Read more.These are clock speed bumped mobile GPU upgrades based upon Maxwell GM108.
Read more.These are clock speed bumped mobile GPU upgrades based upon Maxwell GM108.
Can't see many OEMs using the GDDR5 versions, sadly. That end of the market is so cost sensitive; which is frustrating, given how much faster many cards at this level are with GDDR5. They really should give the GDDR5 versions a different name: if the 940M was the DDR3 version, and the 940MX the GDDR5 version, a) it'd be easier for consunmers to see what they were buying, and b) it'd give the OEMs a clear marketing reason for charging more for the MX versions!
As it is, none of these mobile GPUs - even the GDDR5 versions - will be faster than a recent AMD A10-series APU with decent DDR3 memory, and they're likely to end up paired with low end i3 U-series processors, so there's absolutely no driver for laptop manufacturers to put the more expensive GDDR5 version in their devices. In fact, Intel's kind of doing nvidia a favour by not improving the IGP in its low end chips too much - that's the only reason there's any kind of market for these...
I hope that we see more of these low end GPUs in some Windows tablets/hybrids. Would like a tablet with decent enough graphics to play some of my games but not too expensive.
the intel Iris-Pro project is a far better idea for laptop fab labs. Iris still beats some GDDR5 powered Maxwell Cuda cores at a cheaper price.
I really wish DDR3-based graphics cards would just die off and leave only GDDR5/GDDR5X or HBM/HBM2 offerings going forward, with GDDR5 being the only current option for most until the next round of product updates.
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