So apparently nVidia's scamming people with their mobile GPU nomenclature, as the supposedly mobile version of the GTX280, the GTX280M, is in name only, and is actually the G92b core (a die shrink of the G92 core that debuted with the 8800GT), with less measured GPU power than the 8800GTS 512MB (the G92 version of the GTS).

Still, there's nothing wrong with that chipset as a laptop option.  Kind of a shitty way to boost sales though by confusing the consumer with shady naming conventions.  I've always been a bigger fan of the way ATI tends to name their cards.

No, it's a decent chipset, but they probably should have called it a GTX250M at best, (the GTX250 is a G92b-based desktop card)

It's really stupid that Nvidia would rehash their GPU line ups to such levels. Especially given how because of it, Nvidia's GPU performance on laptops has gained at the most 10% of performance in the past two years while their desktop GPU options have gone up much farther.

Uh...since when do people expect the mobile version of a GPU to perform accordingly to a desktop GPU?  This has been around forever, nothing new.

it is really bizzare why nvidia would change the name so radically, yet there is no 'real' difference in design.

" So apparently nVidia's scamming people with their mobile GPU nomenclature, as the supposedly mobile version of the GTX280, the GTX280M, is in name only, and is actually the G92b core (a die shrink of the G92 core that debuted with the 8800GT), with less measured GPU power than the 8800GTS 512MB (the G92 version of the GTS).

I figured maybe anybody in the laptop market would like to know.

Source: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-280m,2353.html

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Lol do you even know how compact Laptop GPU's are? this is an amazing chipset.

The reason anyone would buy a laptop for gaming escapes me.