Nvidia GeForce GTX 880M Sports Old Tech; 12% Faster Than 780M

Nvidia GeForce GTX 880M

Nvidia’s upcoming GeForce GTX 880M flagship video card for laptop PCs appears to be based on the same technology as the former 780M, but it will bring some improvements.

According to leaked info, the GTX 880M will be built upon current Kepler architecture, so transition to the next-gen Maxwell tech won’t happen on this GPU model. Maybe some other upcoming 800M-series variant will be based on Maxwell, but the 880M will have the same basics as the previous two flagship laptop video cards by Nvidia.

That means the GeForce GTX 880M will include the GK104 Kepler (less powerful than GK110 Kepler) 28-nanometer chipset with 1536 CUDA cores. The memory interface will remain to be a 256-bit one, but a big change memory-wise will be inclusion of 8GB of GDDR5 VRAM, up from 4GB. However, doubling video memory isn’t expected to bring any significant performance boost, because 4GB is already sufficient for 256-bit GPUs.

Anyway, a leaked GeForce 880M 3DMark 11 benchmark indicates the card will be about 12% faster than its 780M precursor, but that’s due to setting the GPU clock speed higher. It will increase from previous 823MHz to 954MHz/Turbo 993MHz.

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 880M is expected to be hit the market in February, as same as some other 800M-series parts.

Source: NotebookReview | Via: VideoCardz

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