Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: toshiba, launches, its, satellite, into, orbit, with, nvidia | Themes: Business Notebooks
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Toshiba Worldwide
- 3. Positioning
- 4. GeForce Two Or More To Go
- 5. GeForce2 Go To Integration
- 6. Star Wars: Toshiba Satellite 2800-500 Vs. 2805-S402
- 7. Subwoofer For The Road
- 8. Satellite Power Management
- 9. Satellite Power Management, Continued
- 10. BIOS Vs. Setup-Program
- 11. Front View
- 12. Right View
- 13. Top View
- 14. Removing The Battery
4. GeForce Two Or More To Go
On February 12 2001 Nvidia and Toshiba announced the first notebook with the GeForce2Go.
This chip is used with the Toshiba Satellite 2805-S402 and Satellite 2800-500. Just two weeks later NVIDIA announced yet another two mobile chips, GeForce2Go 100 and 200, improving on the original design in many ways. So, it will be interesting to see how Toshiba reacts to the new GeForce2Go chipsets in future products.
| Geforce2 Go | Geforce2 Go 100 | Geforce2 Go 200 | Geforce2 MX | Geforce2 MX 200 | Geforce2 MX 400 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memory Interface | 128/64bitDDR 128/64bitSDR | 32bit DDR | 64bit DDR | 128/64bitSDR 64bit DDR | 64bit SDR 32bit DDR | 64bit DDR 128bt SDR |
| Memory Band-
width |
2.6 GB/sec | 1.3 GB/sec | 2.6 GB/sec | 2.7 GB/sec | 1.3 GB/sec | 2.7 GB/sec |
| Max Memory | 64 MB | 16 MB | 32 MB | 64 MB | 32 MB | 64 MB |
| Hardware Geometry | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| Twinview | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| Engine/
Memory Clock |
143/166 | 125/166 | 143/166 | 175/166 | 175/166 | 200/166 |
| Pixel per
second |
286M | 250M | 286M | 350M | 350M | 400M |
| Texels per
second |
576M | 500M | 576M | 700M | 700M | 800M |
The limited space on notebook motherboards always poses a challenge to component manufacturers. ATI, the leader in notebook graphics, offers one solution to this problem by selling its mobile VGA chips with embedded memory. Both the Geforce2Go 100 and 200 from NVIDIA benefit from a 45% reduction in size compared to the original GeForce2Go, which also frees up valuable real estate on the motherboard, and with its latest graphic chip, NVIDIA claims to use even less real estate than competing solutions with integrated memory.
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