14 DAY TRIAL // Eurocom, the manufacturer of some of the most powerful mobile workstations on the market, has just announced that its top of the line Panther 2.0 super-notebooks can now be configured with Nvidia's fastest mobile graphics card, the recently released GeForce GTX 485M.
Eurocom will be supporting the GTX 485M in single and SLI configurations, since the Panther 2.0 laptop supports two MXM 3.0b graphics card modules.
This new Nvidia GPU adds to the already impressive list of dedicated video cards that is supported by Eurocom's machines, other options including a wide series of Nvidia built GeForce and Quadro models as well as the AMD Radeon Mobility HD 6970M graphics card.
To complement Nvidia's solution, the rest of the machine can be configured with up to Intel i7-980X Extreme or Xeon 5600 series processors, a maximum of 24GB of DDR3-1600 DDR3 memory and as much as 4 physical drives (mechanical, Hybrid Solid or SSD) setup in RAID 0/1/5/10.
In addition, the machine also features a 1920x1080 Full HD 17.3-inch LED panel display.
The recently released GTX 485M is Nvidia's fastest mobile graphics card and it’s based on the GF104 graphics core.
As a result, the card is equipped with 384 CUDA cores, 56 texture address units, 32 ROPs and a 256-bit memory interface.
In Eurocom's implementation, the card comes with a 575MHz graphics clock and 2GB of GDDR5 memory run at 1500MHz, pushing memory bandwidth to a theoretical 96GB/sec.
In addition to the Panther 2.0, the GTX 485M will also be available in the Leopard Mobile Workstation and Cheetah 2.0 notebook models, although the Cheetah will only support a single such GPU.
The card is already listed on the company's website, in their Panther 2.0 configurator, a basic model with a GTX 485M graphics cards setting you back $2938 US.
Going for an SLI setup raises this price to $3723.