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  • A Maxwell Goes Mobile: First GeForce GTX 970M Benchmarks

    - in Articles > Graphics

    Earlier this year, Nvidia introduced its first Maxwell-based GPUs for the mobile space. Today, the company follows up with higher-end graphics processors employing what it’s calling a second-generation iteration of the architecture

  • A GeForce GTX 880M, 870M, And 860M: Mobile GPUs, Tested

    - in Articles > Notebooks

    Results: Far Cry 3 Performance improvements inherent to the GeForce GTX 870M continue to impress us in Far Cry 3, where that particular flavor of GK104 starts looking like the minimum performance standard for QHD-equipped machines. Most mobile gamers

    How We Test Nvidia's GeForce GTX 800M Graphics .11b/g/n + Bluetooth v4.0+LE Combo Half Mini-Card module Power Chicony A12-230P1A: 100-240 VAC to 19.5 VDC, 11.8 A System Software OS Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium x64 GeForce GTX 800M Graphics Nvidia GeForce Mobile 337.50 WHQL GeForce

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    Results: Arma 3 Arma 3’s Standard preset is easy for both generations of high-end mobile GPUs to work through, though users of 3D Vision-capable displays might want to avoid the older GeForce GTX 765M due to its lower performance. Frame rates

    Results: 3DMark Some readers like to use 3DMark as a yardstick, and our previous mobile graphics round-up proved its adequacy for that purpose. The relatively smooth progression of performance is a little different than what our real-world benchmarks

    Is The GeForce GTX 800M-Series A Better Buy? Focusing on Nvidia's newest GeForce GTX 800M-series graphics modules and Origin PC's mobile platform for today’s performance analysis simplifies the value comparison for us, since we only need to look one place for our pricing. Granted

    Introducing The GeForce GTX 800M-Series Sometimes it feels like desktop gamers get all of the cool toys, while the notebook guys get hand-me-downs. Rare is it that a new graphics processor debuts in the mobile space. There's just so much more involved when you bring technology

    Results: Battlefield 4 Although Battlefield 4's single-player campaign is mostly graphics-bound, our benchmark isn't a problem for these variations of Nvidia's GK104 GPU, though the GeForce GTX 765M gets a little sluggish at 1920x1080 using the High quality pr...

    Results: F1 2012 And Tomb Raider F1 2012 and Tomb Raider are the only two games in today’s suite that don't include frame rate over time charts, so we're combining both titles on one page. The first test, F1 2012, is primarily bottlenecked by system memory at its High ...

    Results: Metro: Last Light My notes show that only Nvidia's GeForce GTX 880M is able to hold Metro: Last Light frame rates above 20 FPS throughout the test at 2560x1600, and even then only at mid-range quality with advanced features disabled. The funny thing is th...

    Average Performance And Efficiency The GK106-equipped GeForce GTX 770M appears out of place compared to GK104-based 880M, 780M, and 860M models. That's one reason we need to stay cautious about references to the GeForce GTX 860M, which is available as two different GPUs. ...

  • A Mobile Haswell Celeron CPU's arriving Q4 2013

    - in Articles > Laptops

    , rather than a 1333MHz as on the older B840. Both chips have 2MB of cache memory and on die Intel HD Graphics. While mobile Haswell CPUs can be expected as early as Q2 2013, this will only include the more expensive quadcore CPUs

  • A GeForce GTX 780M, 770M, And 765M: Scaling Vs. Radeon HD 8970M

    - in Articles > Mobile Gaming

    Getting A Bead On Mobile Graphics Performance Sometimes it's hard to know how a mobile graphics processor will perform based on its name alone. Both AMD and Nvidia refer to their mobile solutions using branding very similar to their desktop parts. To help us nail down expectations

    Can The Fastest Mobile GPU Also Help Maximize Value? Today's tests show that Nvidia has the fastest single-GPU notebook solution in its GeForce GTX 780M. The catch is that getting it into your mobile platform adds about $750 to its price (as much as an actual GeForce GTX 780 Ti, the fastest

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    Benchmarking Configurations -Card module Power Chicony A12-230P1A: 100-240 VAC to 19.5 VDC, 11.8 A System Software OS Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium x64 Nvidia Graphics Nvidia GeForce Mobile 332.21 WHQL AMD Graphics AMD Catalyst Mobility 13.12 The top

    Results: Arma 3 Arma 3’s Standard quality preset is light enough to allow all high-end mobile GPUs to play through 2560x1600. But the task gets far more difficult at the game's Ultra preset. The GeForce GTX 770M achieves smooth frame rates

    Results: Battlefield 4 8970M at each resolution in our average frame rate chart, the minimum frame rate numbers show Nvidia's mobile flagship dipping a little lower.

    Overall Performance And Efficiency , the Radeon HD 8970M is also more efficient than the range of mobile GPUs from Nvidia that we tested today. But GPUs don’t run themselves, and platform price has a larger impact on overall value than what you'll pay for any individual module

  • A Sony Debuts Hybrid Ultrabook, Mobile Tabletop PC, More

    - in Articles > Notebooks

    With Windows 8 just around the corner, we're starting to see a huge wave of devices gearing up to flood the retail channel later this month. Sony is the latest to reveal its goods, introducing its first mobile Tabletop PC for the U

  • A Ultrabook: Behind How Intel is Remaking Mobile Computing

    - in Articles > Intel

    The Ultrabook Idea's Thin Beginnings ). There were bulky mobile workstations. There were ho-hum thin-and-lights. Efforts to craft svelte, exciting mobile platforms had been gathering headlines for years...but not many sales. Battery life was often insufficient for airplane travel

    Hello, Metro Mobile Metro. The notebook measured only 17 mm thick—less than today’s Ultrabook spec—and weighed 2.25 lbs. Done up in a champagne-toned magnesium alloy with LG-like dark chocolate interior, the Metro was a sexy machine and decidedly un

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    A New Conversation ,” this was a tough, necessary, and arguably overdue dialogue for the company’s top ranks. It was, at bottom, a crystal ball get-together. What were future usages of the PC going to be? Karen Regis is a mobile marketing manager at Intel who has been

    Slimming Down: The Components Were Key are in the mix), the Ultrabook effort took root. In February 2013, industry analysis firm iSupply predicted that “shipments of Ultrabooks and ultrathins in 2013 will climb to a 28 percent share of the total mobile PC space, up from just 9 percent last

    Figuring Out That Touch Would Become Important in two different interface paradigms within a single OS, but it was enough to show me the direction that Intel, Microsoft, and others were trying to take mobile computing. “We knew that with the rise of all these other devices

    Heading Into the Fourth Generation 's feature set was molded around certain mobile goals. Improved efficiency means that a battery's capacity goes that much further, even before taking new design elements into consideration. According to Intel, most devices will see over nine hours

    Intel's Calculated Gamble at a public wholly unused to such functionality in this device class. The decision was informed, but it’s by no means a sure bet. “When we did Centrino, we based its definition on extensive mobile user research,” notes Karen Regis. “Yet

    What Was Wrong With Mobile Computing? Throughout these investigations, Intel was searching for the Holy Grail that would make the PC easier, more fun, more immersive, more capable—more of everything good while being physically less intrusive. The PC needed to remain a produc...

    Intel Had To Show It Was Serious... DeLine describes the first 12 months of the Ultrabook initiative as “the duck paddling underwater.” No one could see Intel behind the scenes working on ecosystem investments, consulting with OEMs, and addressing concerns and skepticism—l...

    Dissecting An Ultrabook Before touching on Haswell, I thought it might be enlightening to take you on a tour of an Ultrabook’s innards. Intel had a well-worn demo unit laying around that it volunteered to let me put under the knife. I’ve worked inside of notebo...

  • A HGST Travelstar 7K1000 Review: A 1 TB Notebook Drive At 7200 RPM

    - in Articles > Notebooks

    HGST's 1 TB Mobile Drive, Spinning At 7200 RPM and a 6 Gb/s SATA interface. The manufacturer specifies a wide range of applications for the Travelstar 7K1000: notebooks, desktop PCs, compact gaming PCs, video devices, and mobile storage. Combining high-density platters with a fast

    Results: Access Time And I/O Performance optimized for mobile applications) are unsuitable for I/O-intensive workloads, particularly in a world of affordable SSDs, we still run four stock Iometer profiles to determine the I/O throughput of each disk. Spinning at 7200 RPM only

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    A Well-Balanced Drive We Can't Wait To Compare To Seagate's SSHD By adding the Travelstar 7K1000 HTS721010A9E630 to its model range, HGST delivers a very fast 2.5" drive, which helps address the perpetual problem facing mobile user with just one bay for storage: do you drop in a smaller, pricier SSD

  • A MSI GT70 Dragon Edition 2 By Xotic PC: Haswell Goes Mobile

    - in Articles > Laptops

    MSI GT70 Dragon Edition 2: A Gaming Notebook For The One Percent Unlike the MSI GX60 we recently reviewed, which sought to maximize mobile gaming performance as inexpensively as possible, the company spared no expense on its GT70 Dragon Edition 2. And after MSI laid a foundation with its barebones

    Test System Specs And Benchmark Suite Test System Specs Synthetic and gaming tests are performed on the MSI GT70 Dragon Edition 2, Eurocom Panther 5D, and Alienware M18x. The Dragon uses Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 780M mobile GPU, while the M18x employs the previous

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    Results: 3DMark out ahead of the -3940XM, but the difference is only around 7%. The desktop processor in Eurocom's Panther is 20% faster than both mobile CPUs. 3DMark Vantage lowers the number of advanced rendering features, allowing

    Results: Real-World Productivity And Media Apps 70 is the certainly the fastest notebook of the bunch. But with an overclocked version of the best mobile CPU Intel can make, it had better be. The advantage in threaded workloads is actually smaller than we expected, and it's possible that this platform isn

    Battlefield 3, BioShock Infinite, CoD: Black Ops II, And Crysis 3 , the platform starts to impede graphics performance.  Stepping down to Low details, a processor bottleneck absolutely limits the performance of Nvidia's most modern mobile graphics chips. The Eurocom system's six-core desktop

    DiRT: Showdown, Hitman: Absolution, And Sniper Elite V2 quality preset, each card is able to deliver playable frame rates at every setting. Throttling down to the High quality preset changes very little about the placing of these three mobile platforms. Dropping to Medium

    Tomb Raider, Total War: Shogun 2, And WoW: Mists Of Pandaria preset. If you were to, however, performance would shoot up palpably. It takes a GeForce GTX 780M to cause Intel's fastest Haswell-based mobile processor to show up as a bottleneck in this game. The lower-end GeForce GTX 680

    Is Xotic PC's Tuned-Up MSI GT70-Based Platform Our New Performance Champ? to get even more performance from Intel's mobile flagship CPU. Even with MSI's NOS technology draining the battery to keep up, this system's paltry 180 W power supply runs out of capacity too quickly. Starting at $2800, the GT70 isn

    Keyboard And Trackpad The GT70's keyboard and trackpad layout is typical of most laptops. The keyboard includes a full number pad, and since the touchpad is centered to the standard portion of the keyboard, it ends up sitting slightly to the left on the palm ...

    GT70 Dragon Edition 2 Exterior: Design And Features The exterior of the Dragon Edition 2 is both striking and well-coordinated. Its lid is brushed red metal with a large dragon logo etched into the surface. A mirrored MSI logo sits in the middle, lighting up bright white when the screen i...

  • A AMD's Kabini: Jaguar And GCN Come Together In A 15 W APU

    - in Articles > Notebooks

    Temash And Kabini: AMD's Mobile Future with silicon that seems to slot in between the Silvermont-based Atom architecture Intel just announced and mid-range mobile CPUs based on the same company's Ivy Bridge design. If you ever wanted a decent Windows-based tablet, and hoped to pay

    Jaguar: A Low-Power x86 Core We've already introduced you to a number of AMD's APU designs, which combine general-purpose and graphics processing resources onto a single die. First it was Llano in the mobile space with The AMD A8-3500M APU Review: Llano Is Unleashed

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    AMD's E-Series and A-Series APUs, Along With Their Bundles to find mobile devices loaded up with software able to expose the products differentiating capabilities. And the idea here appears to be similar. AMD's bundle is tiered according to APU hierarchy. The E2 and A4 families reside

    Power Consumption AMD's Kabini-based APUs cannot be evaluated based on performance alone. This 15 W processor is meant to go into mobile devices driven by batteries, and lower power use translates to more compact and lighter platforms. Let

  • A Intel Discontinues Four Mobile Sandy Bridge CPUs

    - in Articles > Business Computing

    Intel just told its customers that it will be discontinuing four mobile Sandy Bridge processors ranging from the higher-end mainstream, to the very high-end of the market. The affected processors: - Core i7-2620M (2

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