Toshiba launches world's first notebook with three Nvidia GPUs

John Chan | Nov 07, 2008

Picture credit: Toshiba

Nvidia seems to be making a lot of headway in the mobile computing world. Just recently, Apple announced that its lineup of new notebooks would come with integrated and/or discrete Nvidia GPUs (graphics processing units). Today, it pulled off another coup with Toshiba announcing that its latest gaming notebook, the Qosmio X305 will come with three Nvidia GPUs.

We have not made a typo. One of these GPUs is the integrated GeForce 9400M while the other two are a pair GeForce 9800M GTS GPUs working together using the chipmaker's SLI technology. Like the new MacBook Pro, users can switch between the 9400M for battery stamina and the dual graphics for performance. Each of the 9800M GPUs come with 512MB of dedicated DDR3 video memory. That alone tells you how much power Toshiba has put under the hood of these gaming class notebooks.

Two variants are available and they cost either US$1,999 or a sky-high US$4,199. The insanely expensive model also comes with an Intel QX9300 Core 2 Extreme processor and two hard drives, one of which is a 128MB SSD--no doubt one of the main factors driving up its cost significantly compared to the cheaper model which comes with just one regular 320GB hard drive.

These notebooks are now available in the US though not yet in Asia. We are checking when they will arrive in our region and will update this article as soon as we can.

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