Although we already heard a bit of details about it, Nvidia has now officially unveiled its Geforce GTX 980 for notebooks.

Based on a fully-enabled GM204 GPU with 2048 CUDA cores, the new Geforce GTX 980 for notebooks will first be available in select notebooks. While the Geforce GTX 980M was quite a decent chip, it appears that Nvidia wants to add a bit more graphics power to notebooks by releasing a fully-enabled desktop part.




Previously, Nvidia's mobile GPU lineup was quite a different compared to the desktop one, but it appears that things are now changing as Nvidia has decided to put a fully-enabled desktop part into notebooks with Geforce GTX 980 for notebooks.

While earlier rumors suggested that these chips will soldered to the motherboard, it appears that Nvidia has managed to squeeze it into MXM form-factor after all. The precise specifications were not unveiled, since Nvidia is leaving a lot of room for notebook manufacturers so precise clocks will be different depending on the notebook.

According to known details, the Geforce GTX 980 for notebooks will have a TDP that is lower than the 165W on the desktop version, need an 8-phase VRM and have 50 percent higher peak current. The GPUs are also put through extra verification in order to meet the performance and efficiency levels needed in order to be used in a notebook and even have some extra overclocking headroom.






The GTX 980 for notebooks will be available in 4GB and 8GB versions, both clocked at 7Gbps. Nvida also included fan control in their new Notebook OC Tool.

As the next big thing in gaming is virtual reality (VR), it does not come as a surprise that Nvidia markets the new GTX 980 for notebooks as the first proper chip for VR gaming.

There are already plenty of partners that are bringing notebooks with the new Nvidia GTX 980 for notebooks GPU including ASUS, Aorus, Clevo and MSI.

This is definitely a niche market but it appears that gaming notebooks do sell and Nvidai has a perfect chip for them.







Source: Nvidia.com.