 If you're not already subscribed, do it now, because a full review of the Asus GTX 980M wielding G751 featured here is coming, where we'll look at battery life, physical characteristics, heat, thermal throttling, power balancing, and more. But for today's video, it is all about the features and specs, and especially the performance of Nvidia's brand new mobile graphics cards, the GeForce GTX 980M and 970M, including... SLI numbers for the latter. Corsair Gaming RGB keyboards feature precision Cherry MX RGB keyswitches for 16.8 million color-per-key backlighting for virtually unlimited customization. Click now to learn more. Both the 970M and the 980M feature the same new Maxwell architecture as the desktop 970 and 980, with the same improvements to both performance and power use, so an effective doubling in efficiency. This allowed Nvidia to spec them closer to their desktop, non-M cousins than ever before, and notebook makers to deliver some amazingly thin, cool, and fast designs. We also get the same technological improvements, so on top of existing stuff like streaming games to shield devices, recording and streaming gameplay with ShadowPlay, and automatically updating drivers and configuring games for balanced visuals and performance with GeForce Experience, we get dynamic super resolution, so basically the same super sampling technique we showed you guys here, but now easier to apply, MFAA or multi-frame anti-aliasing, a less demanding way to get similar image quality to MSAA, and VXGI, their cool new Voxel-based global illumination technique, all of which you can learn more about in my GTX 980 review here. They also get battery boost 2.0, essentially the same frame rate limiter designed to optimize battery life while gaming without being plugged into the wall as the 1.0 version, but now with automatic profiles via GeForce Experience, and from what I've seen, it actually works now to boot. More detail to come in my full G751 review. Alright, so with all that preamble out of the way, how do these bad boys perform? Well, actually, there's a bit more preamble, sorry, straight apples to apples comparisons are tough with laptop GPUs, because unless you've got, you know, an unlimited number of laptops, or you've got one of those rare practically non-existent laptops where you can just swap the graphics cards on MXM modules, it's hard to have the whole system be a constant. So basically, we just had to do our best with it. Our desktop runs a 5960X with four of its cores disabled, and the clock speed locked at 3 GHz kind of the middle of the pack compared to all the laptop CPUs, and then our laptops all run reasonably similar Core i7 quad cores ranging from the 2 point something high to 3 point something low GHz typical boost speeds. I know this isn't ideal, and I know it's not perfectly scientific, but given that we're running at basically max details in all the games, you can see the exact settings, by the way, in the link in the video description. I don't expect CPU bottlenecks to be an issue here anyway, which leads us finally into performance analysis. Right out of the gate, things are looking good in Tomb Raider with the 970M leading Nvidia's previous mobile flagship, the 880M by a significant margin, and the new 980M trailing its desktop brother by a mere 10%. The Aorus X7 Pro here, though, is the star of the show, because with its dual 970Ms and Tomb Raider scaling so well in SLI, it just runs away with it. Far Cry 3 is actually a fairly similar story. The 970M once again beats the 880M by about 10%, but here we see the other side of the SLI story where we get some improvement, but whether a new SLI profile is needed or there's some other limitation, the X7 Pro's dual 970Ms don't provide much of a benefit over the single 980M in the Asus G751. Crysis 3, being the incredibly graphically demanding game that it is, has our mobile graphics cards trailing their desktop equivalents by more than the previous two games, with the 980 and 970 holding 25% and 40% leads respectively. 970MS SLI, though, once again looks like a stellar option here, with the X7 Pro narrowly edging out even the desktop GTX 980. Now we recently published our benchmarking procedure for Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor and quite a few of us around the office are really having fun with it, so I figured this is a great time to add it to our test suite. Nothing too dissimilar to our other games here in terms of results though, so I guess I'll just start this video's conclusion now by pointing out just how remarkable it is that compared to 7000 series notebook GPUs, the last time I owned a notebook that I gamed on really a lot, we are no longer looking at a full generational performance gap between mobile and desktop GPUs anymore. Sometimes it was more. So the Cup half full perspective here is that the best PC gaming experiences are now available in devices that you can fairly easily move around the house or to and from school or to a friend's house. I mean it's amazing. The Cup half empty perspective though, and it's one that I really can't ignore, is that just like with CPUs, desktop gamers who don't care about mobility are getting slightly beefed up versions of power optimized chips that are really made for mobile instead of the monsters that they used to get because even companies the size of Nvidia and Intel aren't going to build completely different lineups of products just to squeeze a little bit more performance out on the desktop. A relatively stagnant market compared to the vibrant growth of particularly gaming notebooks. Doom and gloom aside though, it's a great time to be a PC gamer whether you use a desktop or a notebook and the 980m and 970m both look like fantastic chips from a pure performance perspective. 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