Today’s news from Dell shouldn’t come as any surprise for notebook gaming enthusiasts. Dell officially announced the availability of dual nVidia GeForce 8800M GTX video cards (2 x 512MB) with nVidia SLI for the XPS M1730 and XPS M1730 World of Warcraft edition notebooks.
Dell claims the XPS M1730 laptop configured with dual GeForce 8800M GTX is capable of producing a 3DMark06 score of up to a 13,500 3DMarks … a 49 percent improvement over dual nVidia Geforce 8700M GT SLI technology.
In short, this latest dual graphics card option delivers stunning performance even for demanding games like Crysis and BioShock.
While this might sound like bitter news for people who already purchased the XPS M1730, Dell has another surprise in store. Dell will offer a “graphics upgrade program” for customers with existing XPS M1730 and XPS M1730 World of Warcraft edition laptops!
New customers can configure the XPS M1730 with dual 512MB GeForce 8800M GTX cards for an additional $700. Details on the upgrade program will be available soon.
Of course, Dell is not the first notebook manufacturer to offer dual 8800M GTX video cards. Sager was first to the market with the release of the NP9262 with dual 8800M GTX cards last year.
Source: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4225
We’ve heard that Dell is going to be one of the first to launch the highly anticipated Geforce 8800 GO card and that Dell XPS will be the first notebook to have it.
This will be a 17 inch notebook and its highly likely that it will have the new Extreme edition CPU from Intel but of course it will be available with another CPUs as well.
Nvidia will finally offer something faster than 8600 mobile series and we believe that a piece of mobile market really wants something like that.
A user with nick jbizzler posted this post at forum.notebookreview.com:
I’m sure this works for other models, but if you goto the ASUS download site, find the G1S, and download the VGA drivers, extract it, and open nvam.inf, you’ll find this line:
NVIDIA_G84.DEV_0409.1 = “NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GS”
Now, I know we’ve seen this before, but specifically, this is an ASUS driver! That means we could see it in a C90S! I think it’s very likely 8800M GS is an old internal name for the 8700M GT, but either way, it’s good news.
Goto clevo.com.tw, and download the M570RU/M575RU manual. Here’s what it says:
NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT
NB8E-SE Modular
512MB DDR3 Video Ram On Board
PCI-Express * 16
MS DirectX® 10.0 compatible
MXM-III
Supports HDCP
NB8E-SE is the codename we’ve been seeing for the 8800M GS, and spec-wise they fall around the same category.
WHILE THE ORIGINAL G80 chip was a monster and consumed over 100 watts of power, Nvidia decided to mark this summer with its NB8E chip, a re-spin of the original G80 that will address the enthusiast notebook segment.
In order to fit the power envelope, lots of changes have been made, from the way the chip is manufactured to the functional units themselves. Even though these cuts will decrease 3D performance when compared to the desktop, this will be a most powerful chip for notebook market. Currently in roadmaps we have seen somewhere between Croatia and Taiwan, NB8E should come to market as NB8E-GTX, NB8E-GT and NB8E-SE. These codenames will probably end as GeForce 8800M GTX, 8800M GT and 8800M GS.
For the end, here’s a teaser. For dual-PCB 7950GX2, Nvidia used G71M, mobile version of its ultra-successful G71 (7900) chip. Guess what becomes a possibility if the G80 is packed in 22W+?
