


Their biggest claim to fame here is that the 800M series can be a staggering 60% faster than their previous 700M cards. It’s the opposite ends of the enthusiast-level product line that are most fascinating to me. Based on my multiple briefings and email assaults from multiple OEMs, it certainly feels like one! As you’ll see in the coming days, a slew of redesigned laptops are on deck from Razer, MSI, Gigabyte, Alienware, Lenovo, and ASUS (including an update to the G750JX, which I billed as damn near perfect already).Īs we saw with the unveiling of Maxwell via the GTX 750 Ti, Nvidia is targeting improvements on a performance-per-watt scale. The 800M series is a top to bottom refresh of Nvidia’s dedicated laptop GPUs, and it’s being positioned as a major launch. Today Nvidia is bringing gaming laptop fans some features they deserve - and enabling even thinner, lighter form factors - via the new GTX 800M series of discrete notebook graphics cards. And while “traditional” desktop and laptop sales slide south, their gaming counterparts are on the rise. Of course if that had any semblance of truth, it wouldn’t be a $25 billion industry - actually edging out global box office receipts by a few million bucks in 2013. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: PC gaming is dying.
