SmogHog
01-06-2011, 09:01 PM
No GTX580M,GTX570M or GTX560M announced today.
Nvidia launched its next-generation of mobile GPUs today at CES, the 500M series, with the pointed lead-in that it expects these products to ship hand-in-hand with Sandy Bridge-equipped notebooks. The 500M series doesn't add any additional features over the 400M cards, but the company's press release stumps over Nvidia's Optimus technology, the company's 3DTV Play initiative, 3DVision, PhysX, and, of course, CUDA.
"GeForce GT 500M GPUs combined with Optimus technology enable the most versatile laptops ever created," said Rene Haas, general manager of notebook business at NVIDIA. "Pairing a great GPU with a strong CPU delivers Optimized notebook performance for consumers."
NV has named Acer, Alienware, Asus, Clevo, Dell, Fujitsu, Lenovo, MSI, Samsung, and Toshiba as launch partners and claims over 200 design wins for GeForce 500M GPUs.
Secret Magic Decoder Ring:
One of the benefits to the 400M - 500M transition is that there's no difference between the two GPU's feature sets, even where technologies like 3DTV Play are concerned. That's good news for the majority of customers who might want a certain feature like 3D Vision, but aren't sure how to verify the particular capabilities of a given product.
http://pressroom.nvidia.com/easyir/customrel.do?easyirid=A0D622CE9F579F09&version=live&prid=704360&releasejsp=release_157&xhtml=true
Nvidia released a generic beta mobile driver yesterday.(266.35)
http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win7-winvista-64bit-266.35-beta-driver.html
Nvidia launched its next-generation of mobile GPUs today at CES, the 500M series, with the pointed lead-in that it expects these products to ship hand-in-hand with Sandy Bridge-equipped notebooks. The 500M series doesn't add any additional features over the 400M cards, but the company's press release stumps over Nvidia's Optimus technology, the company's 3DTV Play initiative, 3DVision, PhysX, and, of course, CUDA.
"GeForce GT 500M GPUs combined with Optimus technology enable the most versatile laptops ever created," said Rene Haas, general manager of notebook business at NVIDIA. "Pairing a great GPU with a strong CPU delivers Optimized notebook performance for consumers."
NV has named Acer, Alienware, Asus, Clevo, Dell, Fujitsu, Lenovo, MSI, Samsung, and Toshiba as launch partners and claims over 200 design wins for GeForce 500M GPUs.
Secret Magic Decoder Ring:
One of the benefits to the 400M - 500M transition is that there's no difference between the two GPU's feature sets, even where technologies like 3DTV Play are concerned. That's good news for the majority of customers who might want a certain feature like 3D Vision, but aren't sure how to verify the particular capabilities of a given product.
http://pressroom.nvidia.com/easyir/customrel.do?easyirid=A0D622CE9F579F09&version=live&prid=704360&releasejsp=release_157&xhtml=true
Nvidia released a generic beta mobile driver yesterday.(266.35)
http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win7-winvista-64bit-266.35-beta-driver.html