NVIDIA Announced GeForce 500M Series

NVIDIA announced their new GeForce 500M series, which is their newest addition to their mobility GPU series. There are five new GPUs announced, the GT 540M, GT 550M, the GT 555M, the GT 520M, and the GT 525M. The 520M and the 525M are for “mainstream” users, while the rest are for power users. The 500 series GeForce GPUs also support DirectX 11. They also include what NVIDIA calls “Optimus” technology, which turns off the GPU when it isn’t needed to save battery. According to the press release, Acer, Alienware, ASUS, Clevo, Dell, Fujitsu, Lenovo, Medion, MSI, Samsung, Toshiba and others have announced new laptops that will be using the new GPUs.