NVIDIA is about to release a Pascal-based GPU for notebooks. This means that gamers will soon experience the most powerful video cards to date on laptops, and it is expected to arrive soon.
Videocarz was able to get their hands on a leaked product page of an upcoming laptop from MSI, with model GT83VR TITAN SLI that features a dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080. It was also noted that NVIDIA has decided to use the same naming scheme on their mobile series, which is speculated to offer performance similar to its desktop counterpart.
The mobile version of the video card will be based on the GP104 GPU chip and will arrive with 8GB GDDR5X RAM with a 256-bit bus. Its clock speed remains to be unknown but is capable of delivering 9,300 points in the 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra benchmark test.
Additionally, an image of the innards of a CLEVO P870DM3-G laptop, another upcoming notebook from another manufacturer, was also leaked and it shows how the dual-GTX 1080 is installed. Based on the image, it does not use the traditional MXM (Mobile PCI Express Module) form factor but rather uses a custom circuit board that was also manufactured by the laptop maker. No NVIDIA markings are visible in the picture.
WCCFTech added that the product page also mentions a 20 percent increase in performance with the single GTX 1080 variant of the laptop against the previous Titan X (Maxwell), while the SLI version offers an 80 percent increase in performance. The results are not surprising since Pascal-based graphic cards are more efficient than previous generation.
The GTX 1080 mobile version also contains 2560 CUDA Cores, 7.2 billion transistors and based on the 16nm FinFET manufacturing process. It offers 10,000 MHz memory clock speed and offers 320 GB/s memory bandwidth.
No release date has been announced so far from the companies mentioned. It is also expected that ASUS and other laptop manufacturers will follow soon with an announcement of their own GTX 1080-equipped gaming laptops.
