GeForce GTX 480M Is Official

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A few weeks ago, we saw Eurocom begin offering “GeForce GTX 480M” in their notebooks. There was little comment from them about it, and when we contacted NVIDIA’s press people regarding it, they ignored us. Now, the GeForce GTX 480M has been officially announced by NVIDIA. It’s their first Fermi-based mobile GPU and look for it to be the fastest mobile processor in the world.

As mentioned earlier, NVIDIA’s next-gen Fermi architecture will be the foundation for this mobile chip. It isn’t clear if this chip is a downclocked GF100 chip (which is used in the desktop GeForce GTX 480 card) or a new slower chip (a GF104). Without hearing anything, we’d expect it’s the former.

Here are all the stats for the new mobile card, provided by NVIDIA:

• 850MHz clockspeed
• 2GB GDDR5 VRAM
• 256-bit memory interface
• 1200MHz memory clock
• DirectX 11 and PhysX support
• Full 1080p HD and Blu-Ray support
• 352 CUDA Cores

Now with the GeForce GTX 480M core out there, expect all the rumors to start up about this core showing up in MacBook Pros. Of course, now that NVIDIA’s got a mobile GeForce 400 core out there, expect NVIDIA to be working on an awesome dual-core GeForce 400 card.

Nothing yet on pricing (although you’ll be buying it in a laptop anyway), but expect it to begin showing up in new laptops next month.