Any new info on the Nvidia 200m series?

[rstove02]

Did not know if this would of been more applicable in the video card or laptop forums, so if I picked the wrong one, mods please move it to the other forum. Thank you.

Over a month ago I started getting the itch to upgrade my modest gaming laptop and came across Nvidia's press release of the 200m series. Their claims of twice the GPU power for half the power load piqued my interest.

Decided to push off the upgrade to wait to see how the mobile video chipsets would pan out. Was hoping that more information was forthcoming (like engineering sample previews/review, whitepapers, OEM release dates, anything really) over the last month, but google searches of articles yield only the original announcement of them.

Basically this is a general request of any non-NDA information on these chipsets. Good news, bad news, release dates, anything. Hell I would take wild hypothesizes at this time.

 

[masteryoda34]

The nvidia GTX 200 mobile series is already available. Take note though, the GTX 200 mobile series uses the old G92b chips. (128 shaders, 55nm). So the mobile versions are not at all the same as the desktop GTX 200 cards.

 

[DarkZeratul]

Hey it is supposed that GTX 200 'mobile series' announced will be 40nm parts, not 55 nm parts, dont' it?

 

[Henrah]

Originally posted by: masteryoda34
The nvidia GTX 200 mobile series is already available. Take note though, the GTX 200 mobile series uses the old G92b chips. (128 shaders, 55nm). So the mobile versions are not at all the same as the desktop GTX 200 cards.

Originally posted by: DarkZeratul
Hey it is supposed that GTX 200 'mobile series' announced will be 40nm parts, not 55 nm parts, dont' it?

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=18814

Just a rehash:
The GTX260M and GTX280M are G92b chips (55nm, 112 and 128 shaders respectively). All other 200M products are the new 40nm parts. The titles are mentioned in the summary of this thread by the OP. None of them have the moniker GTX.

There are now two 260M parts. This can be confusing, so remember the moniker: GTS. That is the new 40nm part. Interestingly, its memory is clocked slower, it has less shaders, and only a 128-bit bus, not 256-bit.

Anyway, back to the OP:
Sorry, but no new information as yet. nVidia have announced two 40nm desktop parts, specifically for OEM's: the G210 and G220. It seems all their 40nm announcements are just that: a paper release.

Originally posted by: rstove02 original poster
Their claims of twice the GPU power for half the power load piqued my interest.

From the above link: http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=18814

Using a 40nm fabrication process and a refined GT200 architecture, NVIDIA's managed to lower the power use of each of the new GPUs, and without going into detail , NVIDIA reckons we'll see double the performance whilst consuming up to 50 per cent less idle power when compared to G100M-series parts.

This leads me to believe that the GTX260 (G92b, 55nm, 128shaders, higher memory clock 1900MHz) will be faster than the newly announced GTS260 (GT200, 40nm, 112shaders, lower memory clock 1800MHz), so for now you'll have to stick to 55nm to get the best performance outright.

 

[rstove02]

Did not know of the 260m model GTS/GTX overlap. Henrah is correct in that I was referencing the upcoming series of 200m chipsets that are built on the 40nm parts for use in laptops that both a high performance to watt ratio and that the max wattage is less than 40 watts.

The new models in question I was referencing are : G210M GT230M GT240M GTS250M GTS260M.