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I, frankly, am not sure it’s going to be enough. I’ll reserve judgement until I see a laptop with a GeForce GTX 960M aboard. Acer, MSI, Clevo and Gigabyte have also said the new GPUs will also turn up in their laptops. Alienware, Asus, HP, Lenovo and Razer have said they’ve “upgraded” their thin gaming laptops to the newer GPU already. Lenovo’s Y50 is also now available with the GeForce GTX 960M.
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The company also said BatteryBoost is improved on the newer parts. Nvidia, however, was reluctant to give us exact performance differences between the new and the old. Its this efficiency that Nvidia is pointing to.
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Although all the chips are based on the same 28nm process and built by TSMC, efficiency and improvements usually pick up as more chips are made. The first batch of chocolate chip cookies may be singed and horribly misshapen, but batch 50 would look like it was made by a Keebler Elf. So what’s the diff? Nvidia said it’s been able to squeeze out more performance by tuning its GPU Boost 2.0, and the parts will also reap the benefits of process improvements. Both are also based on the GM107 Maxwell 1.0 architecture as their predecessors. The other version of the GTX 860M uses the newer Maxwell architecture, but thats mostly an efficiency improvement performance isnt going to be any better, because it uses the same GM107 GPU as the desktop GTX 750 Ti (which is slightly slower than the GTX 660). Spec for spec, in fact, they seem nearly identical except for the clock speeds. If you’re wondering just how different these two parts are from the Maxwell-based GeForce GTX 860M and GeForce GTX 950M, so are we. The Alienware 15 is one of the laptops slated to use the GeForce GTX 960M already.