14 DAY TRIAL // Although NVIDIA seems to be the best 3D desktop GPU maker of the moment, it also aims at obtaining more shares on the mobile GPU market. Intel may still reign supreme over the entire GPU market with its integrated solutions, but NVIDIA is willing to change all that with their brand-new mobile GPUs.
The new GeForce 8M Series of graphics processors target the ever evolving notebook PC market. The latest GPUs support Windows Vista, DirectX 10 games and HD content, improving performance and enhancing visual quality. NVIDIA is proud to announce that these GPUs are the world's first solutions to support DirectX 10 and fully accelerate decoding of H.264 full HD movies on mobile PCs. NVIDIA is presenting the GeForce 8600M and GeForce 8400M versions for now, but other powerful versions will soon be released as well. Here are three important features that come with the new mobile GPUs:
-the extremely efficient, unified architecture that was first included in G80 desktop GPUs and which delivers up to 2 times the performance of previous generation graphics processors for Windows Vista, DirectX 10 games and mainstream applications; -revolutionary PureVideo HD content processing engine for the ultimate playback of HD DVD, Blu-ray and HD movie downloads; -NVIDIA PowerMizer technology that intelligently balances the user's need for longer battery life and performance
NVIDIA claims that, for the new GF 8M series, the new video-processing engine is able to process 100% of the H.264 HD video decoding, freeing the dual or multi-core CPU for other tasks and significantly reducing power consumption, heat and noise.
NVIDIA provides five 8M variants for notebook integrators for the moment: the GeForce 8600M GT, 8600M GS, 8400M GT, 8400M GS and the 8400M G. The top-of the-line cards will sport 512MB of memory on a 128-bit interface, while entry-level models such as 8400M GS and 8400M will only support 256MB on 64-bit.