Interview: Power play: How Nvidia’s Pascal laptops let you game for longer

By Kane Fulton

Introduction

Nvidia’s new Pascal GPUs have made their way into at least 10 gorgeous (and incredibly powerful) gaming laptops, with more to come. In addition to letting you dip your toes into 4K gaming, VR and super-smooth triple-digit frame rates, the company’s new architecture promises to make real difference to your gaming playtime thanks to improvements around energy consumption and power efficiency.

Nvidia claims that its new Pascal-powered GTX 10-Series GPUs for notebooks can reach up to twice the battery life of its previous Maxwell-equipped models. Kaustubh Sanghani, general manager of PC platforms at Nvidia, says that this was a huge undertaking that saw thousands of engineers to try tackle issues around battery life and power consumption.

The task, he says, was particularly challenging when it came to slim new chassis designs that have less physical space for components. TechRadar spoke to Sanghani at the launch of Nvidia’s GTX 10-Series notebooks to find out more.

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Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components