There’s absolutely no denying that NVIDIA’s Pascal architecture will usher in a revolution within the gaming notebook space. The GTX 1080, GTX 1070 and GTX 1060 will be a dream come true for system integrators since they’re now able to shoehorn some impressive graphics horsepower into thin and light chassis. While I can only speak to my experience with a lone GTX 1070-based product thus far (more about the incredible ASUS G752 below), all indicators point towards these new GPUs being the quantum leap NVIDIA promised.
Perhaps the most incredible thing about this launch is how little has been sacrificed on the performance front. Previous generations of mobile GPUs cast aside cores, memory capacity and frequency to achieve TDPs necessary for their integration into even the largest of gaming notebooks. Indeed, while past GPU architectures claimed to offer desktop performance for the notebook market, the difference between theory and reality could be measured in light-years. Pascal graphics cores on the other hand have been ported as completely holistic entities with only some minor cut in base clocks. Not only will this provide true high end performance but it’s been achieved without revising those already-stringent notebook design specs and it’s those guidelines that have effectively cut AMD out of this segment. As a matter of face these cards are so damn capable that users could face the very real possibility of CPU bottlenecking at 1080P, particularly with low voltage mobile processors.
