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Nvidia recently declared that it has hit a real breakthrough for portable gaming through its latest GeForce GTX 980 laptop GPU. The new laptop provides a 30 percent performance increase than its former flagship laptop GPU.

According to PC world, the new Nvidia GTX 980 laptop GPU is basically the same as placing a desktop GeForce GTX 980 into a laptop. Nvidia reveals that the latest laptop GPU is the identical desktop chip.

It is described to have a similar 2,048 CUDA cores, the same memory bandwidth, and 256-bit memory busl .A consumer can now purchase a single-GPU laptop or desktop and acquire the same graphics performance with the laptop GeForce GTX 980.

Nvidia has united with OEMs similar to Asus and MSI as the company aims to pack the full desktop version of its high-end GTX 980 graphics card into laptops. What's more, Nvidia has even managed to persuade OEMs to allow users overclock the GTX 980, too, Arstechnica reports.

Combined with Intel's forthcoming unlocked K-series Skylake laptop CPUs, users are reported to be allowed to eke out a substantial volume of superfluous performance from their laptops, cooling permitting. In addition, Nvidia's laptop GTX 980s will be slightly different from their desktop counterparts in that they'll be ditched for enhanced leakage and power consumption.

The previous the GTX 980M is the NVIDIA's flagship GPU for notebooks. On the other hand, the new GTX 980 for laptops will be offered as an identical version of desktop that provides the same gaming performance.

Engadget states that the new laptop was being made utilizing the NVIDIA's power-efficient Maxwell architecture. The GTX 980 is running at a base 1.1GHz clock speed, with 2048 CUDA cores and 4GB of GDDR5 video memory (7 Gbps memory speed).

All these numbers culminate in a laptop GPU has the ability of comfortably running any of the latest titles at over 60 fps at full graphics settings. Moreover, the GTX 980 can drive three 1080p displays that is "fully certified by Oculus". This indicates that it effectively assured to carry up to the demands of VR gaming.

Thus far, there is no any exact price or release details provided for the powerful GTX 980 laptop. However, the company has stated that consumers may anticipate this to arrive later this fall.