NVIDIA GeForce 800M market analysis

In the PC market is experiencing the winter now, the game notebook market has picked up the trend, especially thin and light high-performance products, is being more and more users concerned and accepted. Although Intel's core graphics performance has improved significantly, AMD's APU is also constantly upgraded, but in the eyes of many laptop users, Core i5 processor with NVIDIA high-end alone is the best game solution.

Recently, NVIDIA released the new GeForce 800M series graphics card, which has attracted the attention of the new Maxwell architecture. Counting on the GeForce 820M, which was listed earlier, the new series of GPU models have up to eight models, covering everything from low-end to high-end coverage, giving OEMs a wealth of choices. In addition, NVIDIA added Battery Boost technology to the new line of GPUs to further reduce power consumption. Of course, every new generation of GeForce mobile platform is accustomed to "new with the old", so you have to carefully distinguish when selecting products. Starting from the GeForce 800M series, only GTX, a small model, will be canceled. NVIDIA believes that the performance requirements of mobile platforms in the future are two-tiered. The GTX series represents high performance, while the GTX-free models are suitable for other models, especially thin and light notebooks.

GeForce 820M/830M/840M is the mainstream performance level, of which 830M and 840M use the Maxwell architecture, while the 820M uses the older Fermi architecture for low-end notebook products. The processor with 820M is generally an Intel Celeron processor, and the price is about 3,000 yuan. For example, the Aspire E1-410G that Acer has just released is such a product. 830M and 840M are the main models of NVIDIA's mass market in the future, and its official competitive platforms are Intel HD 4400 and Iris Pro.

For example, the combined performance of the Core i5 4210U+HD4400 is only one-third that of the Core i5 4210U+840M, but the power consumption is very close. Comparing with Intel's Iris core, 840M has a huge power consumption advantage and doubles its performance. Of course, since the CPU has the absolute right to speak on the notebook platform, Intel will push its own core graphics card in the future. Only when the performance is insufficient, will it call for significant support. This also requires NVIDIA to work harder on the performance of the product.

GeForce GTX is a high-performance product series. The top 880M is an upgraded version of the previous generation GTX 780M. The core and specifications are basically the same, and the performance enhancement should not be obvious. It needs further evaluation of data validation. It is worth noting that there are two versions of the 860M. One is to use the Kepler architecture and the other is to use the latest Maxwell architecture. The performance gap should also be small. According to the specification and model, we believe that the GeForce GTX 860M will be the most popular game GPU model and will be widely adopted by PC manufacturers.

Dell Alienware, Asustek and MSI have already introduced models using the 880M, and the Lenovo Y50, which has attracted much attention from the market, has adopted the GeForce GTX 860M, which is expected to be introduced to the market in May. The Y50 is also the main model of Lenovo's 2014 Shushi promotion. Battery Boost is actually a driving technology that allows the game to lock this value when it reaches a smooth FPS condition and avoid unnecessary waste of power. For consumer electronics products, in principle, buying a new one does not buy an old one. The GeForce 800M will definitely become the new selling point for notebook products in 2014.