NVidia's new 9M Series GPUs allow Hybrid SLI on Netbooks?

[ImIcarus]

Hey everyone! First time posting here.

I'm Icarus, I blog about computers mainly to help new comers. I love talking about them, and I saw this forum, so I decided to join in on the fun!

I also wanted to get some constructive criticism about what I write, so here's the one from today:


Today, NVidia announced their new 9M series GPUs for netbooks, which allows Hybrid SLI in netbooks!

That?s CRAZY!

That means, in future netbooks with NVidia 9M series GPUs, you have:

* two GPUs, one lower-power and one high-performance GPU
* the graphics power of Hybrid SLI
* the capabilities of all of the NVidia Forceware i.e. GeForce Boost and Hybrid Power
* Intel?s Pinetrail GPUs

You get all of that, and much, much more, all in a small, portable netbook!

I mean, that?s just crazy. That?s like having a desktop you can carry around with you. Literally.

With this much power, there?s not much that you can?t do on a netbook:

* media editing
* video encoding
* hardcore gaming
* watch HD movies

The list is endless. The possibilities are endless.

Now, when is NVidia debuting the 9M series of GPUs?

Well, I?m guessing they?re going to include the 9M series into their netbook platform, the NVidia ION as soon as their platform becomes more and more mainstream.

And when Intel debuts their Pinetrail series of netbook GPUs, the potential of the NVidia ION platform is infinite; limitless, to say the least.

So what do you guys think?

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[Forumpanda]

I think that it is some copy/paste marketing speak.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

As shitty and as much marketing as it is, Hybrid SLI might be a GOOD thing in a netbook.

My netbook (Cel M 900, 2GB DDR, Intel 915) cant play most 3d games. I'll try open arena soon but idk, even CS1.6 sucks on it.

 

[Qbah]

And why would I need SLi in a netbook? The Atom is a terribly slow CPU - regular flash content kills it. I know, I have one. It's useless for modern gaming too, somewhere where SLi could be useful. It is just very slow. HD movies are handled fine by a regular ION platform (that's a nV IGP 9400) so no need for SLi here, video encoding on a netbook is useless too... It will be painfully slow anyway compared to even a mid-range desktop with a standard Core 2 CPU.

I read a nice article about a Gateway 'netbook' today on SPCR. Has a 11" 1366x768 screen, a Core 2 Solo 1.6GHz ULV and it absolutely kills the Atom. If anything, that would be better for SLi (even though useless anyway imo). In general, I find SLi in Atom-based PCs completely useless.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Qbah
And why would I need SLi in a netbook? The Atom is a terribly slow CPU - regular flash content kills it. I know, I have one. It's useless for modern gaming too, somewhere where SLi could be useful. It is just very slow. HD movies are handled fine by a regular ION platform (that's a nV IGP 9400) so no need for SLi here, video encoding on a netbook is useless too... It will be painfully slow anyway compared to even a mid-range desktop with a standard Core 2 CPU.

I read a nice article about a Gateway 'netbook' today on SPCR. Has a 11" 1366x768 screen, a Core 2 Solo 1.6GHz ULV and it absolutely kills the Atom. If anything, that would be better for SLi (even though useless anyway imo). In general, I find SLi in Atom-based PCs completely useless.

i love the CULV notebooks. kinda wish acer would stick the better dual core processor in the 14" model though


i completely agree about gaming graphics in an atom based system. wtf is the point? great, i can run quake3 instead of GLquake. the thing that needs improvement on netbooks is video playing capability, and ion (along with next years intel product) already do that.

 

[ImIcarus]

ok... if it's just a copy/paste marketing thing, why am I responding right now...

It sounds good for people who blindingly say "SLI is awesome" when they heard the word SLI, but it won't do much seeing as you can't really do much on a netbook in terms of gaming or video editing...

Might just be NVidia's marketing strategy since they can't release their GT300's in time for AMD's RV870's? Even though they're both in two different industries?

 

[Fox5]

Maybe Apple will pick it up, their OpenCL initiative seems like it would benefit from this more so.

 

[MarcVenice]

I thought hybrid sli was going to be disabled in Windows 7, coz M$ can't gaurantee it works properly, and they don't want customers thinking it's Win 7 that's being crap?

Lotsa marketing talk indeed btw, or a Nvidia fanboy? I mean, video encoding on a Atom? lol ... Hardcore gaming? Watching HD movies on a 10" screen that can't even do 1280*720?

There's only very LITTLE you can do with a netbook, and very MUCH you CAN'T do. It's ideal for traveling, checking email, writing, browsing the web a little. Playing patience. But doing anything else is pretty much ruled out.

 

[ImIcarus]

Wow, I post a blog post I made, and I already get tons of people bashing me for marketing when all I want is some constructive criticism...

No, I'm not an NVidia fanboy, this is just a post on it... I want to get a "general" feel of what a netbook can do, because I honestly don't know how much a netbook can take. It's just a hypothesis in a stupid blog post I made. And all I want is constructive criticism. That's it...

I see your point though with how little netbooks can do.

 

[spittledip]

I think they are bashing you b/c your post is just "informational" without any analysis of the information. It reads like an infomercial. No critique, no real consideration of what the potential actually would be of such a thing, etc.

 

[alyarb]

it's not just that, but the pasted information simply states that the 9300 IGP supports hybrid-SLI. this has always been the case and there is no new info here. the fact that there are ION-based netbooks implementing the 9300 IGP does not change that. in fact, it kind of goes without saying that the IGP supports hybrid-SLI, but it does not imply in any way that it will bring more graphics performance to netbooks because that would require a secondary PCIe GPU.

Will we ever see a netbook with a discrete PCIe GPU, even if it can be 100% powered down? no, it just goes against every other design goal behind the netbook concept.

 

[Kakkoii]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
I thought hybrid sli was going to be disabled in Windows 7, coz M$ can't gaurantee it works properly, and they don't want customers thinking it's Win 7 that's being crap?

Lotsa marketing talk indeed btw, or a Nvidia fanboy? I mean, video encoding on a Atom? lol ... Hardcore gaming? Watching HD movies on a 10" screen that can't even do 1280*720?

There's only very LITTLE you can do with a netbook, and very MUCH you CAN'T do. It's ideal for traveling, checking email, writing, browsing the web a little. Playing patience. But doing anything else is pretty much ruled out.

Microsoft and Nvidia are pretty tight these days. So I doubt that would happen.