NVIDIA Unveils GeForce Go 6800, The NV41M
NVIDIA Corp. unveiled Monday its latest mobile graphics chip GeForce Go 6800 that shares architecture with the company’s premier desktop graphics family and brings new performance heights to the segment of desktop replacement notebooks.
Source: X-Bit LabsThe GeForce Go 6800 is a specially-designed code-named NV41M flavour of the desktop GeForce 6800 graphics processor made using 0.13 micron process technology at IBM’s East Fishkill facility. The new mobile chip aimed at DTR laptops has 12 pixel pipelines, 5 vertex pipelines and features either 128- or 256-bit DDR or GDDR3 memory interface. NVIDIA will ship a number of the GeForce 6800 Go versions: with GPU clock-speeds vary from 275MHz to 450MHz and memory frequencies differ from 400MHz to 600MHz. The NVIDIA GeForce 6800-series of chips unveiled in mid-April are the company’s flagship products in the GeForce 6-series of graphics processors. The new series of NVIDIA’s graphics processors is the company’s second generation lineup of DirectX 9.0-compatible offerings that greatly leverage the feature-set of NVIDIA GeForce FX graphics chips and brings important additional capabilities, such as Shader Model 3.0, as well as great performance improvements over the previous generation hardware. The GeForce Go 6800 builds-in PureVideo, a logic intended to boost performance and quality of video on notebooks. It is unclear, however, whether PureVideo has anything to do with NVIDIA’s highly-acclaimed GeForce 6 programmable video processor. Additionally, NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 features PowerMizer 5.0 technology to reduce power consumption of the GPU; however, actual power consumption figures are unclear. NVIDIA’s NV41M, unlike the original NV40 chip, features native PCI Express interconnection.
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