Laptops on have GPUs that are quite down compared to desktop counterparts (Photo : Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)
There are talks that with the Nvidia will no longer be making M series GPUs with the new 10-series GPUs. The rumors come from the assumption that the GTX 1080 & 1070 will be available to laptops or notebooks in a couple of months.
Computer hardware companies like Nvidia normally create products for desktop and laptop separately, according to ExtremeTech. For years, Nvidia knows creating a GPU that can fit into a laptop means some features that the desktop counterpart can carry would have to be sacrificed. Thus, the difference between the performance of laptop GPUs and desktop graphic cars are very much noticeable.
With technological advancement, there are talks that Nvidia preparing to break such stigma of laptop GPUs with its GTX 1080 and 1070 that even the laptops can have with the same graphic display capabilities as its desktop versions. The rumors reportedly come from insiders from a computer hardware manufacturer. If such rumors are true and with Nvidia designing a much better cooling systems for their laptops, this may be music to a serious gamer's ear
Meanwhile, such talk is said to have originated from PC Gamer. The tech news website has learned about the supposed Nvidia plans for gaming notebooks from insiders at Computex. Nvidia is reportedly gearing up to launch its innovative 10-series chips for notebooks.
The truth to these chips is that they really will not be laptop versions of the desktop GPUs per se, instead, those will be the same chips applied to desktop only that they will be reportedly functioning at lesser thermal design power (TDP). This means that the laptop version will generate only the heat that the laptop's cooling system can handle in a normal operation.
The tech news website also reported that Nvidia will no longer be producing a different M version of the desktop GPUs. In the past, the GeForce M version GPUs were obviously performing a bit lower that its desktop counterpart, for example, the GTX 970M is CUDA 1280 cores at ~993MHz while GTX 970 GPU Engine is 1664 cores at boosted 1178MHz
Lastly, the recently announced GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 chips are expected to be available for certain laptops around August/September. With the new 10-series GPUs having amazing power saving capabilities, it is not too farfetched to assume that this is probably the reason that Nvidia is dropping the M series GPUs.
