Nvidia Announces 480M Fermi GPU for Notebooks

If a laptop has to always be plugged in to run, is it really a laptop?

A pair of these in SLI in a notebook? Battery life = about 10 minutes.

Ah, so we found the cause of global warming.

I can see the title of the laptop now.
The new Nvidia Hotbook: Warming your lap and playing your games for an incredibly crappy price, and barely beating the $100 less 5870 while comsuming all your laptops power.

Well looks like they are bring back the lugeibles (25lb back breakers) just to be able to have 2 or 3 hour battery life.

Maybe they will include an integrated vga chip so users can switch when the GTX 480M monster is not in use.
I hope it won't melt laptops made of plastic or thin aluminum.

"Snide remark about how the 480M is a hot and power hungry chip" -smart ass

Cool. I always wanted to use my laptop as a frying pan.

Nvidia even dare not to post the TDP.

will it come with a garden hose attachment for water cooling? how about portable geothermal heating options?

In terms of graphics power, 897 GFLOPs puts it in the same league of the desktop GTX 465 (855.36 GFLOPs). Seriously, name inflation like this just shouldn't be allowed (ATI does the same). It's not a GTX 480 in terms of performance by a long shot, the desktop GTX 280 is more powerful.

I'd be interested in seeing some benchmarking results because the 5870 mobile chip claims 1120 GFLOPs.

Come on you need to let go the Crysis jokes, it was funny like 6 months ago

In other news, HP has completely given up on putting Nvidia chips in their laptops.

I don't like NVidia now because of CUDA. Support OpenCL and drop this CUDA gimmick. I'm not interested in learning an api that will tie me down to a particular brand of such a small market.

Great! Now we have a mobile oven for camping and stuff like that

I heard apple is going to put it in an all metal notebook called the iGrill. Comes with a free basting brush.

I can already see/hear the flaming begin.

Fermi = Epic Fail

Based on the 8800/9800GTX core I assume?

chestnuts roasting over an open fermi.

Yawn to the heat and frying pan jokes. I remember when everybody was making fun of the cards before they were even released, and then when they arrived people were reporting that there were/are no heating issues at all (take a look at the reivews on newegg). Give it a rest. Fermi is a great leap and ya it's a bit wrinkled but it will get ironed out sooner than you can stop with the lame jokes.

... that means, that the radiator will be outside of laptop casing... and there will bet went holes near or in the keyboard...

I hate to jump on the heat bandwagon, but my ASUS G72GX with the GTX260M idles @ 64c without powermiser enabled (down clock) I have hit 92c playing that game that starts with a "C". So scoff all you want, BUT IT IS AN ISSUE. I knew this when buying it, but it is something you have to keep an eye on.

So MANY ATI groupies on this site.

I KNOW I KNOW. BUMP DOWN ATI FANBOYS.

So it's about as powerful as an Nvidia 6800gt??

Heat and power is certainly an issue with this card. I'll admit on a desktop computer, case cooling, water cooling etc can negate the negatives side effects of Fermi, but you can't really do that with a laptop. I have a feeling any laptop attempting to use this card will either have a very short battery life or a VERY large battery. The 480 incarnations have too many side-effects to justify buying one, IMO, and on a laptop those side-effects will become measurably more pronounced. Patiently waiting for a GTX 485...

I have a GTX260M in my laptop. I have a 12 cell battery. I get 3 hrs max out of it unplugged, without gaming. If this has a higher TDP, battery life will be beyond terrible.

Just what I wanted a portably electric grill.

I wonder how they can get performance higher than the GTX 465 inside a 100 watt TDP? Also, I'd kinda hoped they would use a GF104 chip for this card...