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With such a slew of features, it's no wonder some of us are feeling overwhelmed by the sheer breadth of toggles and tweaks now laid before us. So we've created this handy guide so you know what they do, when to tamper with the settings, and what to expect from each feature. While many of us will happily go about installing our favourite games on our new laptops straight out of the box, without a second thought for these (often convoluted) configuration settings, Nvidia has added some features we think are definitely worth trying out for yourself. It's all about the different max GPU power levels of the individual chips. One RTX 3080 machine may perform very differently compared to another RTX 3080. Make sure to check the product support page for any prospective purchases, before dropping large sums of money—an 85W RTX 3080 will almost always be slower than a 110W version, for example. Cooling is the big thing, with performance being so dynamic within GPUs today, and so if you're picking up a thin and light machine it will perform differently to a more chunky laptop with the same graphics card. With that out of the way, let's go through a quick overview of each of these latest features and when's best to turn each one on, what the prime setting configurations are, as well as whether switching them on is actually worth it at all. (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia Whisper Mode 2.0 Whisper mode is an Nvidia feature for the considerate souls among us. Say you want to take your lapt...

So what is Max-Q? It’s actually an aerospace term which relates to the aerodynamics of a rocket or missile, specifically the maximum stress the design can cope with. However, in the context of graphics cards, Nvidia is using the term to mean maximum efficiency. The actual GTX 1080, 1070 and 1060 chips are the same, but they’re cherry-picked from the production line and then designated as Max Q versions. In Device Manger, you’ll see Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 with Max Q technology. What it means is that these particular GPUs are more efficient and draw less power than their ‘Max P’ counterparts, that is those chips which deliver the full performance, but also draw more power. When are Max-Q laptops coming out? Laptops from Asus, MSI, Acer and many more will go on sale from 27 June. How does Nvidia Max-Q make gaming laptops better? Nvidia has given laptop makers a set of requirements which they have to fulfil order to get their Max-Q badge. One is that fan noise mustn’t exceed 40dB. And while it isn’t a requirement, some laptops are just 18mm thick. So any laptop with the Max-Q sticker will be relatively lightweight and quiet-running, two facets that gaming laptops have tended to lack up to this point. Because of the lower power draw, Max-Q graphics chips generate less heat, which in turn means fans don’t have to move so much air, which is why they can be quieter even when you’re playing Overwatch at 60fps. And since they do use less power, your battery will last longer. Or, yo...

HP’s revamping its Omen 15 and Omen 17 gaming laptops with new CPUs and GPUs and fresh designs, including one extremely new feature: Nvidia’s Only one of the laptops announced Tuesday will have Max-Q: An Omen 15 configured with an Nividia GTX 1060 GPU. Nvidia says the Max-Q technology will let that GTX 1060 give a GTX 1080’s worth of graphics power, while keeping a lid on thermals and noise. As for the rest of the laptops, these sample configurations and prices will give you a good idea of what the new Omen laptops will offer. Note the Nvidia FreeSync and AMD G-Sync display options at the higher-end. All models will be VR-certified, too: HP The Omen 17 will include an optical drive. Omen 15: $999: Intel Core i7=7700HQ, 8GB DDR4 RAM, AMD Radeon RX 550 with 2GB GDDR5, 1080p 60Hz display, 1TB HDD $1,029: Intel Core i7-7700HQ, 8GB DDR4 RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 with 4GB GDDR5, 1080p 60Hz display, 1TB HDD $1,599: Intel Core i7-7700HQ, 16GB DDR4 RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti with 4GB GDDR5,UHD 60Hz display, 512GB PCIe SSD plus 1TB HDD (We assume the model with the GTX 1060 and Max-Q will cost more, but HP did not provide pricing or further configuration details.) $1,799: Intel Core i7-7700HQ, 32GB DDR4 RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 with 8GB GDDR5, UHD 60Hz Nvidia G-Sync display, 256GB PCIe SSD plus 2TB HDD Beyond the specs HP HP put larger fans into the Omen 15 laptop, resulting in 21.8 precent greater maximum airflow. The new generation of Omen laptops include improved therm...

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Acer's first Max-Q notebook is the 0.74-inch Predator Triton 700. Starting at $2,999, it features a 15.6-inch, 1920 x 1080 G-Sync panel with an Intel 7th-Gen Core processor and a pair of overclockable Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 GPUs and dual NVMe PCIe SSDs in RAID 0 configuration. It also packs two of Acer's own AeroBlade 3D fans that the company claims offer 35 percent more airflow than what competing systems provide. There's just one problem: its glass touchpad sits above the keyboard and is difficult to touch, so we hope you own an external mouse! The ROG Zephyrus is a 0.7-inch gaming notebook featuring Max-Q technology with a 15.6-inch 1080p G-Sync display and the ROG Active Aerodynamic System (a giant exhaust port). The exhaust port unfolds from the notebook's bottom as the lid opens, increasing airflow by 20 percent (according to Asus). It's on the more affordable end of the spectrum, with pricing ranging from $2,299 to $2,699. The top-end model packs an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 GPU and 512GB of storage, while the less expensive version uses a 1070 GPU and 256GB of storage. The 0.69-inch thick GS63VR Stealth Pro is one of (if not the) thinnest gaming laptops available today, and at 4.2 pounds, it's also one of the lightest. MSI isn't saying how much the 15-inch machine costs, but it will manage to fit Nvidia's GTX 1070 GPU and Intel's 7th Generation quad-core CPUs into its svelte frame. Max-Q is helping the thin get thinner, as the X5 MD manages to fit a GeForce GTX 1080...

The only real problem with Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 30-series laptops is its stunning RTX 30-series desktop cousins. No matter how impressively fast the mobile CPUs are—and our first tests show they offer everything from good to outrageous performance—they will never measure up to full-fat GPUs. Nor should they be expected to, except in the messy stew of physics, modern marketing, and occasionally toxic consumer expectations. So don’t expect this mobile GPU to be a desktop GPU. But do expect laptops with RTX 30-series to offer very impressive graphics performance, even compared to some of the biggest and heaviest laptops around. More stories What is GeForce RTX 30-series mobile Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 30-series is the highly anticipated mobile version of its stellar 30-series desktop GPUs. Built on the same 8nm Samsung process as the desktop part, the mobile GPU shares a lot of the same goodness. They are not, however, exactly the same. For example, the desktop GeForce RTX 3080 packs 10GB of GDDR6X using a 320-bit bus and features 8,704 CUDA cores. It rocks 760GBps of memory bandwidth. Our review called it a “staggering performance upgrade,” and we weren’t kidding. The mobile RTX 3080 version steps back to 6,144 CUDA cores, either 16GB or 8GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit bus, and 384GBps of memory bandwidth. You’re also looking at nearly a 40-percent reduction in boost clocks, as well as tensor cores and RT cores. All told, while the GeForce RTX 3080 mobile carries the branding of t...

Michael Crider Writer Michael Crider is a veteran technology journalist with a decade of experience. He spent five years writing for Android Police and his work has appeared on Digital Trends and Lifehacker. He’s covered industry events like the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and Mobile World Congress in person. “Ultrabook” 2.0, Now With More Gaming The best way to describe MAX-Q is as a marketing push…which is admittedly less than helpful. Essentially, it’s NVIDIA pushing its laptop manufacturer partners to cram crazy-powerful GPUs into a thin-and-light laptop chassis, in the hopes that it can shed the general perception that your laptop needs to be the size of a briefcase if you want it to run the latest high-end games. Intel’s inconsistent “Ultrabook” designation became more or less meaningless after a while. Intel toyed with this marketing strategy a few years ago. Remember when you were supposed to buy “Ultrabooks” instead of laptops? That was a somewhat amorphous designation describing laptops that were much thinner and lighter than their contemporaries, but featured battery-efficient Intel Core-series processors. The ultrabook “spec,” if there ever really was one, was somewhat loose: models could come from any partner manufacturer, but needed to be less than .8″ thin, typically omitting bulky hardware features like disc drives or Ethernet ports. Though initial designs were all 13-inch models, pushback from manufacturers expanded the loose definition to similar de...

Laptops with Nvidia's RTX 3060, RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 GPUs have landed, but in many ways, it's more complicated to know exactly what you're getting. On the one hand, Nvidia has published plenty of information about the mobile cards, including the fact that clock speeds vary, as does total graphics power. But on the other, it's being a bit more reserved with the Max-Q moniker. Check the listings You shouldn't be buying a laptop off the shelf without seeing what's in it. And while in our searching, most major OEMs haven't listed Max-Q parts, some smaller shops have. For example, the European seller of XMG and Schenker laptops has committed to using Max-Q where applicable and listing TGP of the Nvidia GPUs in its RTX 3000 laptops. This is good, as it gives lots of information. A lower TGP suggests Max-Q. "We strongly encourage OEMs to list clocks and other technologies a laptop supports, including Advanced Optimus, Dynamic Boost 2, and more," Nvidia told Tom's Hardware in mid-January. "Ultimately, like all laptop features and specs, it is up to the OEM to market what their particular laptop configuration supports." But that hasn't always been the case in the listings that we have been looking at. Hopefully, this practice actually proliferates. If you buy one and don't know if it's Max-Q? Well, you can still find out when you turn it on. How to check for Max-Q on your laptop Buying a laptop and not knowing exactly what you got isn't ideal, but let's say you have. You used to b...

We're kicking off our reviews of Nvidia's The mobile RTX 3060 is using Nvidia's GA106 silicon with 3840 unlocked CUDA cores, more than what you'll find in the The memory configuration for all RTX 3060 laptop variants is 6GB of GDDR6 on a 192-bit bus, with clock speeds of either 14 Gbps or 12 Gbps depending on the power class. As this is a new GPU featuring the Ampere architecture, it's built on Samsung's 8nm process node and features all the new architectural benefits like 3rd-gen Tensor cores, 2nd-gen ray tracing cores, and dual FP32 pipelines. For laptops specifically, Nvidia has introduced a range of For today's review, we'll be testing two variants of the RTX 3060 mobile GPU: one with a base power rating of 80W, and another with a base power of 115W. Note how we specify "base power" here as both come with Dynamic Boost 2.0, which is enabled by default. This balances system power load while gaming, and in some situations where CPU usage is light, it can enable the RTX 3060 to run up to 15W higher. Considering it's enabled out of the box on both systems, this is how we'll be testing these laptops and we'll be reporting a power range on our benchmark charts. Our RTX 3060 115-130W system today is the XMG Apex 17, a powerful beast of a system with significant cooling capacity. The RTX 3060 inside has a base clock of 1387 MHz and boost clock of 1702 MHz, along with 14 Gbps memory. It supports Dynamic Boost and Resizable BAR, but not WhisperMode or Advanced Optimus. The XMG A...