A few months ago, NVIDIA introduced its Max-Q design laptops and they were limited to GeForce GTX 1080, 1070 or 1060 graphics cards. The initial idea was to enable the creation of powerful gaming laptops as thin as 18mm. Now things are slowly changing and NVIDIA seems to have decided to release GTX 1050Ti Max-Q components.

Like previous Max-Q GPUs we expect to see a GTX 1050Ti Max-Q with lower speeds than standard GTX 1050Ti GPUs. This change decreases the thermal output of the graphics chip while offering better performance per watt. Furthermore slim cooling solutions usually improves the laptop designs. A week ago we have seen several detail regarding Kaby Lake-G chips with integrated AMD Radeon RX Vega graphics.

According to latest rumors, the upcoming G-series with RX Vega M GL graphics should be a bit faster than GTX 1050 graphics. However, during the next months we might see some more competition from NVIDIA with the GTX 1050Ti Max-Q against Intel i7-8706G, Intel i7-8705G, and Intel i5-8305G processors. In addition the GTX 1060 Max-Q GPU should play against the Intel i7-8809G and i7-8709G.

This competition between NVIDIA and Intel might be very good for consumers but at the moment there isn't more information. We will surely keep an eye on it.



Source: Hexus