The funny thing is Nvidia cut the power down on a full GF100 chip. it looks like all those extra Fermi chips that made the bad yield pile made the 480M pile.
Mobile chips have traditionally been less powerful than their desktop counterparts with their same name, which makes sense. There's no way to fit an effective cooling system for a the desktop Fermi card in a laptop.
Mobile chips have traditionally been less powerful than their desktop counterparts with their same name, which makes sense. There's no way to fit an effective cooling system for a the desktop Fermi card in a laptop.
But the Fermi laptop chip is a GF100 chip... It is not a special spin it is a broken down disabled bad desktop GTX 480 chip for the most part.
Brian Burke, Senior Nvidia PR
GeForce GTX 480M GPUs are based on the Fermi architecture. In fact, GeForce GTX 480M uses the same chip as the Desktop GF100. It is customized to fit into the notebook thermal budget, with tweaks to the cores and clocks to fit into the TGP envelope of notebooks.
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Just because you can, does not necessarily mean you should. If I sit this thing on my lap, am I going to go sterile?
Come on, somebody bite!
Perhaps we should just extend it to an annoyance filter and add in on it as well.
But the Fermi laptop chip is a GF100 chip... It is not a special spin it is a broken down disabled bad desktop GTX 480 chip for the most part.
Brian Burke, Senior Nvidia PR