NVidia Releases a New High-End GeForce Mobile GPU

Couple of days after the introduction of the new MacBook Pro models featuring the powerful GeForce 8600M, NVidia announced its new high-end mobile GPU, aka GeForce 8700M.
What is new? Not much despite doubling the memory bus, meaning double 128-bit memory bus, and not 256-bit bus. The core frequency jumps from 475MHz (GF 8600M) to 625MHz, shaders clock increases from 950MHz to 1200MHz, while the memory frequency moves from 400MHz to 800MHz. The memory bandwidth does not really change 25.6GB/s vs. 22.4GB/s for the GF8600M.
The power consumption should be in line with the GPU frequency, so significantly increased compare to the GF 8600M, explaining maybe why Apple decided to go with the GF 8600M, even though Cupertino knew about the up-coming GF 8700M.