NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 990M: Full GM204 GPU w/ 2048 Cores

[HKZeroFive]

There have been rumors of a Maxwell based GeForce GTX 990M mobility chip being launched soon by NVIDIA. It was revealed that the chip will make its arrival in Q4 2015 but there have been no word about the GeForce GTX 990M aside from some rumored specifications. At IFA 15, Computerbase managed to play around with a ROG 6700 series laptop which ASUS launched a couple of hours ago and they found out that the Maxwell GPU housed inside the laptop had 2048 CUDA cores, confirming that that NVIDIA’s fastest mobility graphics card is going to launch pretty soon.

The GeForce GTX 990M comes with 2048 CUDA cores, 128 texture mapping units and 64 raster operation units. The GeForce GTX 980M featured 1536 CUDA cores, 96 texture mapping units and 64 raster operation units. Additionally, we are looking at 8 GB of GDDR5 memory that operates along a 256-bit bus and clocked at 2500 MHz (5.00 GHz effective) clock speed to pump out 160 GB/s bandwidth.

Turns out, this will have a full GM204 GPU. I think the laptop in question is the water-cooled one if I'm not mistaken, and it seems to fit the idea of having a 4K display with watercooling, so maybe we can expect some overclocking on this card. You can see the laptop here. Still, I'm not sure what think about it...

If NVIDIA manages to put this beast into gaming laptops, without it being overly obtrusive or heavily reliant on cooling (particularly liquid cooling because that doesn't seem to work in an efficient manner), I could see this being a good flagship of the mobile GPUs.

But still. Who is going to buy the GX700 laptop? To anyone who does, I'll shun you forever. You have been warned.

Original Sauce (German): http://www.computerbase.de/2015-09/asus-gx700-wassergekuehltes-laptop-mit-2.048-shader-gpu-von-nvidia/

WCCFTech's Translation: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-990m-full-gm204-gpu-2048-cores-clocked-1190-mhz-rog-gx700/

[ANewFace]

Holy F**k that's a desktop 980

[TrigrH]

I could see this being a very good flagship of the mobile GPUs.

 

huh?

[iFap4Nvidia]

It can also cook your breakfast

[Norman_the_Owl]

990m

 

rip naming scheme

[MegaDave91]

For the low, low price of $2500.

[HKZeroFive]

huh?

 

Yeah, you heard me. It has the potential to be an excellent flagship of the mobile GPUs, if they manage to implement the card into laptops without it being obtrusive or needing to be heavily cooled all the time.

[Sauron]

...so it's a gtx 980 with more vram than its bus can handle. That definitely needed a new name... lol. It's also going to drink your battery like a construction worker after 10 days of work in the desert without water.

[Arty]

Holy F**k that's a desktop 980

#thermals

[Arty]

...so it's a gtx 980 with more vram than its bus can handle. That definitely needed a new name... lol. It's also going to drink your battery like a construction worker after 10 days of work in the desert without water.

Battery is going from 100 to 0 Real quick

[Kherm]

Because GTX 985 is a crappy name. Fuck naming schemes, right?

[soaringchicken]

990m

 

rip naming scheme

unless....there is a desktop 990.....

[CTR640]

Fuck the battery. Back in 2009 I used to have a gaming laptop because I had no place for a desktop PC.

It was really awesome to have the laptop stay on one place, small and comfy and easy. I didn't needed the battery really.

However, the hardware inside were starting to get really hot after 3 years. Since last year I moved on to a gaming desktop.

If I had no gaming desktop and no place, I would have bought one of these.

[Norman_the_Owl]

unless....there is a desktop 990.....

But then it would have to be a dual GPU card

 

you see the whole rip naming now?

[SirSquid]

990m

rip naming scheme

Mobile GPUs get to break the naming schemes.

[soaringchicken]

But then it would have to be a dual GPU card

 

you see the whole rip naming now?

oh yeah, I get it, naming definitely is kill then.

[flibberdipper]

Dat 990C load temp tho

[TrigrH]

Yeah, you heard me. It has the potential to be an excellent flagship of the mobile GPUs,

 

Thought u were talking about phones I was like wtf lol.

[VagabondWraith]

Crazy to think laptops have caught up to desktops in power...

[HKZeroFive]

Thought u were talking about phones I was like wtf lol.

 

Nah, laptop GPUs are called mobile GPUs, I guess because it's 'mobile'.

 

Whenever NVIDIA releases a product with a M on the end of its name (for example, 980M, 970M etc.), it's a mobile/laptop GPU.

[HumbleMelon]

Honestly, I don't know how they'll handle the thermals on this thing without the liquid cooling being some sort of nuisance...

But who cares when you've got POWER!

[HKZeroFive]

Honestly, I don't know how they'll handle the thermals on this thing without the liquid cooling being some sort of nuisance...

But who cares when you've got POWER!

True, I guess that'll be the big selling point of this card. Power in a laptop.

But all that water cooling, according to @GoodBytes, is going to get you sent to Guantanamo Bay. It's ridiculous.

[FroggyTaco]

It could also be used in MSI "Gaming AIO" or higher specced iMacs if they ever get off the AMD kick they are on currently. 

[HumbleMelon]

It could also be used in MSI "Gaming AIO" or higher specced iMacs if they ever get off the AMD kick they are on currently.

I somehow doubt that Apple would opt for NVIDIA GPUs such as this one anyway. It doesn't fit their design and form factor, and how will they be able to cool It?

[TroubleKlef]

and who said being power efficient was overrated? Glad to see more mobile solutions becoming more and more powerful.