NVIDIA has announced on its official blog that its latest line of VR-ready graphics cards are now available in select gaming notebooks. These notebook variants of the GeForce GTX 1080, 1070, and budget 1060 run on the same Pascal architecture as their desktop variants, and include the same VRWorks features.
In a press release, NVIDIA expanded what the 10-series for notebooks means for performance:
“Compared with prior-generation Maxwell architecture-based GPUs, the new GTX 10-Series GPUs for notebooks deliver up to 75 percent more performance right out of the box. And with the Dual-FET power supply and multi-phased power controllers, they offer more than 3x the overclocking potential, for even faster performance.”
The Battery Boost tech which was first seen in the 900-series GeForce graphics cards will also be coming to the new notebook 10-series GPUs. Battery Boost is NVIDIA’s proprietary system of performance regulation when gaming on battery power to maximise potential battery life.
Notebook manufacturers who will be carrying GTX 10-series-equipped gaming notebooks include Acer, Alienware, ASUS, Clevo, EVGA, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, MSI, Origin, Razer, Sager and XMG. We’ll stay updated with prices and performance benchmarks of specific VR-ready notebooks when they become available.
