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I know it was just announced today, but does anyone know if this card has a 128 bit or a 256 bit memory bus? Everything I've read said it's basically just an overclocked 8600M. If that's the case the performance won't be anything spectacular and probably won't even surpass the 7 series mobile parts. Anyone?

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if it is an overclocked 8600m then it'll have 128 bus

Reply to jordanwise

I'm very interested myself. I noticed that article in digitimes mentioned an up to 70% increase in proformance, but they didn't say on what kind of application or compared to what other mobile GPU. If it's a 70% performance increase in HD-video decoding and a 1% increase in game framrates, then who cares? It also didn't say when we could expect to see them delivered in laptops to the stores.

Reply to Gneisenau

It appears it will have the 128-bit memory bus but will have something called "dual-rank 128-bit memory". I'd love to see benchies on similar clocked 8600 for comparison personally.

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Nvidia is also using something it calls dual-rank 128-bit memory, although we’re not quite sure what this does at the time of writing this, but it sounds like some kind of dual channel memory interface. It can be paired with up to 512MB of GDDR3 memory.



It is said it should be superior to the 7950 mobile part at least. I hope so as I've been pondering a notebook PC here lately and would like to game when away if possible.

Reply to Talon

Sofar information is sketchy but considering the speed and bandwidth numbers it looks like a 128bit part not 256bit.

Reply to TheGreatGrapeApe

Well that seems a bit odd... we make a big leap to 320 bit from 128 bit? Thought there would be at least one 256 bit offering. Might be the only 256bit card is the supposed ATi HD2800GTO???

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Reply to f61

Specs is here and they are sad sad sad.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/best-gr [...] 268357.php
http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/nvidia8700GT/2016797

The junk in the post to me has this below now compare the 2 and weep.
Even the 7800gtx in 50% power mode I am replacing with the 7950gtx can nuke the 8700m in a hart beat.

Dell e1705 / m1710 NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX
PCI Express
Memory Interface 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth(GB/sec) 44.8
Fill Rate(Billion pixels/sec) 13.8
Vertices/Second(Millions) 1150
RAMDACs (MHz) 400

What the heck is going wrong at nvidia ? No wonder Apple did not buy from them.
Man this is sad I am so glad I kept my Zippo / Dell E1705 now.

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