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Fudzilla has it that next gen Nvidia mobile chips will be based on GT200, have DX 10.1 support, have GDDR5 and be built on 40nm process.

Before you get excited it is worth noting that the current G92b GTX280M will still be the fastes chip. This is because the chip, as fudzilla has claimed, will be maxed at 96 shaders.

Still at least its something new and which makes sense for mobile parts.

Links:

Fud 1
Fud 2
Fud 3

They say blogs are supposed to be addictive. Is it just me or am I not a junkie for this?
I’m a man with few words. I like to keep things small, tidy and straight to the point.
Sometimes cut corners, sometimes jump red lights, but that gave me 3 points on my license so I stopped doing that now.

Another thing about Blogs, where the heck is called a Blog? I’m assuming that its one of those gimmicky names like google and wiki. I can see why “Log” is in it but the “B”? If they just called it “Log” first thing comes to mind is the number “2″. he he.

I dont feel comfortable putting my life’s story onto a blog, chances are nobody will read it. But isnt that a point? Blogs – serving an e-shoulder to cry, confess and sooth on since 199x?

Been fiddling with my drivers again. I’ve decided to drop the 3 driver settings (quality/balance/performance). Instead the default settings for my drivers will be the same as nvidia in the the control panel, but the hidden stuff should make your games run better with no hit in IQ.

However I’ve decided that in the drop down menu, for laptop owners only, you can select your manufacturer and it will install the drivers to their specific settings. So far only the major ones are supported, but we’ll see.

Futuremark the guys who gave us the “marmite” 3D mark software has releases Peackeeper.
A Browser Benchmark tool to tell you which one will be fastest on your system.

Check it out

Remember my blog post here?
Will according to this the new chip will not be based on die shrink of GT200 but G92b (die shrink of G92 from 65nm to 55 nm). I don’t like this at all. This is seriously misleading consumers in thinking they are buying “new” architecture.

Intrestingly the chip device id was listed as a GTX180M whilst some of the newer ones listed the same device id as GTX280M. Sounds to me like nvidia balls up the GT200M chip and this was their solution?

Preety much finalised the code for it and ironed all bug (I hope).
All I need to do now is add the multiple languages and its good to go.
I’m planning to have more desktop support in the future with improved display modes than previous releases. Driver tweaks will remain the same for both mobile and desktop cards. However mobile and desktop will get different driver .dll. Something which takes full advantage of the new installer.

Some benchmarks for Vista SP1 vs SP 2 RC. You can find it by clicking HERE, all courtesy of tweaktown. I wasn’t expecting anything major but I am disappointed.

We can all dream, and I dream of the Asus W90. Its a laptop with a Mobility Radeon HD4870 x2, up to T9600, up to 6GB ram, upto 1TB gb HD, upto Bluray disk drive. All in all this makes me drool. No pricing announced or dates of when it will be released. Click onthis to gawp at it for yourself.

I’ve just noticed this on gta4.net. Easy to do yet cool to look at.
Give it a go.