14 DAY TRIAL // We spoke enough of the GeForce GTX 680 desktop graphics card for one day, so now we are examining the GeForce 600M series of notebook graphics.
The 28nm Kepler series of graphics processing units is just as ready to serve the mobile market as it is to power standard add-in boards.
This can only mean that a new Verde driver release is just around the corner, even if we didn't find it when we spotted the 301.10.
"The Kepler architecture stands as NVIDIA's greatest technical achievement to date," said Brian Kelleher, senior vice president of GPU engineering at NVIDIA.
At any rate, the GeForce 600M family is good for both regular notebooks and ultrabooks.
The Optimus technology is fully supported, as is the PhysX engine, the 3D Vision technology (optional) and the 3DTV Play software (links mobile PCs to 3D TVs).
Naturally, the SLI multi-GPU technology is included in the feature set as well.
"The Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3 brings a superior level of performance to the Ultrabook category," said Sumit Agnihotry, vice president of product marketing at Acer America.
"With a GeForce GPU onboard, our thin and light Ultrabook does everything our customers want it to do, with no compromises."
Obviously, Acer is not the only PC maker that will sell notebooks and/or ultrabooks equipped with a 600M GPU.
Toshiba, Acer, LG, Samsung, Lenovo, Dell, HP, Sony and ASUS all have similar intentions.
"Customers are about to see notebook manufacturers unveil a host of Ultrabooks that are truly worthy of the 'ultra' moniker," said Rene Haas, general manager of notebook products at NVIDIA.
"The more efficient and powerful GeForce 600M GPUs will raise performance from the Ultrabook segment all the way up to gaming notebooks. And they will be the most popular discrete GPUs used with Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge processor."