Tuesday, 30 May 2017

Nvidia’s Max-Q tech is for powerful gaming laptops that don’t look like gaming laptops

Nvidia has announced Max-Q at Computex Taipei today, a new design approach that’s intended to enable thin, light, and quiet laptops with strong gaming performance. The company says that the Max-Q spec can cut the power consumption of a GTX 1080 in half, for example, allowing it to be used in an ultraportable notebook.

Nvidia is working from the principle that you get diminishing returns at some point when increasing performance capability, and Max-Q software figures out the optimal point to target. That GTX 1080 with half the power consumption is the exact same chip you’d find in a bulky gaming laptop today, but Nvidia says it should achieve about 90 percent of the performance in a thin and light design. Each Max-Q laptop requires the...

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https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/30/15711298/nvidia-max-q-thin-light-gaming-laptops

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http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/05/nvidias-max-q-tech-is-for-powerful.html

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