GeForce 800M 

At a time when the first high-end 20nm SoCs are just now hitting consumer devices in products such as the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 International and Apple iPhone 6, ARM’s development pipeline and product marketing teams are already looking at next year’s products and what processor designs to prepare for them.

Launching alongside the new Mali GPUs today are a series of updates for the rest of ARM’s graphics stack, which will see the Mali-V video block and Mali-DP display controllers updated respectively.

Now the company is ready for the Geforce 800 series and it looks like this chip will be power efficient and powerful, too.

For Nvidia it was all about getting the 20nm manufacturing process to the point where it makes financial sense, while gaining a performance uplift substantial to excite customers and get them to buy new cards.

You would recall that a few weeks ago we broke the news that Maxwell Mobility (probably named 900 Series) will be landing in October.

You might also remember that we purposefully gave no confirmation on lithography.

Its compute units were shifted into power-of-two partitions, reducing die area for scheduling logic (and so forth).

It was originally supposed to be host of unified virtual memory, not Pascal.