NVIDIA's DX10-capable 8M laptop GPUs get official
By Darren Murph 
posted May 9th 2007 12:15PM
posted May 9th 2007 12:15PM
NVIDIA's been parading its DirectX 10 desktop GPUs around for some time now, and while we've seen lappies in the pipeline that tout the DX10 niceties, the firm is getting all formal on us with the release of the 8M series of laptop graphics cards. Hailed as the "world's first mobile GPU to support DirectX 10 and fully accelerate decoding of H.264 full HD movies," the 8M series will initially consist of the GeForce 8600M and 8400M. NVIDIA claims that these chips will provide "up to twice the performance of previous generation GPUs," and also boasts about the PureVideo HD processing engine and PowerMizer technology that purportedly conserves battery life when you're not engaged in a ruthless deathmatch. Unsurprisingly, the chips have already been made available to laptop manufacturers, so watch for these suckas in forthcoming "HP, Toshiba, Acer, Samsung, and Asus offerings."
NV had better get on the horn to Microsoft about disabling Aero when on battery power, or they're going to take a lot of misplaced flak when people start whining that their "PowerMizer" technology does squat. Or maybe that's all that PowerMizer actually does?
Good news!. I want my next Dell laptop with this GPU.
are we still looking at shared memory architecture...cause if so then these will still suck :(
im certainly not the first to say it, but
this thread is worthless without benchmarks.
on a slightly different note, i'm tempted to buy the first high resolution 15.4 notebook with an 8600M that comes my way. however i am certain i'll regret the decision 6 months afterwards when nv releases the next revision. fsck. also, i would kill for a tablet. 1440x900 12 inch with a 8600m please, i'll take two.
loopyoyo, i dont think goforce mobile have EVER used integrated memory. what are you smoking?
what do you think turbocache is? huh? huh?
Who cares aslong as they have their own memory + TurboCache? Better than only their own memory.
The new Macbook Pro got this GPU.