New 40nm GeForce 200M Series GPUs Announced

Although the GeForce GTX 200M series of mobile GPUs for laptops and notebooks was introduced by Nvidia quite some time ago already, they did not use actual chips of the GT200 desktop GPUs, but the older G92b GPUs.

This is going to change now though, with the introduction of true 40nm sized and DirectX 10.1 capable chips for notebooks: "The new cards are aimed for the entry level (G 210M), middle class (GT 230 and 240M) and beginning high-end class (GTS 250M and 260M).

Because of the smaller 40nm process, Nvidia was able to ramp up the shader count and clock rates and still maintain the same power envelope as the previous generation. Therefore, the performance of each class-member is higher than the previous model.

Nvidia published only some performance charts for the new entry level GPU - the Geforce G 210M, which is about 2x as fast as the old G 110M (according to Nvidia). This is achieved by the much higher clock rates of the G 210M."