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

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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. 

straight from nvidia..... http://www.legitreviews.com/geforce-gtx-980-ti-dx12-feature-level-and-tier-details_164782 ....look at first picture  ... even they say Async is important...

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I can't see them calling it the 990m. I the 90 level cards are usually dual gpu solutions.

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This sounds pretty insane for a laptop. If the price is not that insane I can finally say that it might make sense for a gamer to get one. If you can find a laptop with this under 2k, seriously worthy.

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straight from nvidia..... http://www.legitreviews.com/geforce-gtx-980-ti-dx12-feature-level-and-tier-details_164782 ....look at first picture  ... even they say Async is important...

Straight from AMD:

Asynchronous shading isn't simply whether or not a workload can contain compute and graphics. It's whether or not that workload overlay graphics and compute, processing them both simultaneously without the pipeline latency getting any longer than the longest job. This is what GCN shows, but Maxwell does not.

As the workloads get more aggressive, the application ultimately crashes as the (Maxwell) architecture cannot complete the workload before Windows terminates the thread (>3000ms hang).

The problem is just the architecture.

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Why 990M? Could be Titan M lol

Or 980M Ti?

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Straight from AMD:

The problem is just the architecture.

microsoft advertised long ago before DX 12 came out huge performance gains... now we know where they come from... i think maxwell was still designed still around DX11 not DX12 as  NV claims... thats why they have trouble now... otherwise they would benefit from it too.... next game that should have DX 12 is Ark : Survival Evolved...nvidia sponsored game runing UE4... got delay because it was poorly optimized.... well aparently they going to use Async Compute as well... https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Programming/Rendering/ShaderDevelopment/AsyncCompute/index.html .. so there u go

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microsoft advertised long ago before DX 12 came out huge performance gains... now we know where they come from... i think maxwell was still designed still around DX11 not DX12 as  NV claims... thats why they have trouble now... otherwise they would benefit from it too.... next game that should have DX 12 is Ark : Survival Evolved...nvidia sponsored game runing UE4... got delay because it was poorly optimized.... well aparently they going to use Async Compute as well... https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Programming/Rendering/ShaderDevelopment/AsyncCompute/index.html .. so there u go

Yep, but I'm expecting the performance in Ark to be more favourable to NVIDIA.

At the moment, I don't know if it constitutes as a reliable benchmarking game for DX12.

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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.

So.... It's not going to drink the battery at all? Since dead workers don't drink water.

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So.... It's not going to drink the battery at all? Since dead workers don't drink water.

 

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why do laptops get so much vram

 

To justify the price point & "future proofing" ?

 

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To justify the price point & "future proofing" ?

 

:unsure:  :huh:

except when it uses 8GB of ram at like 8k the gpu would be too slow. when did we go back to more vram = faster card

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except when it uses 8GB of ram at like 8k the gpu would be too slow. when did we go back to more vram = faster card

When game devs suddenly stopped doing texture and model streaming like an intelligent person would and instead collectively decided to load nearly everything onto the video card at once even though most of the data isn't in use at the time.

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It's funny that people are saying "RIP battery", when dedicated graphics aren't really designed to be used when on battery, that's what integrated is for.

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It's funny that people are saying "RIP battery", when dedicated graphics aren't really designed to be used when on battery, that's what integrated is for.

That's exactly why they're saying 'RIP battery' - it's basically a desktop 980.

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I have no idea what is going on here..

(why is everyone saying "RIP naming scheme" and "because GTX 985 is a terrible name" and stuff??)

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I have no idea what is going on here..

(why is everyone saying "RIP naming scheme" and "because GTX 985 is a terrible name" and stuff??)

People don't like the naming scheme but I find it good enough and it's simple.

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People don't like the naming scheme but I find it good enough and it's simple.

Well the 990M is better than the 980M, so it makes sense I guess.

Maybe people are saying it sucks because GTX 690 for example was 2 GTX 680's and stuff like that..

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I have no idea what is going on here..

(why is everyone saying "RIP naming scheme" and "because GTX 985 is a terrible name" and stuff??)

NVIDIA has usually affiliated the x90 name with their dual GPU cards. An example of this is NVIDIA's GTX 590 and 690 - both dual GPU solutions.

I must confess, I'm only going off the article's alleged claims of the name being 990M as there is no announced name of this new mobile GPU. But since desktop and mobile GPUs are two entirely different 'types', the mobile GPUs may not be following the conventional names of the desktop line-up.

As for why 985M is a terrible name, probably just an opinion. But the gap between this unannounced card and the previous mobile flagship, the 980M, is too big to just name it as an 'extension' of that card.

The possible name 'candidates' of this card would be the 990M, a mobile 'Titan' or a 'Ti' variant...

But people need to stop worrying about the naming scheme and just look at the raw power of this thing. It's a beast!

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So do the 965m and desktop gtx 960 preform the same since one is GM204 and the other is GM206, but they have the same "specs" as each other?

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This would be awesome not just for laptops, but for small form factor and all in one PCs

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Battery is going from 100 to 0 Real quick

*With a revolutionary 30 minute battery life*

tbt to those 2007 gaming laptops tho

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