1080m release Date?

[alexjt11]

Hi,

Does anyone want to hazard a guess at when they expect the 1080m for laptops will be released?

 

[partypanda64]

I don't think they even announced it yet, but I may be wrong.

[Moonzy]

im interested to know when will pascal mobile gpus be available (as well as polaris)

 

hopefully soon, coz i have a ton of friends asking to buy a laptop and im telling them to wait for the new gen mobile gpus

 

hopefully around june/july

[GreezyJeezy]

2 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

im interested to know when will pascal mobile gpus be available (as well as polaris)

 

hopefully soon, coz i have a ton of friends asking to buy a laptop and im telling them to wait for the new gen mobile gpus

 

hopefully around june/july

im pretty sure polaris will have better price for performance for mobile gpu's since the roumes say its there target 

[PianoPlayer88Key]

My own laptop has a 970M, on an MXM card so I could upgrade later if I wanted to.  (Of course that's assuming what I upgrade to uses the same form factor, connection type, etc.)  If I wanted to right now I could upgrade to a 980M, but it's not worth it to me.  (My particular laptop, the Clevo P750DM-G, doesn't support the GTX 980 Notebook edition GPU.)

 

I'm planning to hang onto the 970M for at least a few years, if not more.  Buying an MXM GPU, I've found, is considerably more expensive than a normal desktop PCI-Express GPU, especially considering the performance.  For example, when I looked before Christmas last year, a 970M was close to $500 and a 980M not all that far from $800.  The performance of the 970M, according to passmark, is somewhere between a 750 Ti and a 950, closer to the 750 Ti.

 

I'm thinking I might consider upgrading the laptop GPU when either, then-current low-end GPUs (like Nvidia xx2x-xx3x or AMD R3-R5 x3x) or iGPUs (like on Celeron/Pentium/Sempron) are faster, or games then < ~$15 can't get more than ~20-30fps at low-med settings at like 640x400 or 720x480.  (I remember playing Team Fortress Classic at 320x240 with lowest settings and getting like 15-20fps back in the day.)

 

I'm guessing that probably won't be before the GeForce 13xx or 14xx series is released, if not later.  And, if it's getting close to time to replace the laptop (which has an LGA1151 socket, 4 DIMM slots, 2 each M.2 and 2.5" HDD bays), then I'd probably do that instead.  I think it'd be unwise to drop $500-800 on a GPU, only to replace the entire laptop a year or two later.  And maybe the new laptop might accept the "new" MXM GPU, but chances are it'd be too early to know.  When I bought this laptop, the discount I would have saved by dropping the GPU was only $340, compared to almost $500 buying the GPU separately.  And, the discrete GPU was required, as the laptop's G-Sync screen doesn't support Intel's iGPU.

[ivan134]

No, i dont want to hazard a guess. 

[alexjt11]

So I decided to do some research. I found that for the GTX 900 series:

GeForce GTX 970 GeForce GTX 980 [41] [55]	September 18, 2014

 

GeForce GTX 970M[84] GeForce GTX 980M[86]	October 7, 2014

 

This is a month difference between the two types of cards.

I then decided to compare this with last generation GTX 700 series:

GeForce GTX 770[26] GeForce GTX 780[28]	May 30, 2013 May 23, 2013

 

GeForce GTX 760M[42] GeForce GTX 765M[43] GeForce GTX 770M[44] GeForce GTX 780M[45]	May 30, 2013

 

This was very interesting to see that they were released on the same day!

So I decided to look all the way back to the GTX 600 series!

And I found that there was no real structure due to the way they released cards at different times and it was pretty sporadic.

 

Any thoughts on what you think it might be? 

 

[alexjt11]

Bump

 

[alexjt11]

So nobody has an opinion?