Professional Nvidia graphics for laptops

Nvidia has refreshed its mobile workstation graphics chips for professionals, including its first offering for the slim notebook arena.

The new PCI Express processors are the Quadro FX 350M, 1500M and 2500M. The 350M is Nvidia's first solution for thin and light notebooks, offering 256MB of memory and using a 64Mbit memory interface.

Both the Quadro FX 1500 and FX 2500M use faster 256Mbit memory interfaces and come with 256MB and 512MB of graphics memory as standard.

The launch of a 512MB product comes just one week after rival ATI announced its own 512MB offering and the world's first professional graphics card with 1GB of memory, the FireGL V7350.

Dell is the first manufacturer to launch products supporting the new Quadro FX processors with the launch of the Precision M65 and M90 notebooks.