Thursday, February 26, 2009

GeForce GTX 280M


If anything extraordinary will happen, next week, and if more precise, on Tuesday March 4, NVIDIA will officially present its most powerful mobile GPU - GeForce GTX280M. Apparently, it's just a "beast", and although the test results from independent sources yet, there is every reason to believe that in the words of NVIDIA lot of truth.

This map is based on 55 nm core of G92b and has 192 processor cores CUDA. Its graphics core and shader unit works at a frequency of 585 MHz and 1463 respectively. Site uses 256-bit bus and boasts 1 GB of VRAM GDDR3. The frequency of video RAM (VRAM) 950 MHz. It should be noted that the GeForce 280M supports PhysX, SLI and Hybrid SLI. According to NVIDIA, on average, this GPU is 20% more powerful than the GeForce 9800M GTX. Remember that at the moment, the latter model is the most powerful among all the mobile graphics cards from NVIDIA. In some games such as Crysis, Call of Duty, World At War, Crysis Warhead, World in Conflict, and Mirror's Edge, the gap in performance between the GeForce 280M and GeForce 9800M GTX is 50% or even higher. According to NVIDIA, it is a merit of CUDA technology and the Graphics Plus.

In addition to GeForce 280M, on Tuesday announced two more NVIDIA GPU - GTX260M and GTS 160M.