Nvidia’s awesome GTX 1080 graphics presented in a portable package.
THERE’S MOBILE GRAPHICS And then there’s proper gaming graphics. For a taste of the latter in a portable package, look no further than MSI’s new GT73VR Titan Pro. It’s a beefy 17-inch portable with Nvidia’s stupid-quick GeForce GTX 1080 graphics.
The point is that it really is a GTX 1080 chip. Over the years, both Nvidia and its main rival, AMD, haven’t always played it straight with their laptop graphics chips. All too often, the mobile version of a given GPU wasn’t quite what it seemed. But not this time. This is no GTX 1060 with a lick of paint. It’s the real 2,560-CUDA-core deal.
That GeForce GTX 1080 GPU is just the beginning of what is an epic feature set. There’s a quad-core Intel Core-i7 6820HK CPU, which clocks in at 2.7GHz nominal and 3.6GHz Turbo. Next up, MSI has stuffed in a pair of 256GB Samsung PCIe SSDs running in RAID 0, plus a 1TB 7,200rpm magnetic drive, and a preposterous 32GB of RAM.
This story is from the December 2016 edition of Maximum PC.
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