Nvidia’s new mobile graphics chipset is about ready to make its splash and it looks like a doozy: 12 pixel pipelines and five vertex pipelines in the new GeForce GO 6800 put it on par with middle- to high-end desktop cards. Strangely, the first GO 6800 chips won’t use Nvidia’s modular MXM standard, but Trusted Reviews is reporting that laptops using the PCI Express-based standard should be shipping in December or January (although there probably won’t be retail MXM replacement cards for another year, so it’s not that useful at the moment, really).
There’s even talk that a high-end desktop replacement laptop might do a dual-card SLI solution, says Nvidia. No one has announced one, but it’s apparently technically feasible. If I had time for LAN parties these days, I would so be all over a laptop.
nVidia GeForce GO 6800 – Mobile Graphics Chipset [TrustedReviews]
