For those who are interested or curious.
*Has to do with laptops*
A bit of background info - With the release of the Santa Rosa chipset (Intel raised the FSB of the mobile C2D to 800Mhz), nVidia released it's line of DX10 GPUs, the 8600 and 8400. The 8600m GT is currently the most powerful DX10 card out right now, but still considerably weaker than the Go 7950 GTX. NVidia's plan for a mobile 8800 card didn't work out so well; the original G80 chip consumed massive amounts of power and basically ran too hot - I think it melted the notebook mobos.
Here it is!
List of nVidia's Mobility GPUs (Note that the "enthusiast" series i.e. 8800 will be out this summer)
They're most likely going to be found exclusively on 17"+ notebooks. There's a possibility that they could be on 15.4", but highly unlikely - too much heat.
ATI seriously needs to get their act together. The only Mobility Radeon GPUs I see frequently in most laptops are the X1400, X1600, and X1700 - none of which are in the top tier of notebook GPUs which is pretty much dominated by nVidia atm. The X1800 and X1900, their only high end mobility Radeons, are extremely rare. And ATI still hasn't released any laptop DX10 GPUs for consumers.
*Has to do with laptops*
A bit of background info - With the release of the Santa Rosa chipset (Intel raised the FSB of the mobile C2D to 800Mhz), nVidia released it's line of DX10 GPUs, the 8600 and 8400. The 8600m GT is currently the most powerful DX10 card out right now, but still considerably weaker than the Go 7950 GTX. NVidia's plan for a mobile 8800 card didn't work out so well; the original G80 chip consumed massive amounts of power and basically ran too hot - I think it melted the notebook mobos.
Here it is!
List of nVidia's Mobility GPUs (Note that the "enthusiast" series i.e. 8800 will be out this summer)
They're most likely going to be found exclusively on 17"+ notebooks. There's a possibility that they could be on 15.4", but highly unlikely - too much heat.
ATI seriously needs to get their act together. The only Mobility Radeon GPUs I see frequently in most laptops are the X1400, X1600, and X1700 - none of which are in the top tier of notebook GPUs which is pretty much dominated by nVidia atm. The X1800 and X1900, their only high end mobility Radeons, are extremely rare. And ATI still hasn't released any laptop DX10 GPUs for consumers.