Nvidia Announces 480M Fermi GPU for Notebooks

Earlier this year, Nvidia unleashed its DirectX 11 offerings on the desktop world with the GeForce GTX 480 and 470. Now the company is spreading the Fermi technology to the mobile segment.

Today Nvidia officially announced the GeForce GTX 480M, which it touts as the world's fastest notebook GPU and "DirectX 11 done right" with hardware tessellation support.

"GeForce GTX 480M delivers nearly three times more Nvidia CUDA cores over previous generation Notebook GPUs, which means users get unbelievably fast video transcoding, upscaling from standard definition to high definition and real-time movie clean-up with the click of a button," Nvidia's Matt Wuebbling wrote in a blog post.

GPU Engine Specs:

CUDA Cores	352
Gigaflops	897
Processor Clock (MHz)	850 MHz
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec)	18.7

Memory Specs:

Memory Clock (MHz)	1200
Memory Interface Width	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)	76.8

Feature Support:

NVIDIA SLI®-ready^*	2-Way
NVIDIA 3D Vision Ready
NVIDIA PureVideo® Technology^**	HD
NVIDIA PhysX™-ready
NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology
Microsoft DirectX	11
OpenGL	3.2
Bus Support	PCI-E 2.0
Certified for Windows 7

Display Support:

Maximum Digital Resolution	2560x1600
Maximum VGA Resolution	2048x1536

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Trueno07 7 years ago

If a laptop has to always be plugged in to run, is it really a laptop?
rmmil978 7 years ago

A pair of these in SLI in a notebook? Battery life = about 10 minutes.
Spanky Deluxe 7 years ago

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.

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Trueno07 7 years ago

If a laptop has to always be plugged in to run, is it really a laptop?
rmmil978 7 years ago

A pair of these in SLI in a notebook? Battery life = about 10 minutes.
amstech 7 years ago

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.
nforce4max 7 years ago

Well looks like they are bring back the lugeibles (25lb back breakers) just to be able to have 2 or 3 hour battery life.
yoda8232 7 years ago

Ah, so we found the cause of global warming.
jojesa 7 years ago

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.
IzzyCraft 7 years ago

"Snide remark about how the 480M is a hot and power hungry chip" -smart ass
crazybaldhead 7 years ago

Cool. I always wanted to use my laptop as a frying pan.
mianmian 7 years ago

Nvidia even dare not to post the TDP.
Spanky Deluxe 7 years ago

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.
edwilson 7 years ago

will it come with a garden hose attachment for water cooling? how about portable geothermal heating options?
EvilMonk 7 years ago

Come on you need to let go the Crysis jokes, it was funny like 6 months ago
NapoleonDK 7 years ago

In other news, HP has completely given up on putting Nvidia chips in their laptops.
dman3k 7 years ago

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.
etrom 7 years ago

Great! Now we have a mobile oven for camping and stuff like that
stm1185 7 years ago

I heard apple is going to put it in an all metal notebook called the iGrill. Comes with a free basting brush.
invalid777 7 years ago

I can already see/hear the flaming begin.
jimslaid2 7 years ago

Fermi = Epic Fail
sublifer 7 years ago

Based on the 8800/9800GTX core I assume?
Anonymous 7 years ago

chestnuts roasting over an open fermi.

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