Max-Q design approach promises sleeker gaming laptops

Source: NVIDIA. The GeForce GTX with Max-Q enables sleeker laptops.

NVIDIA has introduced Max-Q, a new design approach that redefines gaming laptops from the ground up — making them thinner, quieter and faster. With Max-Q-designed laptops, gamers can enjoy an enhanced gaming and entertainment experience.

Max-Q, an integral part of NASA’s mission to launch man into space, is defined as the point at
which the aerodynamic stress on a rocket in atmospheric flight is maximised. Rockets thus have to be precision-engineered around Max-Q.

NVIDIA has applied a similar philosophy to designing gaming laptops, enabling OEMs to build laptops that are 3X thinner with up to 3X the performance of previous generation products. The result? A souped-up gaming platform that is just 18mm thick – as thin as a MacBook Air – with up to 70% more gaming performance than what is currently available.

With Max-Q, everything in the design is precision-engineered — the laptop, the GPU, the drivers, and the thermal and electrical components — to ensure peak efficiency. At the heart of this performance is NVIDIA Pascal, the gaming GPU architecture. To deliver more performance to thin laptops, NVIDIA has further optimised and configured Pascal for even higher performance.

Based on the NVIDIA Pascal GPU architecture, the GeForce GTX 1080 is manufactured on the leading-edge FinFET 16nm process, and features GDDR5X memory. Max-Q combines a new way of operating the GPU for peak efficiency, with optimisations such as a low-voltage optimised clock curve that wrings out gaming performance while reducing power.

To squeeze even more performance from a system, Max-Q designed laptops are engineered with sophisticated thermal and electrical capabilities. New thermal solutions, along with unprecedented regulator efficiency, enable dramatically higher performance and quieter operations in thin gaming laptops than in anything else currently available.

Max-Q designed laptops support the entire GeForce gaming platform, which includes the latest gaming technologies, Game Ready drivers, NVIDIA G-SYNC display technology, virtual reality (VR), 4K gaming, and more. Max-Q designed laptops are also ready for NVIDIA GeForce Experience, a complete software platform that provides automatic game profiles to ensure gamers are playing with the right settings out of the box, ensuring an optimal gaming experience every time.

NVIDIA has also introduced NVIDIA WhisperMode technology, which makes laptops run much more quietly while gaming. WhisperMode intelligently paces the game’s frame rate while simultaneously configuring the graphics settings for optimal power efficiency. This reduces the overall acoustic level for gaming laptops. User-adjustable and available for all Pascal GPU-based laptops, WhisperMode will be available through a GeForce Experience software update.

Interested?

MaxQ-designed gaming laptops equipped with GeForce GTX 1080, 1070 and 1060 will be available starting on June 27 from the leading laptop OEMs and system builders, including Acer, Aftershock, Alienware, ASUS, Clevo, Dream Machine, ECT, Gigabyte, Hasee, HP, LDLC, Lenovo, Machenike, Maingear, Mechrevo, MSI, Multicom, Origin PC, PC Specialist, Sager, Scan, Terrans Force, Tronic’5, and XoticPC. Features, pricing and availability may vary.

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