Last week, NVIDIA came up with its new Fermi architecture for laptop graphic cards encouraging major laptop manufacturers – Asus, Eurocom and Maingear - to come to join the event and try the new feature on their GeForge GTX 400-M notebooks.

This is about the new GTX 480M Graphic Processor Unit (GPU), which is five times as powerful as other GPUs due to a dedicated Tesselation engine. The GRU has a 425MHz core, 1,200MHz frame buffer and 352 stream processors (850MHz). NVIDIA boldly claims the GTX 480M to be the world's fastest laptop GPU and refers to it as “Direct 11 done right for notebooks”.

Asus has made a decision to boost two of its gaming laptops – the 15.6-inch G53JW and the 17.3-inch G73GW - by the GeForge GTX 460 card shipped with 1.5GB of GDDR5 memory. This configuration is expected to have the most optimal price/quality proportion.

Both notebooks are powered by Intel Core processors and feature 3D support. The new GPU also supports 3D vision, CUDA and PhysX - an advanced physics modeling technology.

There have already been reports about these laptops being shipped with the GTX 460. The company still has not announced its pricing strategy, but there has been a report from a retailer company about the G53JW being sold for $1,499, and the G73GW going for $1,745.

Eurocom does not seem to be willing to stay behind either. To keep pace with the time, it is ready to incorporate the latest and most advanced hardware into its not-so-cheap laptops. Eurocom offers systems featuring GTX 460Ms, 470Ms and 480Ms or even a pair of GTX 480Ms for SLI, which nearly doubles the product's initial price. Maingear's eX-L 17 laptop with the 480M will go for $2,499.

Most interesting, NVIDIA has passed power consumption in silence as the least encouraging point of the new feature, especially for those seeking to prolong battery life.