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Nvidia Battery Boost - Double the battery life of laptop

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Nvidia announces Battery Boost, a technology that Nvidia says will double teh battery life of laptops running Nvidia graphic card.

It is only in the GeForce GTX 800M series.

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Profile per game, to show how to set it up:

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The way it works is that it automatically throttle the laptop CPU, GPU, and memory to save power, and have them render fewer frames every second, exchanging whole system performance for extended battery life.

The idea is that if you play a game at 120fps, you can throttle the system down to 60fps, if if you don't play an FPS game, or you can live with 30fps, you can do that.

AnanTech shares the supported GPUs:

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Source 1: http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2014/3/12/5499518/nvidia-wants-to-let-you-play-games-with-your-laptop-unplugged

Source 2: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7834/nvidia-geforce-800m-lineup-battery-boost

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Only for the 800 series?Hmmm...is the 800 series a revamp or is it new stuff?

Also : fix your title : B oost

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Why would you game on a laptop battery?

if you have to insist you think for yourself, i'm not going to believe you.

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Why would you game on a laptop battery?

uhm, because there are people that travel alot and arent near a wallwart all the time... pretty stupid question...

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uhm, because there are people that travel alot and arent near a wallwart all the time... pretty stupid question...

What does Walmart have anything to do with it?

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It's nice to have the option I guess, but I think I personally would find it pretty situational. My current laptop gets most of its gaming when I'm in a hotel or at the airport, where I can usually find an outlet so I'm not using the battery anyway. *shrug*

 

I don't think this is a terrible idea or anything though.

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uhm, because there are people that travel alot and arent near a wallwart all the time... pretty stupid question...

Why would you game on a battery that might last a half hour or a little more?

 

Right, I forgot that storing power was perfected so we can all play games on a laptop battery for 8+ hours. [/sarcasm]

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wait wait wait

there is NO WAY

an 840M will use only 2 watts more than using a 4400 iGPU

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Only for the 800 series?Hmmm...is the 800 series a revamp or is it new stuff?

Also : fix your title : B oost

It's all new stuff. It's a new architecture jump. Maxwell is it's architecture code name. The 750 Ti is Maxwell based.

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Why would you game on a laptop battery?

This ^

 

+ why would you game on a laptop anyways ?

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This ^

 

+ why would you game on a laptop anyways ?

sometimes

its convenience

 

but yeah stupid to game on a battery except if its like an emulator or something :P

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It's all new stuff. It's a new architecture jump. Maxwell is it's architecture code name. The 750 Ti is Maxwell based.

 

If we're talking about mobile GPUs, anything above a 860M is a Kepler refresh, apparently. If you're talking about desktop GPUs, you're most likely right.

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This ^

 

+ why would you game on a laptop anyways ?

Cuz a laptop is all some people have/want. Like a couple of my friends. They don't want a desktop (not sure why) so they just get really nice Laptops.

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If we're talking about mobile GPUs, anything above a 860M is a Kepler refresh, apparently. If you're talking about desktop GPUs, you're most likely right.

Sorry I should have made that clear. I was talking about the desktop Maxwell GPU's. I didn't know that the mobile 800 series GPU's were still Kepler though. That is pretty bad as Maxwell has much better power efficiency then Kepler does.

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I do not have a 800M series notebook but fuck you Nvidia, at least show linux some love.

Signatures are stupid.

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This ^

 

+ why would you game on a laptop anyways ?

 

As someone who owns an Alienware M11x R2 I can say because I can. I bought it cause I needed something for my photography that would allow me to work as fast as at home without having to lug around something massively heavy with my already massively heavy camera gear, however, It means that I can now game at friends houses or they can game at mine without having to lug around a desktop... cause lugging my desktop is not the best option (Seeing as its in an Antec P280)

 

And that is only my reason, there are 100's more of genuine reasons. 

 

P.S: I will ALWAYS game on my desktop if I have a preference btw

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meh you can do this already by just manually changing the setting except for the fps change.

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This ^

 

+ why would you game on a laptop anyways ?

 

 

As someone who owns an Alienware M11x R2 I can say because I can. I bought it cause I needed something for my photography that would allow me to work as fast as at home without having to lug around something massively heavy with my already massively heavy camera gear, however, It means that I can now game at friends houses or they can game at mine without having to lug around a desktop... cause lugging my desktop is not the best option (Seeing as its in an Antec P280)

 

And that is only my reason, there are 100's more of genuine reasons. 

 

P.S: I will ALWAYS game on my desktop if I have a preference btw

 

The original question, if asked in 2004, would make more sense.  However today, my G75VX with a 670MX and unlocked max overclock can literally play BF4 on all high settings, with the exception of Texture Details (those are Ultra, due to 3 GB VRAM), at 1080p, 60 FPS.

 

We are no longer in the era of "Yea, we can play games on laptops, but at a quarter of the resolution and lowest details only".

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What does Walmart have anything to do with it?

lol walmart. he said w a l l w a r t

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Why would you game on a laptop battery?

On a very long flight. (assuming any of us leave our homes and go traveling)

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Why would you game on a laptop battery?

well if u are on the go like in a car or a bus or train in australia i have never seen power point on a bus or a train but i think in america they have them.

 

What does Walmart have anything to do with it?

i read it as walmart too lmao.

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Why would you game on a laptop battery?

 

I dunno maybe you are out somewhere and you feel like doing some light gaming. that could be what a person might do.

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Why would you game on a laptop battery?

 

I DUNNO! When you travel maybe? hmmm...

 

People sometimes.

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