Thursday, October 11th 2018
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20-series Mobility mGPU Lineup Revealed
NVIDIA is giving finishing touches to its first GeForce RTX 20-series Mobility GPUs for notebooks, based on the "Turing" architecture, with product launches expected from Q1-2019. The company could debut the series with a high-end part first, the GeForce RTX 2080 Mobility Max-Q. The rest of the lineup includes the RTX 2070 Mobility Max-Q, RTX 2060 Ti Mobility, RTX 2060 Mobility, RTX 2050 Ti Mobility, and RTX 2050 Mobility. What's interesting about this list is that NVIDIA is limiting the Max-Q design to its top-tier RTX 2080 Mobility and RTX 2070 Mobility parts.
Max-Q is an all-encompassing laptop thermal-design methodology, which allows gaming notebook designers to come up with thinner notebooks with higher performance. One of the key aspects is special Max-Q ready variants of the GPUs, which are probably binned to run the coolest, and least voltages. With a device ID 1eab, the RTX 2080 Mobility Max-Q is based on the TU104M chip, while other SKUs could be carved from the TU106M or a chip even smaller. It's being reported that with this generation, NVIDIA is playing a more active role in helping its partners engineer their Max-Q notebooks, and helping them meet NVIDIA's strict Z-height minimums.
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WCCFTech
Max-Q is an all-encompassing laptop thermal-design methodology, which allows gaming notebook designers to come up with thinner notebooks with higher performance. One of the key aspects is special Max-Q ready variants of the GPUs, which are probably binned to run the coolest, and least voltages. With a device ID 1eab, the RTX 2080 Mobility Max-Q is based on the TU104M chip, while other SKUs could be carved from the TU106M or a chip even smaller. It's being reported that with this generation, NVIDIA is playing a more active role in helping its partners engineer their Max-Q notebooks, and helping them meet NVIDIA's strict Z-height minimums.
16 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20-series Mobility mGPU Lineup Revealed
'Nvidia is playing a more active role' - that alone should be read as a big fat warning sign.
Sure, I'd love an RTX 1050 mobile, but that's really unlikely.
but TU106 has rt cores and that will be 2060Ti and maybe 2060 too.
TU116 may have tensor and rt removed.
2080: 111%
1080: 108%
2080Ti: 99%
1080Ti: 95%
?
That may not be much, but it's still better.
And then...RTX and Tensor cores are designed to be way more effective in particular tasks. They'll improve performance/W further in such scenarios. Otherwise they're idle.
If you put the RTX and Tensor parts away, it's really just a Pascal refresh.
But the "not worse" result is fairly important for notebooks. This means manufacturers will be able to just replace 10-series with 20-series without much intervention to design of cooling etc.
Pascal gave us a huge jump of GPU performance in ultrabooks and thin gaming laptops. It's great this won't be reverted by the new generation. :-)