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so full disclaimer guys I feel like absolute crap pretty sure I've just got a flu virus but I've not been sleeping and I feel like death anyway last week I was honored to be invited along to NVIDIA GeForce a PAC editors day in Bangkok I was very intrigued as to what it was Nvidia had to show us in the end it turned out to be a few familiar friends repurposed for a different form factor and video has taken their current GeForce 10 series lineup - the Titan X and focus it towards mobile gaming however unlike previous generations the m' postfix has been dropped from the name this has been done because like the GTX 980 which was relaunched late last year for notebook users the new Pascal based geforce cards share the same specifications as the desktop variants both the gtx 1060 and GT x 1080 are identical GPUs to the desktop models though they do operate at slightly lower frequencies that said depending on the laptop design it is possible to boost the frequency up to and even beyond the founders edition cards the gtx 1070 is actually a beefier GPU in its mobile form boasting an additional 128 CUDA cores to help overcome the frequency deficit and video has suggested that the mobile versions of these GPUs would be around 10% slower than the desktop models which is amazing news for mobile gamers previously we found that the gtx 980m was around 20% to 30% slower than the desktop model that was often the difference between achieving and not achieving 60fps at 1080p this time things are different much different a base-model gaming laptop configured with the gtx 1060 will match what was previously flagship level mobile gaming performance meanwhile those armed with the gtx 1070 or 1080 will slaughter anything previously available video says this is all possible thanks to the extreme efficiency of their Pascal architecture at this point though Nvidia hardly needs to hype the product any further already taking up the call they have a dozen laptop manufacturers producing over 100 different models that means finding a geforce 10 series enabled gaming laptop won't be an issue and today i've managed to find the most extreme of them all the asus rog GX 800 and holy crap is it something else this video won't be a typical laptop review where we test battery life and cover all the nitty-gritty stuff like audio quality and held out the speakers are instead the focus is solely on performance namely GPU performance GX 800 doesn't just feed to one new GT X 1080 GPU but rather two for the mobile 4k SLI action not just that but like the GX 700 before it which featured just a single GTX 980 the GX 800 is also liquid cooled when connected to a special docking station the specs are mighty impressive though as I just said for this video I'm going to be focusing more on the performance of those GT X 1080 GPUs than the laptop itself for comparison we'll be using the core i7 6700k test system which is clocked and locked at 4.5 gigahertz what we'll be looking at is how well the GX 810 80s compared to the desktop models simply testing a single configuration for the GX 800 wasn't going to cover it in the end we felt it was necessary to test at least 5 different configurations here's a table that lists how each configuration will be labeled on the graphs and what exactly the test parameters were due to the fact that the GX 800 can be air or liquid cooled meant that already we had to test both cooling options there's also an XMP overclocking option which can boost the performance at a click of a button and should help the GX 800 deliver desktop life performance so obviously also wanted to test that was also important to test with SLI disabled especially given the GX 800 performs better with SLI disabled when not connected to the liquid-cooled dot removed from the dock there simply isn't enough power being delivered to the laptop for the SLI configuration that I prayed correctly so performance takes a rather large hit in total ten games have been tested though in an effort to keep the video as short as possible while including all the relevant info I picked up four games to discuss the rest of the graphs can be found on the hardware unbox website the link for which can be found in the video description keeping all that in mind let's move on to the benchmarks first let's look at the single GC X 1080 desktop performance here we see an average of 43 FPS disabling sli on the GX 800 we found the exact same 43 FPS average with the laptop both liquid and air-cooled though keep in mind we were using the XMP settings still this is an incredible result and so far it looks like mobile gamers can enjoy desktop like performance something I found odd was the fact that with SLI enabled the performance dropped massively down to just 34 fps at first I thought SLI must have been broken or some kind of driver issue however the desktop systems bad very smooth 65 FPS so something was up then occurred to me that the liquid-cooled docking station features another 230 watt power supply the SLR setup was running into a power problem connected to the dock the average frame rate jumped up to 60 fps and while that is a nice result at 4k and meant that SLI was scaling by this 40% even on the desktop we only saw scaling reached 51% though we were able to get close to this figure using the XMP settings moving to The Witcher 3 we find much better SLI scaling and now the GX 800 is capable of matching even beating the desktop system with an average of 69 FPS with the XMP settings with SLI disabled we saw similar performance to that of a single GTX 1080 and again using SLI without the dock connected provided very poor performance this makes the GX 800 rather impractical is users will want to make sure they've manually disabled SLI when running without the extra power from the dock this time we find that with SLI disabled the GX 800 isn't quite able to match a single GTX 1080 on the desktop still with an average of 37 fps on air the GX 800 was comfortably faster than the desktop gtx 1070 configuration again enabling sli while on air was a bad choice as the lack of power meant the laptop was actually slower with our slain abled in its out-of-the-box configuration the GX 800 average 70 FPS with a minimum of 62 FPS when connected to the dock using the XMP settings boosted performance to that of the desktop 1080 SLI configuration which was great to see testing with rise of the Tomb Raider we see that with or without the liquid-cooled dock the GX 800 is comparable to our core i7 desktop test system this is true for both the single GC X 1080 and our solo configurations again the only issue here can be seen when using the GX 800 without the dock with SLI enabled it will be important for G X 800 owners to manually disable SLI when it is impossible to connect up the dock for that extra power before wrapping things up let's check out some temperature results at idle the GX 800 ran cool regardless of the configuration air cooled the GPU is idle at 41 degrees in the car 7 CPU at 40 degrees using liquid cooling dock the CPU temp down at 35 degrees and the GPUs down to 37 degrees under full load is where the liquid cooled dock makes all the difference using only the fans the GX 800 allowed the GPUs to reach 88 degrees while the CPU also operated 88 degrees disabling SLI didn't really help to reduce the temperatures though the fans weren't quite as loud using the liquid cooled dock the CPU only dropped down to 81 degrees but the GPUs were now operating at just 61 degrees perhaps the biggest difference here was the operating volumes the GX 800 was near silent even when gaming at no point at the GTX 1080s inside the GX 800 drop below 1.7 gigahertz and when liquid cooled a 2 gigahertz operating frequency for the sli cards were sustained although the acyl are configuration maintained a 1.9 gigahertz operating frequency when on air the resulting performance is very weak this at first doesn't seem to make much sense as both GPUs are operating at a very high frequency the issue here is the power target as the entire system is being fed just 230 watts and that's simply isn't enough for 210 ATS to deliver maximum performance therefore they were limited to 54 fps in fact disabling 110 ATS saw the frame rate increase to 63 fps well there you have it the world's most powerful gaming laptop the isuzu sorry GG X 800 is without question an awesome gaming laptop still I can't help but feel it's over-the-top very over-the-top to the point where it's just too impractical ACS it seems don't totally disagree with me in fact they such claims they don't create products for everyone and with this particular product they didn't want to compromise the goal for the GX 800 is simple to create the best fastest and most extreme gaming laptop on the planet I can safely say mission accomplished ensured a su says products like the GX 800 valve not because they make sense most people and not because everybody will want one instead they do it because it pushes the technology and themselves to the limit asus has a lot of passion for creating these kinds of products and they get a great deal of pride out of it keeping in mind that this product is still in the prototype phase I'm mostly impressed with GX 800 delivered it is worth noting that without the liquid cooling dot game is a best off disable SLI making do with the single GTX 1080 this does make the 4k display somewhat overkill and gamers will be best off lowering the resolution to 1440p for example personally I still don't get the point of having 3840 by 2160 pixels on an 18 point 4 inch screen especially when you need two extremely powerful current generation GPUs to achieve 60fps performance and the latest and greatest titles I guess this is all part of the no compromise strategy I should point out that this custom IPS display does feature J sync support though for now this feature isn't working as the current display firmware is yet to support G sync with that said I feel a single GT X 1080 u running at a 1440p will be the perfect mobile gaming solution the fact that the GX 800 really requires the doc into massive 330 watt power bricks makes it more of a desktop than laptop in my opinion a soos will no doubt offer a number of impressive single GPU GeForce 10 series laptops so we can't exactly cut them down for trying something different with GX 800 looking past this extreme and over-the-top Asus implementation it was great to see that for the most part a single GT X 1080 delivers much the same performance inside a laptop as it does in the desktop PC this is big news for mobile gamers previously paying a huge price premium for 20 to 30% less performance has made gaming laptops in my opinion pretty pointless the fact that you can now receive desktop like performance helps to justify the investment I'm particularly interested to see what kind of prices the GTX 1060 models go on sale for thanks for joining me again a hardware on box apologies for my voice and the fact that I'm kind of falling asleep let me know what you think in the comments I'm your host Matt as always and I'll see you guys next time youtubers like me depend on your support to continue improving the quality and content of our videos to support the channel directly consider becoming a patron to also get access to eve of cool rewards and exclusive giveaways also don't forget you can check prices and buy the products I looked at in this video through the Amazon links in the video description below thank you kindly for supporting me and the hardware on box channel it means a lot to me and I really do appreciate it and in return I'll continue to work as hard as I can to keep producing the content you enjoy