Wowzers, I just saw the specs on the 970 and 980...if I'm remembering correctly based on how much faster Maxwell is with a given number of cores, even the 970 should be a monster. The 980 should just stomp on the 880, which was already impressive.
Yeah, based on NVIDIA's figures it looks like GTX 970M should be pretty close to the performance of GTX 880M, only it should be more power efficient (maybe?) and costs less.
Quad-core Broadwell isn't expected until early next year; we'll see Broadwell-Y (Core M) in Ultrabooks and tablets/hybrids this year, but that's about it.
Disappointing they couldn't release with new Intel CPU's, but this makes sense considering the impending holiday season. Thanks for the quick response!
1) The higher end one (Core i7-4980HQ) has Iris 5200 graphics, which is BGA-only for Haswell CPUs. 2) Soldered CPUs have smaller vertical size ("thickness"), so then the laptop can be made thinner or more space for cooling is left.
There is obvious downside to this - soldered BGA CPU is not user upgradeable, but, really, how many laptop owners upgrade their CPUs? Less than 5%, I suppose, so this may be not a big deal.
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Wolfpup - Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - link
Wowzers, I just saw the specs on the 970 and 980...if I'm remembering correctly based on how much faster Maxwell is with a given number of cores, even the 970 should be a monster. The 980 should just stomp on the 880, which was already impressive.My 680 is starting to get jealous :-D
JarredWalton - Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - link
Yeah, based on NVIDIA's figures it looks like GTX 970M should be pretty close to the performance of GTX 880M, only it should be more power efficient (maybe?) and costs less.rodolfwelsh - Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - link
The ASUS ROG G750JM-DS71 is a lot better gaming laptop in my opinion (see laptop ranking such as http://cli.gs/52ahp4p for example).dunemessiah - Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - link
These all use Haswell CPU's? No Broadwell?JarredWalton - Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - link
Quad-core Broadwell isn't expected until early next year; we'll see Broadwell-Y (Core M) in Ultrabooks and tablets/hybrids this year, but that's about it.dunemessiah - Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - link
Disappointing they couldn't release with new Intel CPU's, but this makes sense considering the impending holiday season. Thanks for the quick response!TiGr1982 - Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - link
That's the question not to MSI, but to Intel, since Intel hasn't released quad core Broadwell CPUs yet.TiGr1982 - Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - link
Yes, since the index starts with "4", then it's Haswell, and not Broadwell.En1gma - Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - link
why msi use soldered cpu?TiGr1982 - Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - link
Two guesses:1) The higher end one (Core i7-4980HQ) has Iris 5200 graphics, which is BGA-only for Haswell CPUs.
2) Soldered CPUs have smaller vertical size ("thickness"), so then the laptop can be made thinner or more space for cooling is left.
There is obvious downside to this - soldered BGA CPU is not user upgradeable, but, really, how many laptop owners upgrade their CPUs? Less than 5%, I suppose, so this may be not a big deal.
blah238 - Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - link
No HDMI 2.0, no sale.danjw - Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - link
Any word on when we will see Broadwell in laptops? Intel is talking about Skylake, but not Broadwell,JarredWalton - Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - link
2015 for the higher performance, late this year for Core M (Broadwell-Y).