NVIDIA Launches New Site and Claim 600M GPUs are Twice as Efficient Discussion

[Amber Riippa]

NVIDIA has released comparison benchmark charts, outlining the differences between the old GeForce 500M notebook GPUs and the new 600M series. NVIDIA has also launched a new website version of GeForce.com, NVIDIA's community site for GeForce gamers and enthusiasts.

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[IKAS V]

Looking really good if they can deliver the goods, hopefully we see them sooner rather than later in smaller Ultrabooks like the Acer Timeline UM3.

[Inkjammer]

Given the GTX 460M can handle games like Star Wars Old Republic and Skyrim on high detail at 1920x1080... if the 640M can handle that then it's one hell of a card!

Granted, I have one in my Alienware M17X R3, but still. That's pretty impressive.

[crazy1]

Obviously, Nvidia marketing department is skewing the truth about the efficiency of Kepler. First off, consumers won't have a Kepler GPU in their laptop until April at the earliest. In April 2011, there were laptops supporting optimus that sport much better idle battery life than the M15X. Second, you didn't need a 45W Quad-core laptop a year ago to play Battlefield 3, hence even more battery life was possible to achieve. Their graphic does not represent the efficiency of Kepler at all, but of the laptops available in March of 2010, 2011, and 2012 that could play a certain game at 30 fps. If they would shift it to April of those years, idle battery life would look drastically different because sandy bridge and it's optimus supporting goodness would have been in laptops by April 2011. Trying to elude that Kepler is twice as efficient, by comparing two GPU's that support Optimus, but in the old laptop it is not utilized, is poor marketing. Lastly, when Nvidia said Kepler was twice as efficient, most people thought that meant against their 500 series, not their 400 series GPUs.

I commend Nvidia's engineers for creating a great product that is "more efficient", but what happened to honest marketing?

[Spiral Man]

... but what happened to honest marketing?

never been such thing.

[harmattan]

Twice as fast, 100% of the time, 20% of the time

Also, twice as fast in what? Gaming performance? Fan speed? Ability to drain your bank account?

This is like my work performance review last year where instead of writing strengths and development areas, I drew a simple bar chart. One bar was tall, labeled "Me"; the other bar was small, labeled "Other guys".

[Ishmum]

This is COMPLETELY out of this subject, but I would like to review my notebook on this site but It won't let me do that. It Says:
Ishmum, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.


Would a mod or admin please help me? Thanks, this site is great

[newbies]

The performance comparisons are believable on the left picture, but it's already past March 2012 and we don't have those GTX 6xx in hand yet!

[Vizzaka]

I am waiting for those ultrabooks with the 640 series GPU's, I am hoping for some portable power!

[emptybox]

Wow im suprised by the battery life differences, but seeing by now its april..