NVIDIA 8700M GT Rendering Looks Better Than Xbox 360

NVIDIA has just released their new top of the line GeForce 8700M GT, just in time to remind you that no matter how cool your new MacBook Pro or Sony VAIO are, you are not the King of the Hill anymore.

Not only that: NVIDIA says that now your Xbox 360’s graphics have been officialy overtaken by a notebook GPU, as you can see in the gallery. The new 8700M GT has been first appeared into the Toshiba Dynabook Satellite WXW, which just got announced in Japan.

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The GeForce 8700M GT GPU, the newest and fastest GPU in the GeForce 8M series of notebook graphics processors, promises great DirectX 10 gaming performance, stunning Microsoft Windows Vista graphics, and HD DVD and Blu-ray video playback.

The GPU has been manufactured with the 80nm process and its GPU clock runs at 1,250MHz. The GPU features 32 Streaming Processors (SP), the same as the 8600M GT model. Memory clock is set at 800MHz, and its GDDR3 memory is 512MB.

The Nvidia GeForce 8M Series GPUs feature a new unified architecture that delivers up to a 70% performance improvement compared to previous generation GPUs for Windows Vista and other GPU enabled applications, according to Nvidia.

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Playing HD video on a notebook is a technical challenge alleviated by Nvidia PureVideo HD technology. This technology leverages the video processing engine in the GeForce 8M series GPUs for home-theater-quality playback of HD movie formats, including HD DVD, Blu-ray, and HD video downloads. The new video-processing engine performs 100% of the H.264 HD video decoding, freeing the CPU for other tasks and significantly reducing power consumption, heat and noise, noted the company.

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