Nvidia has boosted its range of mobile GPU offerings. The fresh line of GPUs aimed at notebook computers are all members of the GeForce 700M series. There are five new mobile GPUs in total including the GeForce GT 750M, GeForce GT 745M, and GeForce GT 740M GPUs for the performance market segment, as a well as the GeForce GT 735M and GeForce GT 720M GPUs for the mainstream segment.
Nvidia claims that the whole of this new GeForce 700M range of mobile GPUs work to their best of their potential with “no effort or input from the notebook user”. The built-in technology automatically switches modes to preserve battery life, enhance 3D performance and maximise visual quality.
Rene Haas, vice president and general manager of the notebook business unit at NVIDIA said “There is an elegant simplicity to NVIDIA's GeForce 700M notebook technologies. You use your notebook how you want, and GeForce makes your experience awesome.”
The three GeForce 700M mobile GPU enhancing technologies, present within the whole of the new range, are:
- New NVIDIA GPU Boost™ 2.0 technology, which intelligently adjusts GPU clock speed to maximize graphics performance.
- NVIDIA® Optimus™ technology, which enables extra-long battery life by switching the GPU on and off so it runs only when needed.
- GeForce® Experience™ software, which adjusts in-game settings for the best performance and visual quality specific to a user's notebook and keeps GeForce drivers up to date.
We are treated to some vague performance numbers on Nvidia’s GeForce blog: “At Medium detail levels the 700M Kepler GPUs accelerate notebook performance greatly, resulting in up to 90 frames per second in StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, 65 frames per second in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, 66 frames per second in Batman: Arkham City, 48 frames per second in Battlefield 3, and 64 frames per second in Shogun 2: Total War. In comparison, Integrated Graphics Processors struggle to break into the double digits; a completely unplayable experience.”
The Nvidia GeForce blog also has an interesting interactive comparison showing the difference between the optimised GeForce experience and a “default experience”. We wrote about this click-and-go game optimising software when the first open beta was launched in late January.
The new Nvidia GeForce 700M GPUs are immediately available in new notebooks. Nvidia boasts that “every leading manufacturer will be introducing notebooks with GPU Boost 2.0 technology, including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba.”
