NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M Now in Eurocom PCs

Since NVIDIA's new graphics processors are running all over the place, Eurocom figured it may as well use one of them in its Racer 2.0 laptop. 

The Racer 2.0 is one of the Eurocom laptops that have been receiving maintenance the most lately, as its maker has been experimenting with hardware and such. 

Not long ago, it got the AMD Radeon HD 7970M and, now, it can be configured with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M. 

For those who don't remember, the discrete GPU has 384 CUDA cores, a clock speed of 835 MHz and a texture fill rate of 30.4 billion per second. 

2 GB of GDDR5 VRAm are present, on a 128-bit memory interface, a 2,000 MHz memory clock and a 64.0 GB/s memory bandwidth. 

“NVIDIA's Geforce GTX 660M will offer extreme professional capability, gaming and CUDA development performance for our customers,” explains Mark Bialic, president of Eurocom. 

“With 384 CUDA cores the GeForce 660M is ideal for Gamers, Professionals and CUDA development which enables the GPU to solve complex computational problems in business and technical applications for utilization within the Eurocom notebook line.” 

The Eurocom Racer 2.0, with the discrete card in place, supports OpenGL 4.1, 3D Vision, CUDA, DirectX 11, PhysX, Optimus, OpenCL and DirectCompute. HDMI, VGA and digital display ports are present, complete with HDCP support. 

As for the rest, the 15.6-inch machine gets a 22nm Ivy Bridge central processing unit, up to 32 GB of DDR3 RAM (random access memory), full connectivity and I/O, etc. 

All in all, this is a powerful mobile workstation. Eurocom even published some benchmarking results, and they are none too shabby. The GTX 660M may not be the greatest 600M series chip, but it does well enough under fire. Follow this link here  if you want to take a look at those scores.

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