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Nvidia may give Ultrabooks a major shot in the arm. The GPU maker is reportedly working on a version of Kepler designed specifically for Intel's new form factor for notebooks, which is great news if integrated graphics tend to make you sad. Details are fairly scarce, but the idea of a discrete next-generation GPU nestled inside a slim Ultrabook is certainly an intriguing proposition.
Asus and Acer are already on board, sources tell Fudzilla, though nothing has been officially confirmed.
"However, we stand tall by the new that Kepler gets to Ultrabooks this year," Fudzilla says. "This was confirmed by several industry sources."
There's a lot of buzz surrounding Nvidia's upcoming Kepler architecture. Early reports suggest Nvidia has a winner on its hands, though how a Kepler derivative would fare in an Ultrabook form factor with more demanding thermal requirements and expectations of above average battery life remains to be seen.
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dgrmouse
January 27, 2012 at 3:12pm
Since a pair of 580M boards performs worse than a single 560TI, I'm not terribly stoked about the possibility of a 620M sucking the life out of my notebook's battery. Show me some cool external boards using Thunderbolt, TV in/out, or even using some sort of (local) protocol like OnLive instead, please.
The Corrupted One
January 27, 2012 at 3:49pm
I had this idea with a APU based laptop that would connect and sync with a small midtower box, which would pipe in liquid cooling, more (customizable) storage, and a beefy CPU and GPU.
Doing what you say would be a step in the right direction, I want to be able to plug a 7990 into the thunderbolt port on an ultrabook and play Metro on max.
Nvidia GPU's don't like TF2, so I'm not interested.
