NVIDIA's GPU in 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros is 30% More Efficient
Posted 04/13/2010 at 6:36pm
| by Seamus Bellamy
Did you hear the news? Mac|Life has a huge geek-crush on the new MacBook Pros released earlier today! While our love could very well wane once we get our grubby little mitts on a review unit, the latest iteration of Apple's indomitable laptop line has us swooning. Faster processors, wicked long battery life and those stainless steel, unibody good looks? Gimmie!
Rounding out this already impressive revision is Apple's implementation of NVIDIA's GeForce GT 330M graphic processor in the updated 15- and 17-inch models. If you take the time to head on over to 9to5Mac (and you'll be glad you did), you'll find that they've discovered the NVIDIA GPUs to be 30% more efficent than the processor they're replacing, and boast up to 512MB of dedicated video memory, 48 processing cores, and automatic switching from the MacBook's integrated graphics chip to the NVIDIA GPU when the graphics load dictates it to be neccesary.
In layman's terms, you'll be smoking fools in Modern Warfare 2 so fast, that you'll be wondering if a sniper was doing the heavy lifting for you--and let's be honest, we love it when the sniper does all the work.
