Gaming on the go just got more interesting with the reveal of the NVidia GeForce GTX 960M and the GeForce GTX 950M. The company claims these GPU’s should allow for extreme gaming on laptops that are under an inch thick, a real success should it turn out to be true.
The GeForce GTX 960M is based on Maxwell, and it comes with 640 CUDA cores along with a clock speed of 1096MHz. When things get heated, the rate of the GPU can be boosted, but we are not certain up to how far at this time.
When it comes down to memory, the GTX 960M is rocking 128-bit memory bus and GDDR5 up at 2500MHz maximum. That is quite fast for a mobile GPU, and we are certain it should allow for better performances when compared to the GPU’s in the Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
When it comes down to the GeForce 950M, it is quite similar to the more powerful GTX 960M, it is rocking the same CUDA and memory bus. However, the clock speed is slower at 914MHz. This GPU can also run on DDR3, which means it would be running at slow clock speeds when compared to running on GDDR5.
Both GPU’s comes with a feature called BatteryBoost. This is nothing new, but NVIDIA CORP (NASDAQ: NVDA) is claiming it is better than ever, so we are itching to see what it brings to the table. For those who are unaware, BatteryBoost allows the GPU to eat less battery life while away from the wall.
Despite this, true PC gamers playing on a laptop knows that no amount of BatteryBoost is good enough right now, so being attached to the wall will always be a must unless drastic changes are brought to battery design in the future.
One thing we need to mention here, both GPU’s support Direct X12, so players won’t miss out on what Microsoft is planning to bring forth before the end of the year.
Source: [NVIDIA]
