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More Reports of NVIDIA Graphics Chips in Next-Generation MacBook Pro

Looking at the specs and taking into consideration the numerous rumors of a retina display, Apple may have been forced to choose Nvidia over AMD.

It seems that maximum Displayport res on the Nvidia GT/GTX is larger than on the top of the line 7xxx series from AMD. With Displayport being one of the backbones to Thunderbolt and existing Displayport monitors, it could again infer the motivation of Apple to choose Nvidia over AMD.

Just some quick speculation...
 
Mr. Gates said:
Nice.

Better be 2 Gig's dedicated
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I see the new Asus G75 offers the GTX 660M with 2Gb and also the GTX 670M with 3GB. And an Ivy Bridge i7 3610QM. I wonder if the battery will last for 2 hours? :D Samsung also has a new 700 series but it has the GT 650M with 2 GB. Both are 17". Maybe Apple will offer something similar.
 
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Fact overview:
nVidia slaughters everything at whatever the level of performance GT 640m, 650m and 660m is targeting at. But at the top end, 7970m is unrivaled yet.
 
GREEN4U said:
I gave you an upvote but I don't really care if more people get into Macs. In fact, I'd rather they didn't. I like how Macs are still sparse - not like how everyone and their mother has an iPhone.
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Dunno where you live, but I'm hard pressed to see anyone use anything but a Mac here in Portland... as much as I love OS X, it's refreshing to see other technology now and again.
 
EFF NVidia

They are dead to me. Like Seagate and LaCie. No way I would risk my productivity on a company that has failed me more than once. If I upgrade, it will be to AMD only.
 
There is a good thread on this in the main forum section on here. The Nvidia GT 650m is a VERY good chip, it's a true Kepler? chip which is brand new next gen tech using cuda graphics cores. Google it, it's a hell of a performer and is considered high mid range! It is also faster then AMD chips in the same price bracket.

If this is a true rumour then it makes for a very powerful machine from Apple with Ivy Bridge as well and if they do make it thinner and lighter then no other computer will match it!

And the chip also has 2 gb of ddr3 ram. But according to some sites that is a bottleneck and you really want the ddr5 version. Fingers crossed...
 
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I'd rather have the option to choose upcoming Nvidia Quadro Kepler (2100m, 4100M) . That's why I am waiting for the HP or Lenovo high end refresh.

But Retina is cool.
 
apolloa said:
There is a good thread on this in the main forum section on here. The Nvidia GT 650m is a VERY good chip, it's a true Kepler? chip which is brand new next gen tech using cuda graphics cores. Google it, it's a hell of a performer and is considered high mid range! It is also faster then AMD chips in the same price bracket.

If this is a true rumour then it makes for a very powerful machine from Apple with Ivy Bridge as well and if they do make it thinner and lighter then no other computer will match it!

And the chip also has 2 gb of ddr3 ram. But according to some sites that is a bottleneck and you really want the ddr5 version. Fingers crossed...
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Indeed. And it would ideally have 2 GB of VRAM in order to utilize that potential retina display
 
This is a huge mistake. 600m chips are not Kepler, but simply re-branded Fermi, while 7000m chips are Southern Islands based. I hope this isn't true, as there's no reason why Apple would suddenly take a dive for the stupid.
 
reden said:
Dang, I really hope Apple also introduces Mac Pros at WWDC. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one that's been waiting for this update. I've been working off a MacBook Pro for almost a year now. Not that it isn't a great machine, but definitely miss having more horsepower. Need SATA 3 Mac Pro!
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Mac Pro is going away. Forever. And I think it disappears for good from next month.
 
The 650 does outperform the AMD equivalent that would make it into the MBP the 7750.

Would be nice if they stuck a 660 on the high end too.

650 = 23.5 GTextures/s
660 = 26.7

7750 = 18.4
7770 = 21.6
 
faroZ06 said:
NVIDIA is the reason my iMac keeps freezing. Thanks for the faulty GPU :mad:
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I'm on that same boat. I have a late 2008 MBP and my mac crashes all the time when I switch to 'higher performance'. In about 12 hours when I'm playing Diablo 3 I guarantee I'll be cursing NVIDIA's name.
 
fpsBeaTt said:
This is a huge mistake. 600m chips are not Kepler, but simply re-branded Fermi, while 7000m chips are Southern Islands based. I hope this isn't true, as there's no reason why Apple would suddenly take a dive for the stupid.
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Not all 600M chips are rebranded Fermi's. The 650M is actually Kepler.
 
A lot of rumors today. I am anxiously waiting for WWDC! Also, I do hope if Apple goes with Nvidia, the GPUs are at least the equivalent of an AMD 7770. :)
 
kylepro88 said:
My BIG question is how is its OpenCL performance? They rewrote FCPX from the ground up to take advantage of that so I hope it's a chip that will work well with the program. I mean, I can't imagine them picking items in their hardware that wouldn't work well with it, but you never know.
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NVidia was the first I know of to push gpgpu computing, but this is a troll rumor anyway. I'd bet the cost of a mac mini that we'll see another round of AMD given that they've been fine. The gpu problem under OSX is typically drivers. AMD hasn't been worse than anyone else, but it's really up to Apple to work with these guys on getting a good driver implementation. Right now none are that great.

faroZ06 said:
NVIDIA is the reason my iMac keeps freezing. Thanks for the faulty GPU :mad:
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Are you sure about that? By the way, AMD has released problematic gpus too, but they've been pretty good for the past couple years.

swingerofbirch said:
What would Apple's motivation be for leaking this? And why such specific information?
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Hint: they didn't. Do a search. It's a repeat of a prior rumor.

PodPacker said:
They are dead to me. Like Seagate and LaCie. No way I would risk my productivity on a company that has failed me more than once. If I upgrade, it will be to AMD only.
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Then I don't think you have anything to worry on. I don't see Apple using NVidia no matter what they make simply because AMD has been fine under OSX. Drivers have always sucked whether it was Intel, AMD, or NVidia. It's not something we'll see improve by a vendor change.
 
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