NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 480M Mobile GPU

[mindfury]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product...x-480m-us.html

352 CUDA cores
Core 425Mhz
Shader 850Mhz
256bit 2400Mhz GDDR5

[-Sweeper_]

the world's most power draining notebook GPU

[Mats]

Wanted: Lots of jokes about how hot it is and how much power it uses, maybe throw in "can it play crysis?" while you're at it, or a pic of a burning laptop. We just can't get enough of it.

Really.

[takamishanoku]

I think for a notebook that card is insane. Xtreme alright!

[RejZoR]

Last time i've seen info, this "GTX 480M" is suppose to be slightly modified GTS 250 core...

EDIT:
Correction, it was the GTX 280M. My bad.

[trinibwoy]

Those specs don't make sense.

A 352 shader part should have 44 TMUs for 37.4GT/s and not 18.7GT/s (half that). It should also have 1.2 Gflops and not 900 Gflops for 850/1700 clocks.

[mindfury]

Those specs don't make sense.

A 352 shader part should have 44 TMUs for 37.4GT/s and not 18.7GT/s (half that). It should also have 1.2 Gflops and not 900 Gflops for 850/1700 clocks.

Core 425/Shader 850 clocks

[trinibwoy]

Core 425/Shader 850 clocks

Ah that makes more sense given the reported texture throughput. But it doesn't explain the Gflops. 352 shaders at 850Mhz is ~ 600Gflops.

[Florinmocanu]

352 shaders at 425 mhz. GTX 480 is 480 at 700. And it's around 1.35 gigaflops. I actually don't know if it's really 900 gflops, should be lower than that.

[Sgt.McRuff]

Dose the outlet require to be 220v @ 15amps for this portable fermunce? If anyone claims its a LAPtop, they must have a really good flame suit.

I wonder what type of voltage this chip is running?

[BenchZowner]

Under 0.82V.

[Helmore]

If anyone claims its a LAPtop, they must have a really good flame suit.

No the motive behind a laptop featuring this GPU is much more sinister than you think. The thought is that anyone stupid enough to buy such a laptop should not be able to reproduce, which is why such a laptop will put out so much heat that anyone who dares to put it on their lap will be sterilized.

[josiahsuarez]

Wanted: Lots of jokes about how hot it is and how much power it uses, maybe throw in "can it play crysis?" while you're at it, or a pic of a burning laptop. We just can't get enough of it.

Really.

[Sam_oslo]

Hey kids why don't you QUOTE your genius insider about the bad performance this time?

It is really embracing for this forum. People jump on and starts bushing everything that comes nVidia and Intel, before the product hits the marked, and before any real benchmarks or results.

Get a clue before you jump on judging an unreleased product.

[TehVince]

But is it faster than 5870M and when can we expect a flag ship laptop with this part, such as the ASUS G73?

If it's faster, I don't care how short my battery life is or how hot it gets!

[bingo13]

But is it faster than 5870M and when can we expect a flag ship laptop with this part, such as the ASUS G73?

Product answers next week.. and it works just fine so far....

[Russian]

Afaik, the G73 was built with some wiggleroom on the GPU something like 50w... so it should be able to handle an NV GTX 400M series GPU.

[TehVince]

I can't wait, I hope it out performs the ATI offering!

The G73 has a great chassis (no fans underneath, like a Mac!), it would be awesome if we had a choice of GPUs.

[=SOC= Admiral]

Am I the only one that noticed that this fits the specifications for the GTX465.

[Macadamia]

Am I the only one that noticed that this fits the specifications for the GTX465.

Hmm, if the way they cut the units are the same...

0.7x core clock
~0.75x memory clock

So you get 0.8x (max) perf of a GTX 465, which itself like a GTX 285/275 or so...
GTX260 performance or so?

It will definitely be the fastest mobile GPU, no thanks to the anemic 128-bit memory interface of Juniper (you can't really clock RAM fast on notebooks). But the gap should be less than expected- about 15-20% more performance? For double the TDP...


I'm still seeing HP's Envy 15 (if it didn't have that many problems)/17 as the perfect notebook blend for the majority of gamers (who really game)- definitely enough graphics performance, without the heft or uglyness associated with a gaming notebook. These are just gonna sell way more than any Alienware/Clevo, so nVidia really needs a 20-40W lineup on Fermi soon, and hopefully GF104 is (part) of the answer.

But really, congrats to nVidia on making a 530mm2 chip fit with 100W cooling on a design, and actually selling it! ATI would have a hard time doing that for several reasons.

[RaZz!]

german notebook e-tailer mysn already offers notebooks with 480m for preorder.

it's about time nvidia streamlines their mobile offerings. they used the same architecture over and over again. i think a castrated fermi with a lower power draw could be a pretty good mobile gpu.

[bamtan2]

regarding the heat of the gtx 480m. there are laptops with dual 75W gtx280m chips. 150W of graphics in one laptop. this new chip will not be unusual.

Am I the only one that noticed that this fits the specifications for the GTX465.

the gtx465 isnt even announced yet. it has no specifications.

[Sam_oslo]

german notebook e-tailer mysn already offers notebooks with 480m for preorder.

it's about time nvidia streamlines their mobile offerings. they used the same architecture over and over again. i think a castrated fermi with a lower power draw could be a pretty good mobile gpu.

It was actually pretty fast, after all Fermi is just a few months old. Why should we call it "castrated Fermi"? nobody puts a full blown desktop GPU in a notebook. Maybe a flexible and scalable Fermi-architecture is making this possible so fast?

[mk-ultra]

Hey kids why don't you QUOTE your genius insider about the bad performance this time?

It is really embracing for this forum. People jump on and starts bushing everything that comes nVidia and Intel, before the product hits the marked, and before any real benchmarks or results.

Get a clue before you jump on judging an unreleased product.

lol the jokes went from slow,hot unmanufaturable to hot only

[Manicdan]

But really, congrats to nVidia on making a 530mm2 chip fit with 100W cooling on a design, and actually selling it!

is the chip going into the laptops really that big, just shut off pieces by lazer cuts or whatever the hell they do? i dont think i would want such a big chip in a laptop, takes up way too much space