The Iris Xe Max (DG1) GPU, which is already shipping to OEMs, has graced the grounds of Geekbench 5. The submissions (via Tum_Apisak) show that the looming GPU's performance is somewhere along the lines of AMD's Radeon RX 550. This chip was shown to have good performance numbers at 1080p, but in this particular case did not perform as well as the Skylake Core i3-6100 and Core i5-6300.

On the 110,000-lead chart established by one of the Engadget writers, the Dell was shown performing beautifully and with a clear lead over the benchmark. A laptop with these specifications would need a 24-inch widescreen model with 4K resolution, an i7-6600U around the same performance level and 4GBs of RAM.

Intel sees a bright future with the TDP limit on gaming laptops.

So what could Nvidia be doing with its GP106 technology? According to the nVidia roadmap, Nvidia will first come up with a custom version of the Kepler-310 GPU to power high-end gaming laptops. Recently the company is also bringing the Kepler-400 chip to the high-end segment and it only reduces the GPU efficiency rating.

Meanwhile the company has plans to create their own version of 300-series graphics chips called Titan V. So Nvidia could offer the "first true server class" GPU by stacking its G80, G84 and G86 chips to achieve the needed efficiency and power consumption.

This strategy does not mean Nvidia is facing two volumes of SlimBook Volumes taken over by richified high-end laptops, it is mere an example of what could lie in store when Nvidia delivers miniaturized creative and gpu cores onto thin metal notebooks to meet the demands of touch-centric user interfaces.

Keeping the former flagship stay cool.

Not long ago it was rumored that the upcoming Surface Book 2 could be powered by the Bitcoin mining chip from Texas Instruments. The computing logic sits next to the RAM, graphics and processor to cool off the power. So it is logical that if the metal-like Surface Book should decrease the footprint by cutting the skinnier bezels, the GPU as well as the supply board can mirror the same aluminum form.

Huang made it clear that the company is still not talking about a "longer" generation for the Titan-based graphics card. "At a very high-level, we are taking a step forward and looking where GPUs could be in the future and how they could be restructured," he said. Huang blamed the slide for his silence on the subject. "We at nVidia have been a bit lackadaisical about the slide. But especially for which slide
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