The Nvidia 8600M and 8400M are the latest mobile graphics processing units (GPUs) to be launched worldwide by Nvidia.
The company says the 8600M and 8400M GPUs are based on the world's fastest, GeForce 8 series of graphics processors that are targeted at the newly evolved notebook PC market segment.
According to Nvidia, the 8600M and 8400M GPUs help power a whole new generation of notebook PCs that deliver the ultimate visual experience for Windows Vista, DirectX 10 games, HD movies, and popular applications like Adobe Acrobat, and Microsoft Live Maps.
The newest GPUs have features including: a new, extremely efficient, unified architecture that delivers up to twice the performance of previous generation GPUs for Windows Vista, DirectX 10 games, and mainstream applications; revolutionary PureVideo HD video processing engine for ultimate HD DVD/Blu-ray/HD playback; and Nvidia PowerMizer technology that intelligently balances the user's need for longer battery life as well as performance.
On this occasion, Rene Haas, General Manager of the Notebook GPU Business, Nvidia, said, "The new GeForce 8M series GPUs are ushering in the new generation of Vista notebook PCs. The new notebooks; with support for Windows Vista Premium, DirectX 10, and HD video playback, will help consumers enjoy the new era of visually rich content as it was meant to be experienced."
Meanwhile, the new 8600M and 8400M notebook GPUs, claimed to be the world's first to support DirectX 10, and to fully accelerate decoding of H.264 full HD movies, are now available from top PC makers such as HP, Toshiba, Acer, Samsung, and Asus, amongst others.
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im a desktop user and am generally very well aware of things to do with computers. now the thing is that im gonna be shifting to a notebook soon. i have all aspects covered exept for the fact that "how do notebook gpu(s) comapare to a desktop gpu".. obviously there will be a clear disadvantage, but the question is how much (taking similar gpus into consideration)
Actuallly, the performance trade off for the GPU itself isn't much. Its very similar from desktop to notebook.
The trade off is overall for the notebook components.
For example, on a desktop you have faster memory, faster hard disk drives, faster processors but on a laptop, you still have low speed HDDs, memory that is clocked low and processors that are made to conserver power.
I dont know about the new 8m series from this article but in my experience with previous generations, gaming experience on a notebook is quite comparable to a desktop in terms of similar GPUs (given other components are comparable)