Fermi Heading to Laptops With GTX 480M?

I predict a whopping 15mins of battery life and burning sensation in my pants as the GPU burns a hole through them.

LOL.

Battery life with Fermi in a laptop: less than windows boot time.

Why buy a desktop PC in a laptop form factor?

How far back will they down clock this thing to keep it cool enough inside a laptop?

Imagine how big the power brick is going to be.

If that 100W means it needs 100Watts of power...


Mobility Radeon 5870 GPU

TDP: 50 Watts


Fail again Nvidia.

Well tbh when are you gonna need a laptop with that much power? last years models would be able to play any game but then they wouldn't have DX11

This is true, but at least we know for certain it can play Crysis at 16x AA and 16x AF at 2x1080p...

Or can it?

I have the ASUS G50VT, little over a year old now, with a measly GeForce 9800M GS and the power brick is literally the size of a brick. The exhaust vents on this thing get rather hot as it is. I can't imagine how big the brick is going to need to be and how hot that sucker is going to get. No thanks.

Battery life doesn't matter to desktop replacement computers, what really matters is how hot the cards get.

High end laptops with the mobility 5870 run luckwarm, reaching temps slightly above human heat (notebookreview displays it pretty clearly in many product reviews).

But Fermi runs at almost the boiling point of water. Assuming that the cards are half as hot, it would still be around 50 degrees at your fingertips. Not to mention the fact that it can harm the other parts of the machine because of the lack of real estate for airflow!

Bad. Idea.

This is what happens when you try and put fermi in a laptop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WSPqLKgnQs

Even with optimus it seems an under-clocked version of this will consume too much battery power. It doesnt make sense to have a GPU w a higher TDP than a CPU.

Scary when a lot of today's laptops consume considerably less power than that.

For the griller on the go...

George Foreman ain't got nothin' on Fermi...

The faster your laptop breaks, the sooner you will buy a new one...

No covert WoW playing in class with this laptop...

I've been using a notebook computer as a desktop replacement for over three years... If you are not a gamer and needed the mobility like I did than it makes sense to get a good GPU and CPU. Even through my computer is old it can play anything(1080p or Any applications) except for games.

BUT fremi + notebook computer is a fail they will have to under-clock it to get that TDP down around 50W and who knows how it will perform after that much under-clocking.

The i7's for notebooks TDP is only 45W........

Amazing Taro28's water-cooled laptop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCY [...] r_embedded

if nvidia fermi card finish in laptops this gonna become a standard

Have you heard it comes with a Coleman and a battery back-pack?

I think it's pretty obvious that this will not use the gf100 GPU... for all those cracking jokes. I've heard rumors that the GTX 480m will use the upcoming gf104, the same GPU that will be incorporated into GTS 450. Specs include 256 SP, a 256-bit mem interface, and up to 2 GB GDDR5.

No word on die size, transistor count, or power consumption yet... but somehow I have serious doubts a GPU like that can be kept below 100W without under-clocking way below desktop versions.

Soon we will hear of Laptops bursting into flame.

One of these in alienware laptops (or whatever you want to call them) and the true alienware name will be justified.. This is seriouslly 'OF THE ALIEN! BY THE ALIEN!! FOR THE ALIEN!!!'

With battery life at 15 min enough time for one round of Bad Company 2. Fermi = Fail!

Great so now fermi lovers can burn their legs off.

And the ati fanboys pounce before they know anything about it.... you guys are always worth a good laugh if nothing else!

*cough* REBRAND! *cough*

GTX480...coming from nvidia, will it really be a Fermi part of will it just be a rebadged 9800?

power brick will be a normal PSu in a rubber sleave

Anyone who claims to run a real gaming notebook on a battery for any length of time is going to be lying.

Anyone who thinks a multi-GPU or big GPU notebook is intended for being run on battery needs to go back to reading PC World.

I guess when their performance champ has been knocked down a few notches, there is nothing left but to focus on things that don't matter to rational people.

Like most, I predict a re-badge of a lower end part... History speaks for itself in the nvidia mobile department... 100W is going to be a killer if that is JUST the gpu...

They were talking about sound output from the fans. Actually. You can expect 120dB of painful whirring when sitting 6 feet away from the laptop.