NVIDIA Geforce GTX900M series is Official

It seems like just yesterday that NVIDIA released the messy 800M line-up of mobile graphics processors consisting of a Fermi part, few Kepler parts and a few Maxwell parts. What made it even more confusing was there were two versions of the GTX860M, a Kepler and Maxwell part sharing the same name. The highest end Maxwell part in the line up was the GTX860M, with the GTX870M and GTX880M of the older Kepler architecture. We did review the Maxwell GTX860M’s performance in the Lenovo Y50 and it was rather impressive for a mobile graphics processor.

Now NVIDIA might be attempting to clear up that mess by unveiling of the new Geforce GTX900M series starting with the GTX980M and GTX970M powered by Maxwell. Promising better performance and longer battery life which translate to a more portable gaming machine. And if the new Maxwell parts are anything like their desktop counterparts, they will run a lot cooler compared to their predecessors too.

With the new GPUs, NVIDIA claims that the company has managed to further reduce the gap between desktop and notebook graphics performances. As a comparison, the company stated that the performances between GTX 980M for laptops and GTX 980 for desktop is only around 20% as opposed to two years ago whereby the differences between GTX 680M and GTX 680 were around 40%.

Among the first batch of laptops that will be equipped with the new GeForce GTX 980M and GTX 970M are Aorus X7, Gigabye P35W, ASUS RoG G751, Clevo P150, MSI GS60 and MSI GT72. Below are the technical specifications of the new mobile GPUs.

In terms of the clock speeds and number of CUDA cores not much difference can be seen between the two and their predecessors but I think most of us already have seen how much a difference the Maxwell architecture makes versus the Kepler architecture.

SOURCE: Lowyat.NET, Geforce.com