NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 480M Mobile GPU

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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?

that dose not show flexibility a new chip would, this shows that it can be castrated, cutting those clusters out dose not help power consumption so its clocked lower and will suck up extra power for no reason.

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.

there is no chance of this beating the 5870m, the clock speed is to low and that low clock speed will make its texture processing way to slow like close to a mobile g92 but with more geometry like what a 260 original would have. there is no chance that it will compete with the 5870m. the 5870m is close to the 5770 so since the desktop 465 is slower than the desktop 5850 and the desktop 5770 isnt to far behind so with this massive clock down i would expect it to be bottleneck its self in the texture fill rate.

i will agree that its an accomplishment to get it sub 100W but i would expect that for the gpu not the platform.

we really need that new fermi die to bring the prices down, it should even match the stupidly giant die in performance with normal power and normal cooling