Based on the Turing architecture, Nvidia added its GeForce RTX graphics cards to its product line recently and plans to do the same for its notebook lines. GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q in development
With GeForce RTX 2080, Nvidia will roll out the Turing Mobile Card line. Two years ago, with the arrival of Pascal, Nvidia switched to the use of desktop arrays on laptops which makes it very difficult to predict its versions, even though it is probably the only GPU that has the suffix “M” in its ID. Device-IDs for the Turing line has been published in Github and are listed below:
- Turing TU102: 1e02, 1e04, 1e07
- Turing TU102GL: 1e30, 1e3c, 1e3d
- Turing TU104: 1e82, 1e87
- Turing TU104M: 1eab
- Turing TU106: 1f07
With the TU104M with ID 1eab device, we are interested because it is the graphics processor that powers the GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q graphics card. For players who want something super portable, this is good news because NVIDIA’s Max-Q designs are the closest to desktop performance on a laptop. Conditioning systems are often very innovative for such devices and the clocks are lower than their desktop counterparts. While the TDP is typically the big problem but considering that the process at 12 nm of Turing is an improved version of the 16 nm in Pascal, something that needs sufficient flexibility.
So the GeForce RTX 2080-MaxQ is developing well and soon we will see well-known partners like Razer and others introducing their new GPU-based products to the market. All other Max-Q models in the GeForce 2000 series could be required to wait until the 10-series inventory is complete, and Nvidia will be using its RTX 2070 and 2060 GPUs in the fourth quarter.