ASUS may be on to something as their rumored NVIDIA GTX 1080m for laptops has been shown to beat even the GTX Titan X and the GTX 980 Ti in 3DMark 11 scores.
That means that the new laptop video card from NVIDIA can beat the most powerful desktop GPUs available in the market. The GTX 1080m is the mobile version of the newest GTX 1080 king video card recently unveiled by the company a few days back.
ASUS teased their fans with a benchmark of their newest ROG notebook's GPU against the GTX 980 Ti, the Radeon R9 295X2 and the GTX Titan X. In total, the new laptop video card scored 20,801 in 3DMark 11.
The company is not confirming that it would be indeed the GTX 1080m but they did say that people can make "educated guesses." Since the new video cards from NVIDIA have been shown to beat the previous generation by more than two times the performance, there would be no doubt that it will be the mobile version of the 1080.
ASUS ROG laptops have been known to be expensive but they really deliver their best in terms of specs with the latest Skylake processors and SSDs. With the cheaper price of the new cards, there is a possibility that the laptops carrying their mobile versions could also be cheaper.
The NVIDIA GTX 1080m was shown to beat the other desktop video cards without even overclocking, TechFrag reported. If the cards were overclocked, the margin of difference between the 1080m and the GTX Titan X could be wider.
In terms of specs, the mobile version of the 1080 would still be less powerful as there would be much needed compromises. Its performance is still top notch as it can beat desktop computers which is rare nowadays.
The GTX 980 was the most powerful laptop solution last year. ASUS ROG laptops with the GTX 1080m would no doubt beat its performance with double the power, Tweaktown has learned.
NVIDIA's GTX 1080 has a total of 2560 CUDA cores and GDDR5X memory. The mobile version of the card could have fewer cores and just a GDDR5 memory type.
ASUS said that they will be officially unveiling their new ROG laptop line at the Computex 2016 event. Fans will finally know whether it will be the GTX 1080m that can beat the GTX Titan X and the GTX 980 Ti.