NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 16 Series Turing Gaming Laptop GPUs (hothardware.com) 22
MojoKid writes: NVIDIA has launched a new family of more budget friendly Turing graphics chips for gaming laptops, called the GeForce GTX 1650, GeForce GTX 1660, and GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. The new GPUs will power roughly 80 different OEM mainstream gaming notebook designs, starting in the $799 price range. Compared to a 4-year-old gaming laptop with a GeForce GTX 960M, NVIDIA says that a modern counterpart equipped with a GeForce GTX 1660 Ti can deliver 4x the performance in today's battle royale-style games like Apex Legends, Fortnite, and PUBG. As for the GeForce GTX 1650, NVIDIA is promising a 2.5x performance advantage compared to the GTX 950M and a 1.7x advantage compared to the previous generation GTX 1050. Gamers should expect consistent 60 fps performance in the above-mentioned gaming titles at 1080p, though the company didn't specifically mention GTX 1660 vs 1060 performance comparisons. According to NVIDIA, every major OEM will be releasing GeForce GTX 16 Series laptops, including well-known brands like ASUS, Dell/Alienware, Acer, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo (among others).
Budget Friendly? (Score:2)
That's a pretty strange definition... $799 is NOT "budget friendly".
Re:Budget Friendly? (Score:5, Interesting)
That's a pretty strange definition... $799 is NOT "budget friendly".
That's the cost of the laptop with the card. Not the card.
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Thanks. Thought it was the price of the card.
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For a laptop? that can (try to) play modernish games?
that's pretty cheap tbh.
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True, but at least gaming laptops are portable. That's a convenience factor for some use cases and people.
If portable gaming is what they want then either an nVidia Shield, Nintendo Switch, or console proper (PS4 / XBox One) might be a cheaper option IMO.
But yeah, gaming laptops are usually gimped in performance.
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This is why an external GPU makes so much more sense. It's lighter and has better battery life due to not having the silly near-useless GPU.
At home if you want to do some gaming or CAD, or whatnot, you have a fully fledged desktop card at your disposal.
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I have a gaming laptop (but it's not "gamer", no shitty LED lights and stupid keyboards, etc.).
It kicks the arse of every laptop I pit it against. I can transcode video, run multiple OS via VMWare simultaneously, and - technically - it can run my entire workplace just from the VMs... sure, it'd all be over a single Gigabit connection but it can do it. And has, sometimes.
It's a top-end powerful laptop.
That it plays "games" is a bonus for me as I don't have another PC (nothing beyond being a basic install o
Marketing genius (Score:2)
"... equipped with a GeForce GTX 1660 Ti can deliver 4x the performance in ... Fortnite."
Marketing genius.
Except Apple? (Score:2)
Still can't flow the tensors on Apple hardware, like we should.