Acer's new laptop rocks unreleased NVIDIA graphics card

NVIDIA has an unreleased Pascal GPU ready for Acer's new Triton 700 gaming laptop.

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Acer teased its upcoming Triton 700 gaming laptop at its press conference a few days ago, with the new laptop featuring a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10-series graphics chip, but Acer didn't say exactly which one it was.

The upcoming Triton 700 gaming laptop starts at $3000, so it would have to be GTX 1070 or better - but then NotebookCheck reported that Acer's new Triton 700 rocks a "GTX 1080 Max-Q" chip that NVIDIA will reveal at Computex, next month. Acer said that the Triton 700 was hitting 17,000 points in 3DMark 11, which its Core i7-7700HQ and unreleased Pascal GPU pumped away at - a score that is better than a GTX 1070, but not as good as the GTX 1080.

The Tech Report notes that the Triton 700 is just 0.75 inches (19mm) thick, which is damn thin for something that has better-than-GTX 1070 performance - with TR adding: "Getting this level of performance usually requires a laptop at least 0.9" (23 mm) thick or more".

Right now, the 'GTX 1080 Max-Q' chips are just a rumor - as we could see something different altogether - like a GTX 1070 with its 8GB of GDDR5 clocked at 11Gbps, like the new GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti cards.

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