MSI is introducing the latest NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, 1070 and 1080 graphics cards for eleven notebooks in the GT series, GS series, GE series and even the GP series. There’s no “M” moniker here.
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NVIDIA’s manufacturing partners will be ready to roll with GTX 10 processing power for laptop PCs very soon. Although chips like the GTX 980M were powerful, they weren’t a patch on their full desktop counterparts.
NVIDIA first tested the waters for such plans previous year when it placed desktop-standard graphics processors in a notebook, with GTX 980 embedded on Maxwell microarchitecture. The new GTX lineup is also the first mobile GPU designed while keeping overclocking in mind. Nvidia says it’s able to produce more GTX 1070s in this way because the GP102 chips the 1070 is built on can be produced to run at this slightly lower clock speed. Also, all of these will support Virtual Reality games. The computer hardware company promised that the GeForce GTX 10 series will finally put the laptops on par or at least close to PCs when it comes to running games, according to PC World. That means the existing suite of Nvidia extras like PhysX, G-Sync, ShadowWorks, HairWorks, Surround, and the new set Pascal brings in like Ansel, GPU Boost 3.0, DirectX 12_1 feature support, as well as support for the new Vulkan API.
Just like its bigger desktop brother, the GTX 1080 mobile GPU will also have 2560 CUDA cores. NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 10-series GPUs leverage high-speed FinFET, high-bandwidth GDDR5X technologies and DirectX 12 to deliver the smoothest, most power-efficient gaming notebook experiences. Historically, NV has owned most of the mobile gaming space these past few years, so any movement for AMD on this front would be positive.
The online publication managed to get a slide from the presentation in China, which suggests that this particular video card has half the memory of the original GeForce GTX 1060 series GPUs. These sleeker laptops aren’t a patch on the ultraportables you can now find, but when you can put a GTX 1060 into a laptop the size of a 13-inch MacBook pro and have it pump out Doom at over 120fps on Ultra settings, you’ve sold me.
Ultimately it was found that the GeForce GTX 1060 cards works better than 1080 on visuals at 2,560 by 1,440p.
GTX 1060 laptop specs: 1280 CUDA cores, 1670MHz boost clock, 6GB memory, 8Gbps. When you think about it, that’s 30 percent more battery life at the system level.
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We’ll have more info, detailed benchmarks, and power and battery testing, later this week, once we’ve had enough hands-on time with the proper drivers.
