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    Trash Your Gaming Desktops: Nvidia's New GeForce GTX 970M and 980M Get Serious

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Jerry Jackson, Oct 7, 2014.

  1. Jerry Jackson

    Jerry Jackson Administrator NBR Reviewer

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    Most of our long-term readers have known for many years that high-end gaming notebooks deliver amazing performance with the latest and greatest games. However, the truth is serious gamers kept using desktops because there has always been a healthy gap between the in-game performance from notebook graphics processors (GPUs) and desktop GPUs.

    Nvidia hopes to dramatically narrow that gap with the new GeForce GTX 970M and GTX 980M.

    Read the full content of this Article: http://www.notebookreview.com/news/trash-gaming-desktops-nvidias-new-geforce-gtx-970m-980m-get-serious/
     
    Jerry Jackson, Oct 7, 2014
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  2. octiceps

    octiceps Nimrod

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    The new mobile GPU's have indeed closed the performance gap with their desktop counterparts over generations past, but the article title is a bit clickbait, don't you think?
     
    octiceps, Oct 7, 2014
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    Mitlov Shiny

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    Particularly considering that the biggest advantages of a gaming desktop over a gaming laptop are longevity and upgradeability.

    What's the source of the charts in the article? Are those Nvidia advertising materials, I presume, or something NBR put together or verified?
     
    Mitlov, Oct 8, 2014
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  4. ALLurGroceries

    ALLurGroceries  Vegan Vermin Super Moderator

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    The source is a nvidia press release
     
    ALLurGroceries, Oct 8, 2014
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    While Single GPU's have done well and have come a long way in laptop/mobile systems. I still feel that SLI or Multi Card setups within mobile systems still have a long way to go. Granted Multi-GPU systems even on desktops have not proven to be all that efficient/great in terms of drivers,value and everything else there is still a gap between desktops and laptops in that area.
     
    darkloki, Oct 15, 2014
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