With the new-announced five 200M series laptop GPUs – G210M, GT 230M, GT 240M, GTS 250M and GTS 260M - Nvidia has rounded out its mobile GeForce lineup with up to ‘two times the performance and half the power consumption’ of earlier chips.

According to Nvidia, the new graphic processors – which are 40nm chips that support DirectX 10.1 - will fill in the gaps between the current GTX280M, GTX260M, and GTS160M; thereby providing a range of Windows 7-ready graphics options for notebook PCs.

The chips – which will buff up cost-conscious computers to enthusiast gamer machines - run CUDA applications, and, excluding the G210M, the others offer built-in nVidia PhysX technology for GPU-bound physics calculations for games and other applications.

While the G210M chip contains 512MB of on-board GDDR3 memory, the other four contain 1GB on-board GDDR3 memory. All the chips support HybridPower, that allows them to slip into a low-power mode when not required.

Nvidia expects avid mobile gamers to incline towards the higher end of the lineup - GTS250M and GRS260M – which provide 50 percent more power than the earlier GPUs, and are SLI compatible for simultaneous running of multiple cards.

Matt Wuebbling, Nvidia’s Senior Product Manager for laptops, said that notebooks with the new GPUs may show as early as July; with Asus and Acer to be the pioneers in that direction.