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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M

The Nvidia GeForce GTS 350M is a high performance laptop graphics card and based on the GT215 core. According to the released information by Nvidia the card is identical to the GeForce GTS 250M. However, in the Toshiba A663-3DV the clock rate is a bit lower (450/1080MHz).

The GT215 core supports DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 2.1. It features 96 shader cores as the 9800M GT, but the memory bus is only 128 bit wide. To compensate this, the GTS 350M supports GDDR5. Therefore, the performance is significantly lower when cheap DDR3 memory is used.

As the GeForce 9800M GT, the laptop graphics card GTS 350M features 96 stream processors that do the work of the former dedicated pixel- and vertex-shaders. The unified shaders of Nvidia are 1-dimensional (AMD has 5-dimensional shaders which leads to the higher number of shaders). 

The GeForce GPU also supports CUDADirectX ComputeOpenCL, and PhysX to use the shaders for other tasks than rendering images (like encoding videos, calculating the physics of a game or mathematical tasks). For these special tasks, the GPU can be noticeably faster than current CPUs.

The mobile graphics card has a built in video decoder called PureVideo HD with VP4. The Video Processor 4 (VP4) supports the full decoding of H.264, VC-1, and now also MPEG-4 ASP (e.g. DivX or XviD). MPEG-1 still wont be supported, but the decoding of this codec is quite trivial on a CPU.

In conjunction with a chipset from Nvidia with integrated graphics (e.g. 9400M), the GTS 350M supports Hybrid-SLI (HybridPower but no GeForceBoost). HybridPower is a technique to choose between the integrated and dedicated graphics core, if performance or battery runtime is needed. This works only in Windows Vista (and possibly Windows 7). Up to now the user has to use a tool to switch between the GPUs. Later Nvidia wants to switch automatically in the drivers. GeForceBoost is not supported by the GTS 360M because the SLI combination would not perform better.

The performance of the middle class - high end GPU GeForce GTS 350M should be on par compared to the GTS 250M. Demanding DirectX 10 games like Crysis should run fluently in medium to high details. Older or less demanding games should run in high detail settings and high resolutions.

Depending on the the used type of graphics memory (GDDR5, GDDR3) the performance may differ. The maximum clock rate can also differ according to the used graphics RAM. The maximum support clock rate is 2000 MHz for GDDR5.

GeForce GTS 300M Series

GeForce GTS 360M compare 96 @ 0.58 GHz128 Bit @ 1800 MHz
GeForce GTS 350M 96 @ 0.5 GHz128 Bit @ 1600 MHz
Codenamen11e-ge1
ArchitectureGT2xx
Pipelines96 - unified
Core Speed500 MHz
Shader Speed1250 MHz
Memory Speed1600 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit
Memory TypeDDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Max. Amount of Memory1024 MB
Shared Memoryno
APIDirectX 10.1, Shader 4.1
Power Consumption28? Watt
Transistor Count727 Million
technology40 nm
FeaturesDirectX Compute Support (Windows 7), CUDA, OpenCL, HybridPower, PhysX, SLI, Powermizer 8.0, MXM 3.0 Type-B
Notebook Sizelarge
Date of Announcement07.01.2010
Information360 GFlops
Link to Manufacturer Pagewww.nvidia.com

Benchmarks

3DMark 03 - 3DMark 03 - Standard
min: 19551     avg: 19932     median: 19931.5 (10%)     max: 20312 Points
3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Score Unknown Settings +
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x768 +
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Notebook reviews with NVIDIA GeForce GTS 350M graphics card

Toshiba Satellite A665-14F: Intel Core i7-740QM, 15.60", 2.8 kg
  External Review » Toshiba Satellite A665-14F

Toshiba Satellite A665-11T: Intel Core i7-740QM, 15.60", 2.6 kg
  External Review » Toshiba Satellite A665-11T

Toshiba Satellite A660-07R: Intel Core i7-740QM, 15.60", 2.7 kg
  External Review » Toshiba Satellite A660-07R

Toshiba Satellite A665-3DV5: Intel Core i5-460M, 15.60", 2.9 kg
  External Review » Toshiba Satellite A665-3DV5

Toshiba Satellite A665-12M: Intel Core i7-740QM, 15.60", 2.8 kg
  External Review » Toshiba Satellite A665-12M

Toshiba Satellite A665-12k: Intel Core i7-740QM, 15.60", 2.8 kg
  External Review » Toshiba Satellite A665-12k

Toshiba Satellite A665-11Z: Intel Core i7-740QM, 15.60", 2.9 kg
  External Review » Toshiba Satellite A665-11Z

Toshiba Satellite A665-3DV: Intel Core i7-740QM, 15.60", 2.9 kg
  External Review » Toshiba Satellite A665-3DV

Toshiba Satellite A665-12X: Intel Core i7-720QM, 15.60", 2.8 kg
  External Review » Toshiba Satellite A665-12X

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