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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I'd be interested in seeing some benchmarking results because the 5870 mobile chip claims 1120 GFLOPs.
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.
I hope it won't melt laptops made of plastic or thin aluminum.
I'd be interested in seeing some benchmarking results because the 5870 mobile chip claims 1120 GFLOPs.