Nvidia Laptop GTX 980 - FULL Desktop Gaming in a Laptop
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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742 words · ~3 min read
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NVIDIA brought us down here to LA to check out something pretty freaking
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interesting a GeForce GTX 980 now why is
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that interesting we've had these for a while it's in a laptop and no it doesn't
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have a little M denomination after
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it so yes it is a full desktop GPU it
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has 2048 cacor a base clock of 1126 a
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boost clock of 1216 a memory clock of 6
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GBS per second which you just don't see in laptops 4 GB of memory a 256bit
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interface width and yeah it's seriously
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a 980 in a laptop NVIDIA unsurprisingly
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is binning specific 980 chips for this
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because they need good well- bend 980s for this because it has to sit in the
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laptop it has to fit within certain specifications also they're going to be
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in laptops that have four to eight phase power supplies which is beast mode and
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not something you're used to seeing on a laptop often you see two to three phase
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power supplies not 4 to8 uh it has record braking performance on air which
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is not very surprising but we'll see what people can do to it down the line
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and they're going to be working with laptop manufacturers to have it so that
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the CPU and the GPU are fully unlocked and overclocking ready they're also
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working with those laptop manufacturers to pump more cooling options into these
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units up to 50% more apparently in some use cases and that should help because
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you'll be able to tweak fan speed profiles if you want to go really loud
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and get more overclocking great if you want to be quieter and maybe get a
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little bit less overclocking that's great as well in terms of overclocking
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you'll be able to change core clock speeds and memory clock speeds like I
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mentioned earlier but not power limit or voltage limit as it's a laptop and
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messing with those things can be a little bit more dangerous than on a desktop where you will have more leeway
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now they were serious about this and actually let me tinker and mess around
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with some of the laptops which is pretty freaking cool I was able to bench Mark a
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thinner kind of Gigabyte aorus laptop aoris X7 which was pretty badass and a
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thicker Cleo on the other side so alongside of those I tested a normal
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system which had a kind of generalized setup and a desktop 980 in it and we got
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to see the performance numbers in things like fire strike extreme Tomb Raider
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Shadow of Mordor and Metro last Light which was pretty impressive because they
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claimed that there would be about a Delta of maybe 5% and in a lot of cases
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it was less than that these system were really really close and that's even
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considering other components in these laptops like CPU which you have to take
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into the equation here so it's badass it's a full desktop GPU and a laptop and
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it actually runs properly and it's overclockable on top of that impressive
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but what else is there also to GeForce experience they are bringing VR
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optimization so at the 950 we saw low latency optimization for stuff like
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mobas and there's normal optimization which is more well-rounded and then
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we're we're going to be seeing VR optimization which is pretty awesome so
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the idea behind this is tweaking your settings is something that a lot of
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people like doing and one of the reasons why someone may not actually use GeForce
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experience others like it others don't but in VR I think that line is going to
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blur a little bit more because tweaking settings is going to be very annoying
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when you strap a screen to your face and then something's wrong you can get sick
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or it can be pretty disturbing very quickly so knowing that everything's
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just going to kind of work is a pretty big benefit
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watching I'll see you guys next time