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

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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?

I would assume the same way they cooled the GTX680M & GTX780M & the current M295X in the past 3 years of 27" iMac's.

 

All of those where the "flagship" mobile GPU's & put out the most heat in the mobile line-up when released & sold in the corresponding iMac.

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...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.

Are we really still kvetching over bus width? Net bandwidth is all that matters. A 256-bit bus at 10GHz is equivalent to a 512 at 5GHz. That said I know Nvidia's VRAM operates at either 6 or 7GHz for mobile, but the point still stands.

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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?

Passive liquid cooling. They're nixing the fan and turning the entire aluminum chassis into a passive heat sink with a flat-pipe fluid pump system inside. It shall be as gloriously quiet and powerful as the Mac Pro 2 cooling system. All hail Steve Jobs who guides us and shelters us even now from the heathens of Windows. May our immunity to viruses never falter, and may our specs always be better. Amen.

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I would assume the same way they cooled the GTX680M & GTX780M & the current M295X in the past 3 years of 27" iMac's.

 

All of those where the "flagship" mobile GPU's & put out the most heat in the mobile line-up when released & sold in the corresponding iMac.

If I recall correctly, the M295X was reported to hit constant temperatures of 100 degrees Celsius in the 5K iMac.

Although this is pretty much a desktop 980, I willing to bet that cooling system will not be a viable option in the near future.

Passive liquid cooling. They're nixing the fan and turning the entire aluminum chassis into a passive heat sink with a flat-pipe fluid pump system inside. It shall be as gloriously quiet and powerful as the Mac Pro 2 cooling system. All hail Steve Jobs who guides us and shelters us even now from the heathens of Windows. May our immunity to viruses never falter, and may our specs always be better. Amen.

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I mean the 980 full desktop is only 185W and I'm sure the mobile will come in closer to 150W, so when you consider that the 980m and the m295x are already running 122-125W and the former comes in sli I really don't understand how anyone could question the usability of this.

Now is it a better idea than 970m or 980m sli? Probably not. Will it consume less power and then not deal with sli issues? fuck yes.

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And I am in the market for a new laptop!!

 

If this was in something like the GS60 ghost I would be first in line

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Are we really still kvetching over bus width? Net bandwidth is all that matters. A 256-bit bus at 10GHz is equivalent to a 512 at 5GHz. That said I know Nvidia's VRAM operates at either 6 or 7GHz for mobile, but the point still stands.

 

At this point in time I doubt 10ghz is obtainable on gddr5 - hence why the bus width is insufficient. This clearly shows at 4k even on the 4gb version. So sure, if it WAS at 10ghz I wouldn't be mentioning it, but it isn't. Also, in this specific card the frequency is 5ghz, not 7. It has literally half the bandwidth of an r9 290 with twice the vram to handle. Pointless.

 

And I am in the market for a new laptop!!

 

If this was in something like the GS60 ghost I would be first in line

 

Unfortunately I have a feeling the envelope for this will need to be a bit bigger than that :P

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Unfortunately I have a feeling the envelope for this will need to be a bit bigger than that :P

 

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Nice. Now your laptop can be super expensive and also bad at DX12 too.

 

But seriously, it is impressive. I bet next year, when 14/16nm FF chips hit the market, that we will see very high performing laptop chips.

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DX supported: 12, umm... i'm not too sure about that... But whatever :D

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Nice. Now your laptop can be super expensive and also bad at DX12 too.

 

But seriously, it is impressive. I bet next year, when 14/16nm FF chips hit the market, that we will see very high performing laptop chips.

DX supported: 12, umm... i'm not too sure about that... But whatever :D

No, no, no! The benchmarks have bugs in them! The Async Compute wasn't meant to be on! Lies, all of them lies!

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Except it doesn't say anywhere it's called 990M, or am I blind?

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Except it doesn't say anywhere it's called 990M, or am I blind?

Yeah you're right, but since it has more cores and a higher clock rate than the 980M, I think it's safe to call it the successor (aka 990M). Unless you can think of any other name, but I highly doubt they will call it anything else.

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No, no, no! The benchmarks have bugs in them! The Async Compute wasn't meant to be on! Lies, all of them lioxi

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Yeah you're right, but since it has more cores and a higher clock rate than the 980M, I think it's safe to call it the successor (aka 990M). Unless you can think of any other name, but I highly doubt they will call it anything else.

Hm... Maybe 985M, the x90 was always a dual chip iirc. But yes I agree.

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oxide compared nvidia cards with assync off and amd with assync on...nvidias fault that the key feature of DX12 isnt working on their cards

Sarcasm my friend.

Hm... Maybe 985M, the x90 was always a dual chip iirc. But yes I agree.

True, but I guess the x90 series doesn't apply to mobile. But still, this is one beast of a mobile GPU!

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I can I can cook eggs on that laptop

They should market that.

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Holy F**k that's a desktop 980

But what's the tdp? Since, you know... MOBILE

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oxide compared nvidia cards with assync off and amd with assync on...nvidias fault that the key feature of DX12 isnt working on their cards

I am confused. When was Async Compute considered a Key DX12 feature? 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct3D#Direct3D_12

 

If anything, it falls under optional, not mandatory. 

 

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-amd-directx-12-graphic-card-list-features-explained/3/

 

People saying that Maxwell does not support DX12 is odd, because it clearly does. From what i've seen, It supports Async Compute, it just does a poor job at using it when compared to what AMD can do with it. 

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If I recall correctly, the M295X was reported to hit constant temperatures of 100 degrees Celsius in the 5K iMac.

Although this is pretty much a desktop 980, I willing to bet that cooling system will not be a viable option in the near future.

 

 

I think you may be correct however Apple takes a ridiculous stance on low noise at the expense of hardware safety. That can be easily rectified with a 3rd party app called "Macs Fan Control".

 

Also here's a link showing that the aforementioned M295X has a 250W TDP which is crazy for a "mobile" GPU. Since the desktop 980 is 185W I'm going to assume this alleged 990M will be at that TDP level or lower which would be super easy to handle compared to a M295X.

 

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2587/radeon-r9-m295x-mac-edition.html

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