Every year at IFA, tech companies show off their latest gadgets and devices. New devices are exciting and all but nothing has taken the show floor, yet. This is where Asus new GX700 laptop comes in. We'll dive into specifications later but for now an overall look at this magnificent beauty. Asus GX700 has a new color scheme that does not follow the conventional red and black, instead its now silver and orange-ish red. Asus calls it the Armor Titanium for the silver and Plasma Copper for the accompanying orange accents.

The laptop has a detachable water cooling All-in-One kit located around the back to cool the, to date, unreleased Nvidia GPU. We think its the GeForce GTX990M, the full unlocked GM204 Maxwell core, that has been making waves on the Internet about a month ago. It also will cool the new Skylake CPU. This Skylake chip is rather special, its a K chip on a laptop, Intel Core i7 6820HK. Operating at a base clock of 2.7GHz and Turbo clocks to 3.6GHz.


It has also been spotted housing a massive 64GB of DDR4 RAM. Asus has also stated that the laptop will support NVMe based SSD running at PCIe 3.0 x4 speeds. The laptop sports a 17.3" 4K (3840x2160) IPS display that also has support for Nvidia's GSYNC. Thunderbolt 3 is also present on the computer as well as the usual Asus ROG set of macro keys. The laptop, according to Asus, may hit shelves as early as this year. We are very interested in checking out his beast in person and how it works.

In line with all the Computex 2015 announcements later today, Nvidia has jumped to gun by making their long awaited GTX 980Ti official. The new GPU from Nvidia is very much a watered down version of the company's flagship GTX Titan X and is positioned below the former and above the once powerful GTX 980.

Like the Titan X and 980, the new GTX 980 Ti features the same GM 200 core but the CUDA Core count has been dropped to 2,816 from the 3,072 CUDA cores on the TitanX. As for clock speeds, Nvidia kept up from the Titan X and the GM 200 core is still clocked in at 1GHz with a boost clock of 1,075MHz. Another major difference is the 6GB memory buffer which is half of the 12GB found on the Titan X.

Other specs include a 384-bit wide bus, a 250W TDP, and a single 6-pin and 8-pin for the power. Overall, as you can see the new GTX 980Ti is more closer to the GTX Titan X than to the GTX 980. Nividia quotes that most of the popular titles came out with at least 20% better performance compared to AMD's R9 290X.

As for pricing, the GTX 980 Ti will go for $650 (approx RM 2,300) which is quite a good deal given that the GTX Titan X is being offered for $999 (approx RM 3,700). In addition to that, with the launch of the 980Ti, the price of the original GTX 980 has been dropped to only $499 (approx RM 1,800).

Making a surprise entrance at GDC 2015, today Nvidia is making the GTX Titan X official and the card will be available at stores now for a magical price of $999. The Titan X is Nvidia's latest offering in the single GPU game and as of writing this article, the Titan X is indeed the most powerful single precision GPU money can buy.

In terms of specifications, the Titan X is still based on the Maxwell architecture and shares the same GM 200 core like on the GTX 780TI. The raw specs of the card include the 3,072 CUDA cores, 192 TMUs, 96 ROPs and a 384 bit memory bus. Another thing the Titan X springs forward is the massive 12GB of memory which will make multiple monitor setups a breeze.

All in all, the Titan X has a 250w TDP and is powered through dual 8 pin connectors. As for the design of the card, this is the first time Nvidia is giving the 'Titan' shroud a dark color. Currently there are already a couple of Titan X's being offered by board partners but only reference design cards are being offered at the moment.

The GTC 750Ti launched last year was this first GPU using Nvidia's Maxwell architecture, since then we now have the higher end cards; The GTX 980 and GTX 970 which both feature the GM204 chip. Today, Nvidia is announcing the GTX 960, yet another card utilizing the Maxwell architecture. It is dubbed 'the sweet spot GPU'. Being priced at $199, the GTX 960 which is $50 lesser than the starting price of the GTX 760 when it launched last year.

The card is being powered by Nvidia's GM206 chip which has 2.9 billion transistors and has a smaller 128-bit memory but. Other specs include 1,024 CUDA cores, 32ROPs, 64TMUs and 2GB of GDDR5 memory. All of this gives the GTX 960 a TDP of only 120W and only requires a single 6 pin power connector. The display outputs are identical to the ones found in both the GTX 980 and GTX 970.

Sales of the GTX 960 starts today for only $199 and companies like Asus and Gigabyte have also launched their custom version of the GTX 960 which features better aftermarket cooling solutions as well as higher clock speeds that the reference model. Check out the slides below to see what the GTX 960 is capable of.



SOURCE: Geforce