<p><span style="font-size: small; ">Just four months ago, NVIDIA released their&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: small; ">top-to-bottom 400M lineup</span><span style="font-size: small; ">.Since the announcement, it took about a month but we then got the ASUS G73Jw (460M), Dell XPS L501x (420M), Clevo B5130M (425M), and ASUS N53JF (425M) in rapid succession. All of these were decent offerings, with a nice blend of performance and features at reasonable prices. Of course, Core 2010 products are last year&rsquo;s news, and with the launch of Sandy Bridge the whole industry is moving to 2^nd&nbsp;Generation Intel Core Processors (aka Core 2011). With an improved IGP threatening low-end discrete GPUs, what better time for NVIDIA to refresh their mobile parts?</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; ">Unlike the desktop GTX 580, the new 500M mobile parts are all using existing architectures; there are even a couple of new 400M parts to round things out. The major change is that we&rsquo;re getting higher clock speeds, both on the GPU cores/shaders as well as the memory. In a few cases we also have additional shaders available, as well as clearing up some potentially confusing part names (really!). Read on for details on this year&rsquo;s NVIDIA laptop offerings&mdash;coming soon to a Sandy Bridge laptop near you !</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small; "><a target="_blank" href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/4087/nvidia-500m-refreshing-the-400m">Read more...</a></span></p>