{"id":79865,"date":"2015-08-12T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=79865"},"modified":"2015-08-12T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T08:19:29","slug":"nvidia-announces-gtx-990m-to-be-more-powerful-than-gtx-980m-sli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/79865-nvidia-announces-gtx-990m-to-be-more-powerful-than-gtx-980m-sli","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA announces GTX 990M: to be more powerful than GTX 980M SLI"},"content":{"rendered":"

With their R9 Nano, AMD easily has the most powerful mini-ITX GPU<\/a>, and by a long way \u2013 NVIDIA\u2019s closest competitor is the GTX 970.<\/p>\n

Small as mini-ITX GPUs are, however, mobile GPUs are a whole different board game, and it\u2019s there where NVIDIA wants to hold onto the throne with their upcoming mobility GPU flagship, the GTX 990M.<\/p>\n

Based on the GM204, the same GPU that powers the GTX 970<\/a>, 980<\/a> and 980M<\/a>, website NotebookCheck<\/a> is reporting that NVIDIA has unveiled the GTX 990M, currently codenamed \u201cN16E-GXX\u201d, at a Chinese conference.<\/p>\n

\"GTX<\/a><\/p>\n

For the moment, the title \u201cGTX 990M\u201d is an educated guess. Given that NVIDIA has yet to label any of their current range of GPUs with the \u201c5\u201d suffix, having only used intervals of 10 in their naming scheme, we\u2019re guessing that it won\u2019t be called the GTX 985M.<\/p>\n

What we do know is that the GTX 990M won\u2019t be available via an MXM<\/a> solution, meaning that the GPU will be soldered directly to the motherboard and, thus, you won\u2019t be able to upgrade or replace it.<\/p>\n

Advantageous as using the MXM 3 standard can be, it does have a power limitation, a TDP of 100W. NVIDIA has suggested that the GTX 990M may have a TDP as high as 185W, which is a lot more than MXM can handle \u2013 it also raises concerns of appropriate cooling.<\/p>\n

The question of cooling will come down to notebook manufacturers and their preferred method. As far as spec and performance is concerned, that\u2019s where NVIDIA comes in, and they\u2019re claiming that the GTX 990M may very well exceed the performance of the GTX 980M SLI.<\/p>\n

\"GTX<\/a>

The end goal for NVIDIA is a mobility part that comes as close as possible to its non-mobility counterpart.<\/p><\/div>\n

The GTX 980M\u2019s performance is around the same as a standard non-mobility GTX 980, meaning that the GTX 990M may well offer superior performance. It\u2019s for that reason that some are speculating that the GTX 990M may, in fact, use a cut down GM200 GPU \u2013 the same GPU responsible for the mighty GTX 980 Ti<\/a> and GTX Titan X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Either way, performance like that is going to come at a premium, and initial reports are suggesting a mobility graphics card that will cost almost twice as much as the GTX 980M<\/p>\n

If you can afford it and the notebook that packs it, then you\u2019re going to be in a very good place.<\/p>\n

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Source: Hexus.net<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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AMD\u2019s amazing ultra-small PC, the Quantum, may not happen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new mobility GPU king.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":79867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2420,15241,47,15237,15235,1085,15239,1969,45],"class_list":["post-79865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-geforce","tag-gm204","tag-gpu","tag-gtx-980m-sli","tag-gtx-990m","tag-hardware-2","tag-n16e-gxx","tag-news-2","tag-nvidia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}