what are the latest MXM GPUs?

I think team green is still the GTX 1070 but, has AMD done anything with MXM yet?

 

does the form factor matter to you or are we talking about ALL mxm gpus here? cuz theres also 1060 and 1080 MXM, quadro MXM....

latest from AMD is the 500 series in MXM

 

there's a 1080 MXM? is it a funky MXM so that it can't fit in other laptops? or like 300 watts?

 

You could say that yes. It needs a power connector and has a "funky" form factor

 

The MXM specification refers to board a PCB size and the slot (size and electricals)

There are standard size and almost-standard size 1070s which have been retrofitted successfully

There are no standard size 1080s, both the Clevo and both MSI boards are nothing like MXM standard layout

The Clevo 1080 has been retrofitted only once into an earlier Clevo, and that required electrical hardware mods on the slot as well as a custom power cable and chassis mods to make it fit

Eurocom floated the idea of a mxm 3.0b 1080 but I've heard nothing about that for a looooong time and if past behaviour is an indication, if it was still in planning, you'd see them regularly dropping hints about it on these forums

 

AMD has 500 series MXM cards? where?

 

They exist but are hard to get and won't work on many notebooks due to them not being able to communicate with the EC.

 

AMD needs to re-enter the mobile gpu market, they have been sleeping for some time. I think its time that they start redoing this.

 

so basically unless a GTX 1170 N comes out the 1070 is still the end of the line? (and kills VGA port functionality) [through the sunix is probably better anyways]

 

There's the low end soldered stuff in the ($3000) Crapples but yes nothing MXM. I suppose they saw the HBM shortfall coming a while back and decided what's the point in spending development money to re-enter a tiny market space completely owned by your competitor, when they'll already be facing constrained vega production and high prices being paid by hungry miners. They probably were also wary of ramping up production (I'm sure they could have been allocated more HBM chips if they paid the fabs more for them) to take advantage of the crypto GPU boom because they got stung badly with having warehouses full of graphics cards they couldn't sell after the second hand market was flooded with cheap r290's after bitcoin blew up in 2013.

It would have been great for all if they thought of spinning off those chips heavily underclocked onto cheap MXM boards... but harry hindsight yada yada

TL;DR damn miners

 

Trying to find Quadro P4200, 5200, even 3200 is interesting. Shader counts increased across the range according to notebookcheck.

 

yep, just saw those refreshes as well especially P4200 and P5200 would be very interesting. the P4200 is already more performant than a P5000 at 115W TGP and more shaders than a 1070, so it should be between a 1070 and 1080, very exciting indeed all that in a standard form factor 3.0b format and 980M layout, me likes