14 DAY TRIAL // NVIDIA announced its new GeForce GTX mobile graphics processors this week, including the GeForce GTX 860M, 850M, 840M and 830M GPUs. According to the producing companies, the new mobile graphic systems are 60% faster than last year, and once integrated into laptops, they will bestow console-like gaming capabilities and double the battery life.
The new GPU architecture is based on Maxwell and will be implemented into laptops whose thickness is under 22 mm / 0.8 inches. NVIDIA also offers GTX 870M and 880M high-end graphics processors (based on the older Kepler architecture) that have been clocked up to provide more Steam. (via PC Advisor).
The company has Maxwell-based desktop GPU available and will be implementing them in Linux-based desktop machines (called Steam Machines), scheduled to arrive on the market this year.
However, the company opted to implement Maxwell into lower-end GPUs because they tend to sell better. The GTX mobile GPUs are housed on the motherboard and will allow gaming enthusiasts to play some of the latest titles available on the market day.
And soon enough we’re going to see mobile gaming solution providers update their gaming gear to the new standard. The fastest GTX 880M will be implemented into MSI’s GT70, Dell’s Alienware 17 and ASUS’ G750.
Moving along, the GTX 870 will go into the Razer’s Blade laptop while the Lenovo Y50 and Gigabyte P34 will be getting the Maxwell-based 860M GPU.
Falcon Northwest is also expected to perform an update to GTX 800M for its 700 and 800 lines of notebooks.
Anyway, the 860M, 870M and 880M graphic chips can support graphics up to 4K resolution (3840 x 2160), but laptops with 4K screens are pretty scarce in the wild at the moment.
Apart from increased graphics capabilities, the implementation of the new chip will produce an important by-product, power-efficiency. This happens to be part of the new feature called Battery Boost, which can adapt the GPU settings based on the game’s specific requirements.
Basically, Battery Boost is capable of assessing the characteristic of each game in order to provide the perfect balance between performance and power consumption, ensuring uses will be able to play the game for as long as they want.
With the new gaming laptops implementing the new architectures coming out, NVIDIA is expecting to see important growth.