Monday, October 12, 2015

Nvidia crams desktop GTX 980

Nvidia crams desktop GTX 980
Welcome to a Biomedical Battery specialist of the Asus Laptop Battery
In what is one of the most Goldblum-like moments of the year so far, Nvidia has partnered with OEMs like Asus and MSI to cram the full desktop version of its high-end GTX 980 graphics card into laptops. Thanks to its full array of 2048 CUDA cores, up to 8GB of 7GHz GDDR5 memory, and 1126MHz core clock, Nvidia claims the new laptop GTX 980 offers around a 30 percent performance boost over its previous flagship laptop GPU, the GTX 980M.
Even crazier, Nvidia has also managed to convince OEMs to let users overclock the GTX 980 too. Coupled with Intel's upcoming unlocked K-series Skylake laptop CPUs, users will be able to eke out a significant amount of extra performance from their laptops, cooling permitting with battery like Asus AP21-1002HA Battery, Asus Eee PC 1002HA Battery, Asus Eee PC S101H Battery, Asus AP22-U1001 Battery, Asus Eee PC S101 Battery, Asus 90-NGA1B3000 Battery, Asus A32-R1 Battery, Asus C21-R2 Battery, Asus C22-R2 Battery, Asus A32-U6 Battery, Asus A33-U6 Battery, Asus N20A Battery. To help things along, Nvidia's laptop GTX 980s will differ slightly from their desktop counterparts in that they'll be binned for improved leakage and power consumption.
Nvidia says the binning process will ensure each laptop GTX 980 is guaranteed to hit the advertised 1126MHz GPU core clock and 1216MHz boost clock, as well as achieve overclocks somewhere in the region of 200MHz. That's a modest increase over the stock clock, but given the thermal restraints of a notebook chassis it's still rather impressive. To hit those overclocked speeds, users will be able to tweak the fan curve of the GPU (a first for laptops), as well as adjust the core clock and memory speeds.
However, users will be limited to a fan speed offset set by the notebook manufacturer. The overall power target as well as voltage control will also continue to be locked down. Other features of the laptop GTX 980 include between four- and eight-phase power supplies for better, cleaner power delivery, as well as support for three-panel surround gaming. Some OEMs are equipping their notebooks with three discrete outputs, although others will work via DisplayPort daisy chaining.
Naturally, cramming a 165W GPU into a laptop chassis does come with some compromises. For starters, all the notebooks available at launch feature a 17-inch or larger screen, which—when coupled with the gargantuan external power supplies they require—mean that they're not exactly something you want to carry around with you too often. All the launch models also only come with 1080p displays, albeit displays that support Nvidia's variable refresh rate technology G-Sync.

No comments:

Post a Comment