It's probably a bit too much to assume that 3K gaming at 60 FPS will happen on most titles at maximum quality with the 980M, as games like Metro: Last Light and Crysis 3 can be very taxing, but we're definitely getting close to being able to max out settings on most games. For that reason, NVIDIA is billing the GTX 980M as a mobile GPU that targets playable frame rates at resolutions beyond 1080p, and we'll likely see more high-end notebooks ship with 2560x1440, 3K, or even 4K displays. One of the problems we're starting to run into with mobile GPUs getting so fast is that many laptops still top out at a 1920x1080 display, and even at maximum detail there are plenty of games that will easily break 60 FPS and may start running into CPU bottlenecks. It's also twice as fast as the GTX 860M and 35% faster than GTX 880M on average. The short summary is that GTX 980M is about the same performance level as the desktop GTX 770, though obviously with some newer features like DX12 support and VXGI. Update: our own performance preview of GTX 980M is now available. On average, the GTX 980M outperforms the GTX 970M by 28%, even including the CPU limited games if we ignore StarCraft II and Hitman Absolution the 980M is 34% faster on average. StarCraft II and Hitman Absolution appear to be CPU limited, which isn't too surprising for StarCraft II as it has always been heavily influenced by CPU performance. Most of the games are apparently being run at near maximum quality settings (though Batman is missing 4xMSAA, it does have PhysX enabled), which is good for putting as much of the bottleneck on the GPU as possible.
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As a preview of what to expect, and considering several of the games use the built-in benchmark tools, here's what NVIDIA is reporting all of the following games were tested at 1080p with the settings indicated: NVIDIA Performance Results Upcoming GeForce GTX 980M/970M Notebooksįor their part, NVIDIA has provided performance numbers for both GPUs at different settings in a variety of games, but there's no comparison with other GPUs so the numbers are out of context. In the meantime, here's the current list of notebooks that support the new GPUs.
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We were hoping to have the MSI GT72 prior to today's launch, but as noted earlier it should arrive in the next day (or in a few hours even). We'll post a follow-up Pipeline article as soon as we're able showing performance using some of our standard gaming and graphics benchmarks. Quite a few notebooks should be available for order with the new chips, though it could take a couple weeks or more for orders to process.
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Today's launch of 980M and 970M is about as much of a "hard launch" as we see with notebook GPUs. GTX 980M and 970M Notebooks and Conclusion