More midrange discrete GPUs from Nvidia include the likes of the GeForce MX150, which is capable of handling many popular recent games acceptably at Full HD resolution, although you’ll likely have to turn the details down considerably (and more demanding games will make mincemeat of this GPU). And it’s not a cheap machine you pay for the tech trickery necessary to pull off this slimline beast of a notebook. The resulting performance is positively blazing for a portable – although battery life does suffer, as you might anticipate. This means that the likes of the Asus ROG Zephyrus GX501 can fit a Max-Q toting GeForce GTX 1080 in a laptop which is only 17.9mm at its thickest point and weighs 2.2kg. These are simply honed versions of the graphics solutions which are optimized for power usage, and benefit from advanced thermal and electrical designs, not to mention the fact that they run more quietly.

Nvidia tackled this portability problem, though, when last year the firm introduced Max-Q variants of the aforementioned GTX GPUs.

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