Laptop graphics cards are DEAD
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,397 words · ~6 min read
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so NVIDIA has brought us to London and there's been a lot of speculation as to
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why some people thought it was 1080 TI I really hoped that it wasn't too many
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desktop cards in the last little while some people thought it was 1080m I was
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in that camp and we were all wrong it was 1080 1070 and 1060 all in a laptop
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without the M nomenclature and for a good reason
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below NVIDIA is claiming to have a 20 million user install base for gaming
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notebooks that it's increased by 30% over 2015 alone and that it's 9x in The
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Last 5 Years gaming notebooks are becoming a big deal compared to before
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where everyone is just like they're just really large clunky objects they're
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becoming much more streamlined things like the razor blade which I'm actually getting my notes off for this video are
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actually really really fast and there's going to be a new one coming out with a
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1060 in it and that's impressive there
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will be laptops with desktop grade GTX 1060s in them that are as thin as 14 mm
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and as light as 4 lb and that's coming with more features as well like more
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power efficient Graphics which should give you 30% more battery life over
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their previous Maxwell editions and while the thin and light 1060 equipped
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laptops cater to me you might want to play with a little bit more power and
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that would be fine we saw a live demo on stage where they overclocked a 1080
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inside of a laptop got it to like 2062
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mahz and it was only at like I think 73°
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C something like that we're going to have to test this in office and we're
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going to have to compare them against their desktop equivalents but it is
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pretty exciting nonetheless now NVIDIA does seem to be ditching the M all
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together they're just calling them desktop edition cards but they are
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slightly different what they're going to be looking for in terms of B is going to be different and in the case of the 1070
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the specs are actually different but NVIDIA is saying that they should be
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within 10% of the perceived performance of their desktop variants the laptop
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Edition 1060 has 6 GB of memory 1280 cacor and a 1670 boost clock the 1070 is
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a little weird with 8 GB of memory but 2048 Cuda cores and 1645 on the Boost
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clock then the 1080 is more like its desktop Edition brother with 2560 caor 8
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GB of memory and 1733 boost clock in
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regards to TDP they wouldn't give us any actual numbers but what they would tell
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us is that the 1060 should be basically the same TDP as a
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970m the 1070 should be the same TDP as a 980m and then the 1080 should be the
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same TDP as a 980 nonm the desktop class
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980 now they'll be equipped with a dual fet power supply multiphase power
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controllers and some laptops will come with Factory overclocks but do note that
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there's no over voltage or under voltage control at all on the card and
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unfortunately we weren't able to play with overclocking at the event so that
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style of video will have to come later on now in terms of tech you get all the
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same stuff as the desktop side does you're going to be able to have anel in
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your games you have Invidia VR works if you're into that all of these different
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graphics cards are VR ready quote unquote that will mean more or less
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depending on which card you get and there's been some improvements to g-sync
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the main one is 120 HZ so you're going to have 12 HZ 1080p panels and 120 HZ
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1440p panels although we didn't see any of those today that's pretty exciting if
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you're into high refresh rate gaming on the go which has not been a huge thing
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in the past okay so I'm back in Canada now and I was able to sit down and pour
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over some of the benchmarking results that I gathered from the laptops at the
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event in London there were two rather unfortunate things to note here one is
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that NVIDIA did not allow me to test any of the laptops that were equipped with a
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GTX 10 60 this was frustrating as those
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were what I was most excited for the thin and lights oh well the second
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unfortunate thing is that the games they allowed us to use for testing were weird
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why they had BioShock Infinite and Shadow of Mordor there I have no idea
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getting results of 181 is frames per second in BioShock for the 1080 is sweet
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but not very impactful or useful I would have rathered seeing more modern games
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that actually could really push the platform and see what it's capable of
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tomor does that but it's pretty cherry-picked that being said here's the
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performance numbers they were all ran at 1080p due to the resolution limitations
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of the ASUS laptop and then I paired that with the highest presets I could
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throw at it now this wasn't a great comparison Not only was 1080p not a
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challenge for either of these cards or laptops as a whole but the ASUS laptop
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had an i7 6820 HK and the cevo had an
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i76700 desktop Edition processor so was
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not the same on either end but there you go it's fast sure both myself and the
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venerable lonus Sebastian himself will have benchmarking comparisons and
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whatnot for you guys in the future as we get some laptop samples in the office
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but that's actually all for now I don't have a ton to say on those benchmarking
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numbers as they're on kind of older not
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as relevant games but we can look at the Tomb Raider number and know that these
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things are going to be quite fast and
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I'm very happy that they have desktop grade Graphics in laptops in a full
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