New GeForce 400 series GPUs found in GeForce 259.47 drivers

Posted on Monday, August 30 2010 @ 14:14 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Microsoft has uploaded NVIDIA's GeForce 259.47 WHQL driver to the Windows Update site. Interestingly, this new release contains reference to over a dozen of forthcoming mainstream and budget GeForce 400 series graphics cards, with more than half of them being notebook parts:

- NVIDIA_DEV.0E23.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTS 455 "
- NVIDIA_DEV.0DC4.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 "
- NVIDIA_DEV.0DC5.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 "
- NVIDIA_DEV.0DC0.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 "
- NVIDIA_DEV.0DE1.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 "
- NVIDIA_DEV.0DE2.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 "
- NVIDIA_DEV.0E30.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M "
- NVIDIA_DEV.0DD1.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M "
- NVIDIA_DEV.0DD2.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 445M "
- NVIDIA_DEV.0DD3.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 435M "
- NVIDIA_DEV.0DF2.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 435M "
- NVIDIA_DEV.0DF0.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M "
- NVIDIA_DEV.0DF3.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M "
- NVIDIA_DEV.0DF1.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 420M "
- NVIDIA_DEV.0DEE.01 = "NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M "

The GeForce GTS 450 (GF106) is rumored to arrive in September, this chip has 192 shaders, 128-bit memory bus, a 783MHz GPU clockspeed and 1GB GDDR5 memory clocked at 3608MHz, according to the rumor mill. The GeForce GTX 460M is also expected in September, but details about the other parts on the list are slim.

Source: TC Mag

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Re: New GeForce 400 series GPUs found in GeForce 259.47 drivers
by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 31 2010 @ 7:09 CEST

Do you know anyone with a 480M in their laptop? The mobile 4xxM series is practically nothing but paper. You can barely get the chip in two models of PC's and even those are not "available" most of the time.

Time for Nvidia to step it up. And the pricing and availability have to be ready to compete as well.

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