NVIDIA Introduces Desktop Chipset for Intel Processors
NVIDIA announced yesterday the GeForce 9400 and 9300 motherboard GPUs which offer desktop equivalents to the NVIDIA mobile chips adopted by Apple in their new notebooks:
These new mGPUs give NVIDIA a big advantage over other integrated graphics chips, said Dr. Jon Peddie of Jon Peddie Research. By doing so much parallel processing on a single chip, they can accelerate the new visual computing applications people are getting, and at a reasonable price. The GeForce 9400 and 9300 mGPUs set a new standard for what users should expect from todays more mainstream desktop systems.
It's not clear if this technology would find any use in future Apple Macs. Apple has traditionally based their iMac around the same chips and technology that power their notebook computers, while using server-class technology in their Mac Pros. In the past, Apple has not used Intel's "desktop" offerings.Top Rated Comments
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43 months ago
This is very cool - at least a slight improvement over integrated graphics as we know it.
43 months ago
Could an integrated NVIDIA graphics chip like this be even fathomably comparative to the low-end card in the iMac right now - the 2400XT?
43 months ago
Any integrated graphics chip from NVIDIA is still quantum leaps ahead of Intel's offerings over the past 2 years.
I wouldn't mind horribly if the low end iMacs had these and we saw the return to a $999 entry price point.
I wouldn't mind horribly if the low end iMacs had these and we saw the return to a $999 entry price point.
43 months ago
I hope to see one of these in a new Mac Mini coming out within the next month.
I also hope to see the iMac incorporating this, and dropping the price at the low-end (20") due to a lower component cost (single chip chipset vs. two chip chipset and discrete GPU with its own memory). Hopefully the higher specification iMac will still utilise a discrete GPU.
I also hope to see the iMac incorporating this, and dropping the price at the low-end (20") due to a lower component cost (single chip chipset vs. two chip chipset and discrete GPU with its own memory). Hopefully the higher specification iMac will still utilise a discrete GPU.
43 months ago
If the 9400 is half the speed of the 8600 GT in the old Macbook Pro then I'm pretty sure its about the same as the iMacs 2400XT.
Put this in the low end iMac and drop the price to $999 yes please.
Put this in the low end iMac and drop the price to $999 yes please.
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