Thunderbolt 3 or Pascal/Polaris new models?

I wonder if Clevo is interested in the Thunderbolt 3 docked desktop graphics? Something like a laptop with Intel GPU only and the Thunderbolt connector (or combo with USB 3.1 Type C connector)? Few companies did present some prototypes/ideas at CES and so on.

Also AMD and Nvidia will likely race with Pascal and Polaris somewhere this spring and those should be new generations and not rebrands so I wonder what will be the performance gain for like GTX 970M price point? How easy it will be to get for example Witcher 3 on 1080p or 4K from a laptop?

 

While everyone is just guessing at this point you can look to past generational jumps to get an idea.

 

And anybody who knows much on that is probably going to be under non disclosure agreements. Going to be speculation for a while really.

 

About the only thing confirmed is AMD saying they are releasing a high performance mobile chip sometime with the new generation launch in their AMA, you could of course have guessed that pretty easily

 

Well, it looks like the spring will be summer-hot

 

We won't see Pascal in spring! Just having iGPU in the laptop itself is rather limiting for what Clevo sees as it's gaming customers so this would be an unlikely product to see.

Yup, sorry all, NDA lips are sealed.

 

They had a Iris Pro thin laptop some time ago as I recall.

If Polaris will hit MXM format (likely if it will be something like GTX980M for gaming) then still it's risky to pick Clevo barebones now as it may turn out unsupported - if not from hardware point of view then by lack of BIOS update... External Thunderbolt 3 solution is less vendor dependant but still has limits on throughput and it's single GPU solution.

 

Yeah, they do have other types of laptops other than just the "gaming" systems, without dGPUs.

Clevo has had AMD MXM support on previous models. Hopefully that is something support comes out for new GPUs on new models, as well as roll out some updates for models that might be compatible. Time will tell.

 

It depends on the demand and total cost really (Sager always aim to offer value for money), it's early days for the tech at the moment and we don't know how far down that path things will go.

 

Yup, but in the context of creating a laptop specifically with only iGPU but to also be used with eGPU is unlikely IMO.