It's roughly a year since NVIDIA launched their GeForce Go 6800 Ultra GPU for notebooks. Over the course of the last year, notebooks have transitioned quickly from being a poor second fiddle for gaming, to some of the most desirable gaming rigs around. Mobile X700 parts have brought decent gaming quality into the mainstream, and the availability of notebooks sporting top-end X800 XT and 6800 Ultra graphics processors (as well as faster Pentium M processors) have put gaming notebooks almost on par with their desktop equivalents.
Today, we can perhaps truly say that a notebook is able to match the desktop, because we are looking at a mobile part based on the 7800 GTX. Well, perhaps this is the wrong way round - NVIDIA claims that its desktop part was based on its mobile development, hence the efficient power management on the desktop GTX.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/09/28/evesham_nvidia_7800/1.html
Today, we can perhaps truly say that a notebook is able to match the desktop, because we are looking at a mobile part based on the 7800 GTX. Well, perhaps this is the wrong way round - NVIDIA claims that its desktop part was based on its mobile development, hence the efficient power management on the desktop GTX.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/09/28/evesham_nvidia_7800/1.html