Nvidia Intros New GPUs for Over 100 Secret OEMs
New chips give twice the performance but idle at only half the power -- a good mix for a mobile chip.
Nvidia this week announced five new additions to its mobile GPU family that boast up to twice the speed with only half the idle power draw as the previous generation of chips.
The new chips are all a part of the 200M series (G210M, GT 230M, GT 240M, GTS 250M, GTS 260M) and are based on the still-current G200 architecture and built on the 40-nm process.
According to Nvidia, the GTS 260M and 250M GPUs are for enthusiast notebooks; GT 240M and 230M GPUs are for performance notebooks; and GeForce G210M is for mainstream notebooks.
The new additions to the 200M series also mark two firsts for Nvidia: full DirectX 10.1 compliance and use of DDR5 memory.
The GTX 280M and GTX 260M, even though based on 55-nm G92 designs, will continue to occupy Nvidia’s top-end offerings.
Nvidia claims that the GTS 260M with its 1 GB of DDR5 memory running at 3,600 MHz on a 128-bit interface is nearly as fast as the GTX260M, which makes it a compelling alternative given the power savings and the added battery life that comes along with it.
Nvidia said that it has over 100 notebook design wins “in the bag” but can’t disclose any of them due to NDA commitments. We'll just have to wait and see who will be first out the gate with one of the new chips.

Get out.
Issues still exist on for laptops AND DESKTOPS with nvidia - i still end up sending batches of 9800GTX+'s away and still see 8600's and 8400's being replaced by the boxload - ill pass thanks nvidia, ATi for my next choice.
That way they'll possibly delay the release of chips but I'll have a chip idling 10-20 degrees less.
I'm pretty sure that they won't make the same mistakes again. After Jen-Hsun's bad choice of using the lead balls, then hiding the flaw away from consumers, I'm pretty sure that he has learned a lesson.
Get out.
Would love to see how the G210m performs against ATI and Intel variants!
and? do people complain when think a mobility 4870 doesn't even perform close to a desktop 4870?
any educated enthusiast will check benchmarks before buying.
And ummm, who needs DX10.1 eh? heheh
Yep... RV740 anyone?
Theres been somewhat of a lull after the G80 release, but since the G200 and R700 families, its returned to the same
You're forgetting the time after that on the desktop market when they rebadged most of the 8000 series as 9000 series and then rebadged some of the 9000 series as 200 series chips. New name, same game.
With news like this, there's going to be no end to the rumors on Apple enthusiast sites about when Apple will go behind everyone's backs again and bump up the specs without warning. My guess? November, after the back-to-school season, with Snow Leopard, and i7 based notebooks with the GTS 260M and GT 240M. Oh, and by this time they'll have figured out how to not only switch the chip without logging out, but they'll get hybrid SLi functioning as well. Just you watch. You read it here first, Apple-heads!
Oh, anything with a few unsubstantiated claims and accusations just to start a little controversy. Flame on!
GTX320-GTX325
GTX340-GTX345
GTX360-GTX365
GTX380-GTX385
With the GTX3x5 series just being revisions of the generation before with die shrinks and other optimizations, and for the mobile ships just add an m at the end ie: GTX380M-GTX385M
What i think really is going on here is the engineers have hit a wall and haven't been able to improve the previous generations. Thats why we are just getting these small tweaks
Shoo
I think it would be cool to have a little honesty:
"This mobile GPU will perform very much like a desktop HD3870. So we are designating this as an HD3870 Mobile"
May not mean much to the average PC buyer, but at least they could decide to research it if they like.
Rebadging old tech is really starting to piss me off too. So much so that I'm not planning on buying ANY manufacturers card for a while. Also the tiny incremental improvements make it a waste of time to upgrade from a previous generation.
I went from an 8800GT to an HD4850 and have noticed very little difference. Sure, some benchmarks are better, but actual computing and gameplay are about the same.
On the other hand, I noticed a HUGE difference going from a Phenom X4 9850 to a PII X4 940. Vast improvement.
But then, CPU naming schemes are freakin stupid too.