NVIDIA Launches GeForce 700M Mobile GPUs With Improved Power Management 35
MojoKid writes "Every year, AMD and NVIDIA re-brand their GPU product lines, regardless of whether the underlying hardware has changed. This annual maneuver is a sop to OEMs, who like yearly refreshes and higher numbers. The big introduction NVIDIA is making this year is what it calls GPU Boost 2.0. When NVIDIA launched the GTX Titan in February, it discussed a new iteration of GPU Boost technology that measured GPU temperature rather than estimating TDP. This new approach gave NVIDIA finer-grained control over clock speeds and thermal thresholds, thereby allowing for better dynamic overclocking. That technology is coming to the GeForce 700M mobile family. In notebooks, GPU Boost 2.0 is a combination of thermal and application monitoring. GPU Boost 2.0 is designed to reflect an important fact of 3D gaming — no two applications use the same amount of power. The variance can be significant, even within the same game. It's therefore possible for the GPU to adjust clocks dynamically in order to maximize frame rates. Put the two together, and NVIDIA believes it can substantially improve FPS speeds without compromising thermals or electrical safe operating margins."
Re:Whats with the weird garbled text on slashdot? (Score:4, Insightful)
It's not every post... but it's nasty.
It's an april fools joke where they used the ROT13 "cypher" (replacement cypher where each letter is replaced by a letter 13 increments down the 26-letter english alphabet) on the posts. It's received quite a bit of "backlash" (bitching by people who can't be bothered to click twice to read the original post in english) which may explain why you're seeing this normal summary here.
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April fools is the LEAST funny day on the internet. Most of the everyday Slashdot stories are jokes already with their blatant typos and flat out wrong headlines.
Re:Whats with the weird garbled text on slashdot? (Score:4, Insightful)
bitching by people who can't be bothered to click twice to read the original post in english
That'd be fine, if you could do it from the front page. Instead of being able to skim summaries and decide whether or not to go in and check out the comments (or even see if you want to read the article), you have to click to go to the story's page, thus leaving the front page, and then click for the translation. Or run a script that automatically deciphers the text. You can be an apologist for this worthless April Fool's joke if you'd like, but the fact of the matter is it actually made using the site more difficult, and wasn't even funny to begin with.
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oh shut the fuck up. Who gives a shit? It's one goddamn day of retarded levity that in a divided shit-talking world, everybody can have something in common.
Maybe you need some new pretty pink panties, because yours are on too fucking tight.
Re:Whats with the weird garbled text on slashdot? (Score:4, Informative)
Every year, The Slashdot editors go on vacation at the beginning of April.
In place of news, scripts search the web for bad jokes, theonion articles or random text, and post them as news.
Most readers take the day off, and hope that by the evening, the editors are sacked and the site is returned to normal.
Oh, great... (Score:5, Funny)
now it's rot26. When is this bullshit going to end?
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Re:Oh, great... (Score:4, Interesting)
now it's rot26. When is this bullshit going to end?
Haha oh man I wish I had mod points right now. Although my favorite cyper is still the wrong-homekeys cypher. I nrbrt noyivr iy unyil I"m fonr yupinh.
Nvidia seems to screw you over: slower + worse (Score:5, Informative)
The GT 730M and 735M aren't rebadged GT 600M parts, but they may actually be slower than the cards they are replacing. The GT 740M and 750M are rebadged GT 640/650 cards with higher core clocks and GPU Boost, but less memory bandwidth as well.
So some worth buying, but not if you want something faster or with better memory access bandwidth.
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I've done enough testing of "new" power saving for mobile parts from Nvidia.. I had enough fun the three times the GeForce 8600M killed my laptop's motherboard. (With corresponding warranty replacement.).
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A lot of laptops come with an nvidia and an Intel GPU. The Intel being used for desktop rendering to save juice. It would be cooler if nvidia worked in the direction of making laptops that utilize them to not need a competing companies chip to be efficient.
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Well current Intel video hardware is part of the CPU itself nowadays (at least for Core i3/i5/i7 parts, lower end parts I'd have to double check). There's nothing Nivida can do that would make running two chips (their GPU and Intel's CPU/GPU combo chip) more power efficient than only running only one of those two when only one's needed.
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they don't need competing companies chip to be efficient.. but sometimes you get the competing chip wanted you it or not.
of course the solution "should" be that the built in chip would be effective enough. but intel promises every year that in two years you will not need nvidia - and they have been promising that for about a decade now.
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Maybe you want something that uses less power. Speed is not the only factor.
flops per watt comsumtion (Score:2)
Mining (Score:3)
But the question is: can it mine bitcoins better than AMDs? :) ... sorry, i was missing the daily bitcoin article today ...
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Finally, Hollywood is vindicated (Score:3)
A million stupid ass Hollywood movies have finally been vindicated. At long last, a software hack will be able to set the laptop on fire.
The 730 kicks ass (Score:1)
I wish they'd bring VGX to Mobile (Score:1)