What is the fastest laptop graphics you can buy? Well, from the image to the right you could easily guess that it is the Nvidia GeForce GTX 480M. However, no one seems to have one just yet for testing, until now.
Anandtech has posted a review of AVADirect’s Clevo W880CU with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 480M. But what makes the 480M special? From the article:
NVIDIA’s GTX 480M uses the same cut-down—but still Fermi—core found in desktop GeForce GTX 465 cards. That means 352 of NVIDIA’s “CUDA cores” and a 256-bit memory bus connected to GDDR5 memory. The difference is that while the GTX 465 only gets 1GB of GDDR5, the GTX 480M gets a full 2GB in our review notebook. Clock speeds aren’t as comparable, though, with the 480M’s clock speed down from the GTX 465’s 607 MHz to just 425 MHz. The shader clocks get cut down, too, dropping from 1.2 GHz to 800 MHz. Probably the most alarming drop is the GDDR5: running at 3.2 GHz on the desktop card, the 480M has its effective speed cut to just 2.4 GHz, the lowest speed we’ve ever seen on GDDR5 and actually a slower effective clock speed than the GDDR3 on the desktop GeForce GTX 285!
Now you know the specs, but how does it perform? Hit the link below to find out.
via : Fermi Goes Mobile: AVADirect’s Clevo W880CU with GTX 480M @ Anandtech
