NVIDIA GeForce 400M 'Fermi' Mobile GPUs Revealed

"After sifting through more information from OEMs and small system integrators than I care to remember, a few things have become abundantly clear. Both ATI and NVIDIA cut down the specifications of their desktop cards in order to make them more palatable for use in notebooks so don’t expect desktop-like performance from any notebook GPU. The main difference between the 400-series and the HD 5000-series is just how MUCH was cut; particularly from the high-end cards. The GTX 480M holds some semblance of the desktop card but the HD 5870 is a shadow of its former self in mobile form. This circumcision of the high-end ATI card’s performance means NVIDIA has been able to line up their GTX 460M as its equal in performance and integration price. At this point we are a bit less clear as to where the rest of the 400M lineup stand in relation to their competition but an arbitrary “40% faster than the 300M-series” was mentioned in the press material."