Nvidia touts record design wins for Sandy Bridge PCs

[Wreckage]

http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/20135

Wow I thought Sandy Bridge was supposed to hurt NVIDIA not help them.

The spotlight may be on Intel with the upcoming Sandy Bridge launch, but Nvidia wants in on the action, too. This morning, the firm announced that a "record" 200 upcoming PCs will ship with both Sandy Bridge CPUs and Nvidia graphics processors next year. Those 200 design wins purportedly include systems by Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Sony, and Toshiba, among others.

Today's announcement includes a bunch of quotes from PC vendors emphasizing the importance of discrete graphics, especially in notebooks.

 

[Seero]

You are slow on news


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[OCGuy]

You are slow on news

Completely unnecessary thread crap, the linked article is dated today.

 

[Barfo]

I don't recall seeing a similar announcement when the last generation of Intel chips came out, so why is Nvidia so clearly on the offensive this time? Perhaps those early Sandy Bridge benchmarks we saw this summer include a few clues—namely, the apparently excellent performance of the integrated graphics component, which had no problem keeping up with a discrete Radeon HD 5450.
In short, I think Sandy Bridge is about to raise the bar of what's expected in terms of integrated graphics, and that could in turn make discrete solutions—be they from Nvidia or AMD—less appealing. As an example, many of the Optimus-powered notebooks we've seen recently feature Nvidia's very lowest-end graphics processors, and those are exactly the kind Sandy Bridge will be bumping up against. If Nvidia has indeed scored a record number of design wins, though, perhaps PC vendors see things differently.

:hmm:

 

[exar333]

:hmm:

I will be picking-up a SB-based laptop early next year to replace my aging C2D laptop. To be honest, it has been amazing the life I got from my 2.4ghz C2D Sony Vaio purchased 3-4 years ago. It is still a great laptop, but I want something with a good GPU to do some light gaming and play BDs as well. With a GPU on-die plus discrete, these should have great power capabilities, and SB is supposed to be better at power management than existing i3/i5/i7 M models. Eagerly awaiting these reviews...

 

[Genx87]

Honestly, I make the purchases here for the company. I havent purchased a laptop in 3 years except my own ( ) that isnt powered by an Intel integrated GPU.

Whether SandyBridge brings up graphics performance to ultra low end discrete graphics means so little to me it isnt even on the radar. All I need it to do is power the 2d interfaces of win7 and office.

 

[Lonyo]

Completely unnecessary thread crap, the linked article is dated today.

Imagine if there had been another article containing the same thing.
Imagine if said story was from a week ago.
Imagine if a thread had been made about that article.
Imagine if the creator of that thread had drawn attention to the 200 Sandy Bridge design wins element of the article.
Imagine if the creator of that thread was Wreckage.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2126393&highlight=design+wins

Oh look.

He could have just bumped his own thread.

 

[Wreckage]

Imagine if there had been another article containing the same thing.
Imagine if said story was from a week ago.
Imagine if a thread had been made about that article.
Imagine if the creator of that thread had drawn attention to the 200 Sandy Bridge design wins element of the article.
Imagine if the creator of that thread was Wreckage.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2126393&highlight=design+wins

Oh look.

He could have just bumped his own thread.

That article was about High-end market share, this article is specific to and goes into detail about Sandy Bridge. There was already a poll over whether we should have 1 large thread discussing similar topics or separate threads to be more specific. The vote was in favor of separate threads.

 

[busydude]

Completely unnecessary thread crap, the linked article is dated today.

Like this one for example:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=30897023&postcount=3

Look in the mirror..

OT, its good that pc vendors understand the importance of discreet cards.. its a positive sign IMO.

 

[Kenmitch]

That article was about High-end market share, this article is specific to and goes into detail about Sandy Bridge. There was already a poll over whether we should have 1 large thread discussing similar topics or separate threads to be more specific. The vote was in favor of separate threads.

So Nvidia is now gonna bombard the market with low-end discrete GPU's with the Sandy Bridge lauch....Thanks for the clarification

 

[bigboxes]

Man, video has gone downhill lately. I thought the mods were supposed to reign in the fanboi crap.


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[Barfo]

So Nvidia is now gonna bombard the market with low-end discrete GPU's with the Sandy Bridge lauch....Thanks for the clarification

No, actually the article is about nvidia being in a panic because their low end GPUs will be worthless soon.

 

[Seero]

Completely unnecessary thread crap, the linked article is dated today.

Fact <> Crap, stating facts <> thread crap. This thread is more like a necro to me, but wreckage made it sounded like s/he never knew this before...

So Nvidia is now gonna bombard the market with low-end discrete GPU's with the Sandy Bridge lauch....Thanks for the clarification

I believe there are more to that. Conceptually, there is no need for Intel to contribute in this type of announcement because Nvidia or AMD, they are nothing more than a PCIe card. Have you ever heard "SB now featuring Sound Blaster, the ultimate addon for extreme sound?"

But then, may be it has something to do with the settlement.

Why Intel does it is irrelevant. The key is, SB will support SLI and is releasing a bunch of PCs with Nvidia as the discrete video card. This to me stated that the graphic core in SB suck. I now swing back to the purchase of CPU. Knowing that it suck on the graphic end, is it actually better to get I7? Wait the minute, if Fusion can have there graphic core featuring there discrete video card, can SB do the something on Nvidia card?

Now the talk begins.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Man, video has gone downhill lately. I thought the mods were supposed to reign in the fanboi crap.

Nah, youll just get infractions for saying anything about it


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[Kenmitch]

Just saying most of the pre-configured desktops with discrete graphics don't have high end GPU's in them. I doubt it'll change with Sandy Bridge.

 

[waffleironhead]

He could have just bumped his own thread.

Its been made abundantly clear in another thread that we as a forum, counter to established protocol and historical enforcement across the subforums of requiring discussion of a topic to continue in an already existing thread, are now free to start a new thread any time new information comes up.(to a point)


On topic, i sure hope these design wins translate in actual sales wins.

 

[Vdubchaos]

I just hope that Intel spent time putting their efforts into improving the actual CPU....I don't really care for onboard graphics in any way/shape or form.

 

[Seero]

I just hope that Intel spent time putting their efforts into improving the actual CPU....I don't really care for onboard graphics in any way/shape or form.

I agree

 

[cotak13]

People seems to miss one key point in the press release:

"David Lee, associate vice president of Acer's Mobile Computing Business Unit said: "Consumers are increasingly using their notebooks for content consumption and creation -- anytime and anywhere. GeForce graphics with Optimus turbocharge Acer notebooks with excellent performance when you need it, and longer battery life when you don't.""

I think we'll find that Optimus is what's driving the sales once the actual numbers comes out. It looks like most of the comments from their clients are about notebook.

In that sense it makes perfect sense. They are using nvidia for their high end laptops. The real impact of these wins will have to wait for results. We are still in a bad global economy situation and the integrated SB GPU is decent. It's anyone's guess what the outcome will be from these design wins.

 

[notty22]

I've been reading all the articles about the new 1155 performance boards, and I've noticed alot of partners have a model with a Nvidia nf200 for even better pci-e/sli gpu performance. It also allows the pci-e lanes for usb3, or those new ssd pci-e cards or whatever needs bandwith.
With the limitations of the pcie controller on the cpu.

nvmd

 

[exar333]

I just hope that Intel spent time putting their efforts into improving the actual CPU....I don't really care for onboard graphics in any way/shape or form.

Then you are not a mobile GPU power user and this product is not for you. For those who need GPU power available AND want good battery life when they don't need a powerful GPU this is an awesome product. SB is supposed to be 10-20% faster than Nehalem so I don't think you will be too disappointed with the performance.

 

[RavenSEAL]

More heat+5450 graphic power? No thanks.

 

[exar333]

More heat+5450 graphic power? No thanks.

That's completly wrong. What are you basing this on? These SB CPUs will have a TDP comperable with existing mobile CPUs AND this thermal use will include a 5450-class GPU. This is win-win.

 

[RavenSEAL]

That's completly wrong. What are you basing this on? These SB CPUs will have a TDP comperable with existing mobile CPUs AND this thermal use will include a 5450-class GPU. This is win-win.

What use does an IGP have embedded to the CPU for the "enthusiast" when all is going to do is create more heat?

 

[Idontcare]

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On topic, i sure hope these design wins translate in actual sales wins.

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