NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M: 'world's fastest' mobile GPU now official, landing in June

NVIDIA has just announced that the GTX 480M, the mobile re-spin of its extravagantly overpowered Fermi desktop parts, will be arriving in the middle of next month. Touted as the world's fastest mobile graphics processor, this chip will bring 352 CUDA cores and a 256-bit memory interface to up to 2GB of GDDR5 RAM. These are clear and convincing advances over the incumbent Green Team leader, the 360M, but things start to look a little worrying when we check the 480M's clock speeds. The processor speed is nearly halved from the desktop GTX 480, at 850MHz, the memory does only 1,200MHz, and the graphics run at 425MHz -- we didn't know anything worthwhile even operated below 500MHz these days. Either way, you're getting a computing powerhouse, with the 480M's 897 gigaflops comfortably dwarfing its predecessor's 413 and promising almighty tessellation performance. What it all means with regard to keeping your frame rates up while traversing the Terminus Systems, we can't yet say. We'll let the benchmarking gurus figure it out -- go past the break for the full press release and spec sheet.

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05/25/2010: New GeForce GTX 480M: the World's Fastest Notebook GPU

Today we introduced the new GeForce GTX 480M GPU for Notebooks and with it we're achieving some very impressive milestones. First, this is DirectX 11 done right for notebooks. Tessellation is the most important new feature for the DirectX 11 API, and the GeForce GTX 480M is a true tessellation monster for the notebook platform. It offers a dedicated Tessellation engine for up to 5x more performance than any other GPU.

Second, with the power of the GeForce GTX 480M GPUs, notebook manufacturers can set new records for notebook performance. Put simply: If a notebook maker wants to build the fastest possible system on the planet, they will start with GeForce GTX 480M as its foundation.

Third, we've now brought the vaunted Fermi architecture to notebooks. 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.

And finally, the GeForce GTX 480M not only delivers the world's best gaming frame rates, it also gives added features that no other GPU offers, including NVIDIA 3D Vision technology for an immersive gaming experience, NVIDIA PhysX technology that brings games to life with dynamic, interactive environments and NVIDIA Verde Notebook Drivers for the most up-to-date performance from your notebook.

We're happy to partner with Clevo to introduce the first system based on GeForce GTX 480M. Stay tuned for more systems in the future.

[Dipsodic Posted May 25th 2010 9:41AM]

SOMEBODY CALL NINE-ONE-ONE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkyhvCdJ_vM

[Failbait Posted May 25th 2010 9:52AM]

@Dipsodic
CALL DA AMBA LANSE!

[archkron Posted May 25th 2010 11:40AM]

@Dipsodic

FERMI BURNIN' UP THE DANCEFLOOR

[Crylo Posted May 29th 2010 11:46AM]

@Dipsodic Why? Is shorties fire burning on the dance floor?

[TareG Posted May 25th 2010 9:43AM]

Who cares. Game developers are already moving away from PC, it's killing me inside as a PC gamer. I might as well just get a PS3 mouse and keyboard, and move on.

[Dummy00001 Posted May 25th 2010 10:49AM]

@TareG, game libraries on Steam and Impulse strongly disagree with you.

And it's not that you need a new card to play the PC games. In last H/W survey on Steam, GeForce 8800 was the most popular graphic card. gt260 or hd5770 can play pretty much everything with high details at decent resolutions and cost less than $150 - or even gf9800 which can be had for $100.

[d3sc3nd3ncy Posted May 25th 2010 9:50AM]

How do you call a GPU 'mobile' if a laptop battery is insufficient to power it?

[CornerStone Posted May 25th 2010 9:56AM]

@d3sc3nd3ncy

very true

[Failbait Posted May 25th 2010 9:35PM]

@CornerStone
By definition, mobile doesn't even have to require a battery.

[GenBlood Posted May 25th 2010 9:52AM]

Most likely this chip will be used in high end laptops costing
around $4000+ and with 12 or more cells for the battery to run it ...

[CornerStone Posted May 25th 2010 9:55AM]

Nice... It'll only cost you an arm, a leg, and a thigh! A thigh because it'll burn it off! Fermi get crazy hot = crazy power consumption = 5 min battery life :( Really Nvidia get your game together, and make "better" gpu's

[Bzzz Posted May 25th 2010 10:00AM]

Finally! A working portable coffee cup warmer!

[YigRoo Posted May 25th 2010 10:10AM]

Wow, looks like NVidea is killing it dude, thats amazing.

Lou
www.complete-anonymity.at.tc

[patrickgs Posted May 25th 2010 10:14AM]

@summerboy18 I have the 330m with 1 gb in my vaio. The 1GB Version is actually pretty decent. Apple could easily upgrade the MacBooks from the 512MB version...

[robamb2002 Posted May 25th 2010 10:17AM]

nice! just in time for Clevo's big reveal at Computex next week... *drool*

[ryonavin Posted May 25th 2010 10:25AM]

figures that this announcement would come right after I bought a gaming laptop

[cabose369 Posted May 25th 2010 10:37AM]

and with this your laptop will now run 40 degrees hotter than before!!!

[ELaimins Posted May 25th 2010 10:38AM]

Well, it only makes sense that they'd lessen the speed and so forth.

The 480 in desktops puts out enough heat to keep a New York City block warm and toasty in January.

Even with this tuned-down 480, how on earth will any laptop manufacturer going to be able to keep temps in safe ranges? They gonna put nitrogen coolant in laptops or something??

[Original Nosebleed Posted May 25th 2010 10:55AM]

Were would this be best used mobile,tablet,laptop don't know much about gpus lol

[Smurf Posted May 25th 2010 10:55AM]

My m11x's 335m is pretty powerful, but it's DWARFED by this thing. The 335m's 223 gigaflops of processing power versus the 480's 900 gigaflops of processing power?

This thing is going to eat Crysis and poop Metro.

[archkron Posted May 25th 2010 11:42AM]

@Smurf

Powerful... for a mobile part. This still wont chew through Metro at decent resolutions.

[sabby Posted May 25th 2010 10:56AM]

Question : Will the battery ( 12cells or whatever ) of the laptop having this card allow the user to shut down the OS properly if the power cord is unplugged ?

[xxxsam Posted May 25th 2010 4:45PM]

@sabby Depends. How quickly can you shut down the OS? You've got about ten seconds. :)

[xdeiri Posted May 25th 2010 12:02PM]

so this is a shrink down from the desktop version right?

[kenny goo Posted May 25th 2010 12:05PM]

I got a question for you guys. I'm getting a laptop for college, and I'm curious if I should bothering geting a dedicated graphics card over an Intel GMA even though I probably wont *need* it for my major or anything. I'm worried it'll kill my battery life, but with PowerPlay I figure the ATI card won't perform too poorly with the battery.

[John Doe Posted May 25th 2010 3:43PM]

@kenny goo Get something that can do both. There are a number of laptops now on the market that can switch on the fly between Intel graphics and NVidia.

[kenny goo Posted May 25th 2010 9:29PM]

@John Doe

Suggestions on something $800-$100? I need something about mid range. Core i5. 64-bit OS. 4 gigs of RAM.

[John Doe Posted May 25th 2010 3:38PM]

I hope that can go into my Alienware M15x. Mmmmm graphiclicious

[motu06 Posted May 25th 2010 3:52PM]

I guess higher bit interfaces can save clock cycles. Hence under clocking it might not be that bad an idea.

[balanarahul Posted Jun 13th 2010 12:15PM]

NVIDIA GTX 465 for desktop > NVIDIA GTX 480M > ATi Radeon 5770 for desktop > ATi Mobility Radeon 5870