NVIDIA 40nm mobile GPU lineup unveiled

VR Zone published a table that outlines NVIDIA's plans for the mobile graphics market. In the first half of this year NVIDIA will introduce a mix of 55nm and 65nm notebook GPUs. The enthusiast market will get the G92b and G94b, while the G96b will be targeted at the performance market. For the mainstream notebook market NVIDIA will introduce new G98 and G98b cards.

In the second half of 2009 NVIDIA will transition its mobile GPUs to the 40nm process. The enthusiast market will get the GT212 and GT215, performance market will get the GT216 and the mainstream market will receive GT218 chips.

Nvidia is going to class their mobile GPUs as N10x this year and the confusing part is that it could be G9x based or GT21x based. However, the process technology will show which GPU architecture they belong to. Nvidia will transit all the G9x based mobile GPUs from 65nm to 55nm by quarter and it will be denoted by the suffix "1" behind their codename except for N10M GE1 which is still 65nm based. As for their marketing names, Nvidia is going to call them GeForce GTX 180M/170M, GTS 160M, GT 130M/120M, G 110M/105M.

Segment	2008	H1 2009	H2 2009
Enthusiast	NB9E (65nm) GTX - G92 GT, GS, GE - G94	N10E (55nm) GTX1 - G92b GT1 - G94b	N10E (40nm) GTX - GT212 GT, GS, GE - GT215
Performance	NB9P (65nm) GT, GS, GE2, GV - G96	N10P (55nm) GE1 - G96b	N10P (40nm) GS, NS, GE, GLM - GT216
Mainstream	NB9M (65nm) GS, GE - G98	N10M (55/65nm) GS1 - G98b GE1 - G98	N10M (40nm) GS, GE - GT218