NVIDIA refreshes notebook graphics options with GeForce GM series

by Parm Mann on 9 January 2009, 16:19

Tags: GeForce GT 130M, GeForce G110M, GeForce G105M, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Having launched the all-conquering GeForce GTX 295 amid much fanfare, NVIDIA has chosen to quietly slip out a trio of new mobile parts at CES '09.

The parts make up NVIDIA's GeForce 100M series of mobile GPUs, and take shape as the gamer-orientated GeForce GT 130M, and multimedia-orientated GeForce G110M and GeForce G105M.

According to NVIDIA's in-house benchmarks, the GeForce GT 130M is said to be in the region of 17 per cent quicker in 3DMark Vantage when compared to its predecessor the GeForce 9600M GT. Lenovo has already adopted the chip as part of its IdeaPad Y650 notebook and plans to ship in March 2009.

The all-new trio's specifications breakdown as follows:

Graphics Processor
GeForce GT 130M
GeForce G110M
GeForce G105M
Stream processors
32
16
8
Stream processor clock
1,500
1,000
1,600
Memory support
DDR2 / DDR3
DDR2 / DDR3
DDR2 / DDR3
Memory clock (MHz)
500 / 800
500 / 700
500 / 700
Memory size
Up to 1GB
Up to 1GB
Up to 512MB
Memory interface
128-bit
64-bit
64-bit
DirectX / Shader Model
DX10, 4.0
DX10, 4.0
DX10, 4.0
Peak GFLOPS
144
48
38
Hardware-assisted video-decoding engine
NVIDIA PureVideo HD
NVIDIA CUDA support
Yes
Yes
Yes
NVIDIA PhysX support
Yes (in SLI)
No
No
NVIDIA SLI ready
Yes
No
No

Certainly nothing to give AMD's Mobility Radeon HD 4800 a run for its money, but a suitable performance bump over existing GeForce 9000M-series products.

Official product page: NVIDIA.com


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