Nvidia’s GeForce 400M Series Roids Up Notebook Graphics of All Classes [Graphics Cards]

Nvidia gave us a taste of what its Fermi-based notebook graphics cards could be like with the GeForce GTX 480M, but now it’s time to satisfy the entire family. That’s seven Fermi GPUs, running the gamut from face-melting to face-singeing.

What makes these graphics special? It all comes back to Fermi, which was built to support those juicy DirectX 11 graphics you’re so eager about. But maybe more importantly, they’re coming at a time when Nvidia’s Optimus graphics-switching technology has been picked up in broadly. Which means that solid graphics aren’t going to automatically destroy your battery. No less than, not quite as fast.

Nvidia’s promising 40x better performance than the previous generation of GeForce-though that’s based on a mystery amalgamation of a lot of different benchmarks and internal tests-and the recent lineup will support CUDA, 3D Vision, and PhysX. The genuine competitor isn’t old Nvidia GPUs, though. It’s Intel’s integrated solution, which consistent with Nvidia handles game play and photo retouching 5x slower than the recent GeForce hotness.

At the low end of the spectrum is the GeForce GT 415M, featuring 48 processor cores, and up to 512Mb memory. You may expect to pay about a $50 premium for it versus rig with integrated graphics. The head-end GeForce GTX 470M , against this, comes loaded with 288 cores, up to 1Gb memory, and 1.25 GHz memory clock. No benchmarks are available in yet, but we’re expecting loads of pep when Nvidia’s PC partners-basically everyone except HP-start announcing their fall line-up. [ Nvidia ]

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