It looks like IFA isn’t entirely dominated by Android tablets and 3D TVs. At the event, NVIDIA took the time to announce a slew of new GeForce 400M GPUs. The new chips will be included in laptops from Acer, Asus, Dell, Toshiba, Samsung, and Lenovo, with more manufacturers to come.
The new 400M GPUs come in two varieties: GTX for “enthusiast users” and GT for “performance users.” There are two GTX chips, the GeForce GTX 470M and GTX 460M. There are five GT chips: GeForce GT 445M, GT 435M, GT 425M, GT 420M and GT 415M. All of them have Optimus built in to switch the GPU on and off when needed to conserve battery life. They will each also offer 3D playback, including NVIDIA 3DTV Play, so you can output your video to a compatible 3DTV and view movies or play games on the big screen.
These are the first laptop GPUs made by NVIDIA that use it’s Fermi architecture that’s been on desktop chips for a few months now. The results are pretty fantastic on desktops, and should be just as good on laptops. NVIDIA says it offers 5x faster upload speeds for HD video to Facebook and 10x better graphics performance for StarCraft II. I’d be inclined to believe those figures, better gaming performance from NVIDIA’s laptop GPUs is great, and will surely benefit many college gamers (or those who just prefer to have laptops). Now to wait for Apple to adopt the chips.
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