Aorus X7 Pro, which has two GTX 1080m cards in SLI and not the GTX 1080 or GTX 1070, sits on a table at Computex 2016 (Photo : YouTube / laptopmag)
NVIDIA might actually be rolling out both a laptop version of the GTX 1080 and the GTX 1080m after photos of the latter's benchmark results have been leaked.
Earlier reports have claimed that NVIDIA is skipping the GTX 1080m entirely as they will be releasing the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 instead for laptops just like what they did with the GTX 980. The company has not officially announced anything yet as they could still be busy milking the desktop cards for sales considering the slow restocking.
Mobile versions of desktop GPUs have always been several steps behind due to the compromise in power efficiency and heat dissipation. NVIDIA has tried to overcome that with the GTX 980 card for laptops but it needed to be cooled by a large detachable cooler for it to perform at its peak power.
Chinese site Chiphell has now leaked several photos of what seems to be the system specs of a laptop running Windows 10 with the GTX 1080m, Neowin has learned. There are also photos of the 3DMark FireStrike benchmarks of the mobile Pascal GPU which shows a high graphics score of 16983 and a combined score of 13178 with an Intel Core i7-6100M as the processor.
There was also a leaked product listing for the IVY Gaming 17P laptop that features the GTX 1080m card. It comes from Sweden but the product listing has been removed after it went viral.
Other leaked photos of the laptop specs carrying the GTX 1080m also showed that it can feature 2048 CUDA cores, Videocardz reported. The GTX 1080 desktop card features 2560 and the downgrade for the mobile counterpart is expected.
The base clock of the Pascal mobile GP104 card will be at 1442MHz and boost clock at 1645MHz which is several hundred hertz higher than the GTX 980 Notebook card itself. While the memory clock has not been revealed, it can be expected that it will be higher than the 980's 1750MHz probably at 2000MHz.
NVIDIA could then be launching both a full notebook version of the GTX 1080 for high-end laptops such as the ASUS ROG line and a less powerful GTX 1080m for budget and mid-end gaming notebooks. The lack of GTX 1070m reports could also point out that the company will roll out the 1080m laptops first before the 1070m just like the original desktop Pascal cards launch.
