Nvidia has launched the latest mobile graphics processing units (GPUs), the Nvidia 8600M and 8400M . The company announced that its mobile DirectX 10 lineup consists of the GeForce 8600M GT, 8600M GS, 8400M GT, 8400M GS, 8400M G. Nvidia claims that the 8600M and 8400M GPUs are based on the world’s fastest, GeForce 8 series of graphics processors, which are targeted at the newly evolved notebook PC market segment.
Nvidia’s 8600M and 8400M GPUs help new generation of notebook PCs, which deliver the ultimate visual experience for Windows Vista, DirectX 10 games, HD movies, and popular applications like Adobe Acrobat, and Microsoft Live Maps. The new GPUs are featured with unified architecture, which delivers up to twice the performance of previous generation GPUs for Windows Vista, DirectX 10 games, and mainstream applications; revolutionary PureVideo HD video processing engine for ultimate HD DVD/Blu-ray/HD playback. Nvidia PowerMizer technology intelligently balances the user’s need for longer battery life as well as performance.
Nvidia’s GeForce 8600M GT is the only mobile DirectX 10 product , which has 32 stream processors clocked at 950 Mhz. NVIDIA clocks the GeForce 8600M GT clock at 475 MHz and pairs it with 1.4 GHz memory on a 128-bit memory interface. Notebook manufacturers are free to equip the GeForce 8600M GT with up to 512MB of video memory. While the GeForce 8600M GS has half the stream processors as its GT counterpart. NVIDIA clocks the stream processors at 1.2 GHz to make up for having less shader power. The GeForce 8400M GT has same features like the 8600M GS. The GeForce 8600M GS and the 8400M GT have up to 12MB of video memory on a 128-bit interface.
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Via: Digit Times
