]

How much power will it suck? Not to mention advertising it for Crysis is just going to disappoint alot of people who actually buys the notebook hoping it would play the game in high setting and decent resolution.

40W TDP chip dude

[[XC] hipno650]

im thinking in Xp it would pull crysis at 1680x1050 (15.4inch wide screen) maxed out (no AA of course) might need a tad of overclocking thats not to shabby for a notebook at all. and the SLI ones will be smoking fast.

[Krizby87]

im thinking in Xp it would pull crysis at 1680x1050 (15.4inch wide screen) maxed out (no AA of course) might need a tad of overclocking thats not to shabby for a notebook at all. and the SLI ones will be smoking fast.

Probably not, looking at the specs I would say that the 8800M GTX is slightly slower than the current 8800GTS G80, so chances are they can only manage those resolution at medium settings.

[hecktic]

not too bad... now we just need HP to release a new dv series or greater notebook with the nvidia graphics like 8800M GTX

[villa1n]

Probably not, looking at the specs I would say that the 8800M GTX is slightly slower than the current 8800GTS G80, so chances are they can only manage those resolution at medium settings.

yes... but look at the stream processors... 96 vs 64... and the texture fill rate, of 24.0 vs 16.0 .... as well, these can run sli, pc microworks has released one i believe. So the slower clocks = less tdp.. if you hack up your chassis, and air cool, you can ramp up the clocks i m sure.

[XS Janus]

I wish they would offer low TDP cardsw for desktops as well.
Maybe start a new thing... LV gpus

[$a1Ty]

im thinking in Xp it would pull crysis at 1680x1050 (15.4inch wide screen) maxed out (no AA of course) might need a tad of overclocking thats not to shabby for a notebook at all. and the SLI ones will be smoking fast.

wtf??? my 20in ws is 1680x1050. A 15.4in ws is only 1280x800.

[ewitte]

I wish they would offer low TDP cardsw for desktops as well.
Maybe start a new thing... LV gpus

With only a heatsink

[dieqast]

when I was at a Dell booth in a US shopping mall last summer I chatted with a Dell-guy that told me a notebook 8800GTX was coming. Didn't believe him because of heat issues with G80, those guys know stuff early mannn.

[FischOderAal]

those are based on G92, aren't they? wouldn't make much sense using a 80 nm chip in a notebook when there are 65 nm chips available...

[Kai Robinson]

8800M GTS? 64 shaders? Why is there no corresponding desktop part to this?

[Soulburner]

wtf??? my 20in ws is 1680x1050. A 15.4in ws is only 1280x800.

Notebooks have more options. The 15.4" we just ordered will be coming with a 1440x900 screen. We also had the option of 1680x1050. 1920x1200 is available on 17" units.

[aintz]

15.4inch notebook will not have any kind of 8800s. why? 15.4inch cant even handle 7900gtx.

[[XC] hipno650]

Probably not, looking at the specs I would say that the 8800M GTX is slightly slower than the current 8800GTS G80, so chances are they can only manage those resolution at medium settings.

well my 1950xtx is playable with most settings on med and some on high at that res so if you overclock the Gpu and mem a tad in the notebook you should be able to run all on high with the exception of say object detail. but it's still a great GPU for a notebook. and i would think a 15.4 inch lappy could handle it considering 17 inch ones can take dual cards and a quad core cpu.

[Soulburner]

From what I read it will be mainly meant for 17" laptops, but we will probably see someone make one work in a 15.4". The reason is its size is hard to fit in the chassis, and you need more room for cooling the beast.

[3NZ0]

15.4inch notebook will not have any kind of 8800s. why? 15.4inch cant even handle 7900gtx.

The new Alienware 15.4" refresh will support a single 8800m gtx, the 17" will sport two.

http://www.alienware.com/intro_pages/m17x_m15x.aspx

[NeedMoMegaHurtZ]

TrustedReviews has a review of a notebook sporting one of these

http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebo...-T7800-8800/p1

IMO the review could have been improved with more info on temps, battery life, etc...

[The_Beast]

sounds really cool but what are the battery times