Good! We don't need portability in laptops that much anymore. We have smartphones and tablets for that.
Nvidia stuffs desktop GTX 1080, 1070, 1060 into laptops, drops the “M”
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#42Man. Hopefully these come with some kind car-like exhaust heat shield between the keyboard and everything else. I tried playing games on my macbook pro, and while it ran fine (guildwars 2, a few years ago) the machine got so blazing hot that I had to play with an external keyboard. After a few days of doing that I figured that having the laptop that hot for extended periods of time wasn't a good idea and quit playing…
I ran into this same issue. I've been quite fond of the idea of external gpus for this exact reason.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tom's Hardware nicely demonstrated the non-linearity of power consumption in their desktop GTX1060 review: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-... At factory settings the card draws 120W and pushes ~110fps in their 1440p test, but throttling the power limit down to just 60W only reduced it to ~90fps. (As an aside, the AMD RX480 comparison shows why people are disappointed with Apple supposedly…
I just don't understand why Apple seems to prefer AMD. Bad experience with Nvidia's drivers in the old Core Two Duo MBPs? Does AMD have a better track record?
Could be a lot of things:
Power consumption, optimization for non-DirectX drivers, AMD could meet the parts demand from Apple.
Apple ha(d) really specific requirements for their machines, so I don't doubt the decision was a result of whatever specification being met by AMD and not Nvidia at the time. Nvidia seems pretty happy in cornering the high-end market and can barely keep the 1000 series in stock at the moment.
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#44"Gears of War 4 looks amazing in 4K"
Why would you put a 1.920px × 1.080px screenshot next to that?
4K = 4096 × 2160 Pixel
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#45I think this is a sign they're worried about AMD Polaris. Most people don't realize just how much AMD has turned around the past year. I saw an article recently about people shorting Nvidia.
Full disclosure: I'm an AMD stock holder.
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#46Well, it makes sense. If you're going with a dedicated graphics card in your laptop, battery life is already out of the window, so you might as well get as much processing power as the thing can handle. As a proud owner of a laptop that could double as a self-defense weapon to cause massive blunt trauma (and a charger that falls squarely into the same category) I welcome this decision. I am however considering gettin…
I recently switched from an 18" luggable gaming laptop to a surface book. Powerful enough to replace it (I got the version with an nvidia GPU in the base that it switches to dynamically), but small and light and good battery life too.
Re: Nvidia stuffs desktop GTX 1080, 1070, 1060 into laptops, drops the “M”
#47"Gears of War 4 looks amazing in 4K" Why would you put a 1.920px × 1.080px screenshot next to that? 4K = 4096 × 2160 Pixel
When people talk about 4K they usually mean (whether they know it or not) UHDTV, which is the standard used in consumer monitors and TVs and in which 4K = 3840x2160.
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#49Besides gaming, anyone has used this beefy laptops to run GPU intensive machine learning algorithms? I am curious to see if it's practical to use a gaming laptop vs. a desktop to run tensorflow calculations.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just don't understand why Apple seems to prefer AMD. Bad experience with Nvidia's drivers in the old Core Two Duo MBPs? Does AMD have a better track record?
Could be a lot of things: Power consumption, optimization for non-DirectX drivers, AMD could meet the parts demand from Apple. Apple ha(d) really specific requirements for their machines, so I don't doubt the decision was a result of whatever specification being met by AMD and not Nvidia at the time. Nvidia seems pretty happy in cornering the high-end market and can barely keep the 1000 series in stock at the moment.
Alternative options: NVidia is too expensive per unit or most Apple customers could care less about dedicated graphics. I think the latter is most likely - they don't sell their products on specs.