NVIDIA Raises the Graphics Performance Bar for Mainstream Notebooks

By DE Editors

NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) says it is pushing the pace for graphics performance in mainstream notebooks with the announcement of the GeForce 100M Series of graphics processing units (GPUs).

The NVIDIA GeForce 100M Series — which includes the GeForce G105M, the GeForce G110M, and the GeForce GT 130M GPUs — are said to meet the performance demands of visual computing applications, whether you're viewing or editing photos, finding directions, or watching HD.

The three new GeForce 100M Series GPUs represent a performance increase in their respective segments, says the company. The GeForce G105M is more than 55 percent faster than the previous NVDIA product in its segment, while the GeForce G110M is 35 percent faster than NVIDIA's previous mainstream GPU. The GeForce GT 130M is around 17 percent faster than its predecessor.

Like all NVIDIA GPUs, GeForce 100M Series GPUs deliver more than just fast frame rates with support for new advances in PhysX, stereoscopic 3D, and parallel computing. Through NVIDIA CUDA technology, GeForce 100M Series GPUs support the growing number of applications that use the power in the GPU's 8 to 32 processor cores for more than rendering pixels to the screen — from GPU-accelerated distributed computing applications, GPU-accelerated game physics, and GPU-accelerated video conversion.

The GeForce GT 130M will be available in the Lenovo IdeaPad Y650 and the GeForce G110M will be available in IdeaPad Y550 and IdeaPad Y450, which are scheduled to ship in March of 2009.

For details, visit NVIDIA.

For recent DE coverage, see “NVIDIA Providing Notebook Graphics Drivers,” (Jan. 2009).

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.