The Nvidia 950M series and above(Maxwell) is pretty impressive. I'm looking forward to Nvidia Pascal, the estimated boost at the same wattage is 50% (they claim 100% but that's for some CUDA-specific stuff).

Kudos! But just curious, why the Titan? Do you travel a lot?

Cool. Which model comes with CUDA?

50% work and 50% play. I'm doing some on field map stitching projects via photos from drones the specs and somewhat portability of Titan serves my purpose. And I am a gamer too so it'll serve during free time too.

Would wanna know, how lasting can MSI laptop be? and how many years extended warranty is allowed?

Powerful and Efficient for Professionals:The Ultra Slim 17.3" Mobile Workstation -WS72

MSI Introduces new Ultra-Thin workstation laptop WS72 6Q series.

With an ultra-thin and light exterior appearance and aluminum chassis, WS72 measures less than 19.9mm thick and weighs only 2.55kg. It is definitely the world’s thinnest and lightest 17-inch ultra mobile workstation solution. This product is designed for all M&E (Multimedia & Entertainment) designers and CAD CAM engineers who want serious processing power on the go.



The new WS72 Mobile Workstations series is shipped with preloaded Microsoft Windows 10 Pro, while different models come with new line of NVIDIA mobile Quadro GPUs, include WS72-6QJ with M2000M, WS72-6QI with M1000M, and WS72-6QH with M600M graphics respectively.

The Quadro M2100M, M1100M, and M600M built on NVIDIA Maxwell chip architecture. Maxwell is NVIDIA's 10th-generation GPU architecture, following Kepler.This new generation of Quadro processors delivers incredible performance and power efficiency. It’s up to 2X faster than its predecessor, with up to 4GB of ultra-fast GDDR5 memory, the largest on a previous generation of mobile workstation. These are new Quadro mobile GPU products encompass the entire to mid-range segments of the professional graphics card market.

Let’s compare these three graphics performance individually with their previous generations at the same product position: Quadro M2000M with Quadro K2100M, Quadro M1000M with Quadro K1100M, and Quadro M600M with Quadro K620M.
The CUDA Cores number and memory interface determinate the final performance of a graphics card. If we look into the CUDA cores and memory interface design, the Quadro M2000M has 640 CUDA Cores with 128bit memory interface and 5000MHz GDDR5, but the Quadro K2100M has 576 CUDA Cores and the memory bandwidth is lower than M2000M.
The Quadro M1100M comes with 512 CUDA Cores, with 128bit memory interface and GDDR5 as well. However, the Quadro K1100M comes with only 384 CUDA Cores, 128bit memory interface of GDDR5 and 2800MHz GDDR5.
Let’s then take a look at Quadro M600M. It has 384 CUDA Cores and 128bit of GDDR5, which is the same as GTX960M, possessing 640 CUDA Cores and 128bit of GDDR5. The Quadro K620M has also 384 CUDA Cores, but is built in with lower 64bit memory memory interface of DDR3.
Check below image from NVIDIA Quadro Webpage. It shows the Quadro Graphics ‘ Maxwell and Kepler chip architecture
http://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-for-mo...rkstations.html







SPECviewperf 12 is the latest version of the SPECviewperf benchmark released by the Standard Performance Evaluation Committee’s (SPEC) Graphics Performance Characterization (SPECgpc) working group. It replaces SPECviewperf 11, which was released in June 2010. SPECviewperf 12 includes updated versions of SPECviewperf 11 tests as well as new tests to simulate energy and medical applications. SPECviewperf 12 also includes the first DirectX test from the SPECgpc group.

In SPECviewperf 12, the Quadro M2100M, M1100M, and M600M outperforms the NVIDIA Quadro K2100M, K1100M, and K620M for PTC Creo 2.0, Autodesk Maya
2012 and Solidworks2013 tests.The results of the graphics composite scores for these benchmarks are listed in the chart belowix:

We present SPECviewperf 12 benchmark data below for your reference.







Powered by NVIDIA’s Quadro M-series, GPU up to M2000M graphics, the MSI WS72 mobile workstations provides great advantages of the state-of-the-art Maxwell architecture by the chip giant. Besides more energy efficient, challenging visualization workloads, such as 3D-modeling and rendering calculations, are to be taken care of in an effortless manner thanks to the 50% plus performance bump for more advanced architecture.

Powerful and Efficient for ProfessionalsThe Ultra Slim 17.3 Mobile Workstation -WS72-QA

Q: Do these NVIDIA’s Quadro M-series GPUs support CUDA?
A: Yes, they include CUDA-support for GPU computing applications.

Q: What architecture do the NVIDIA’s Quadro M-series GPUs use?
A: These are a 28nm GPU based on our Maxwell Architecture.

Q: What is the difference between Quadro M2000M and Quadro K2100M GPU?

A: Quadro M2000M based on the Maxwell architecture so it offers superior power efficiency than the Quadro K2100M. This new generation of Quadro processors delivers incredible performance and power efficiency. In SPECviewperf 12, the Quadro M2100M outperforms the NVIDIA Quadro K2100M, for PTC Creo 2.0, Autodesk Maya 2012 and Solidworks2013 tests.The Quadro M2000M is around up to 112% faster than the Quadro K2100M.

It appears all the Maxwell cards support CUDA and lots of older cards too:
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology.../supported-gpus

Realistically however the CUDA applications that one would commonly use is Blender 3D Cycles and Daz3D IRay - 3D rendering with GPU CUDA is very much accelerated nowadays.

The super-awesome increase in CUDA performance for Pascal appears to be CUDA applications that revolve around "deep learning" and "artificial intelligence" stuff.

Nonetheless for games and CUDA 3D rendering I hope, no, expect, Pascal to deliver at least 25%-50% improvement at same wattage - at least for those GPUs which have HBM (high bandwidth memory 3D memory thingy) attached because not only is that using Pascal GPU architecture but will have access to this super-fast GPU memory, way beyond GDDR5 speeds.

i wonder how does does HBM fare in photo stitching large number of photos into maps.

Hello i would i like to know which MSI Preloaded Apps are safe to Disable? Like MSI Super Charger , MSI True Color, Nahimic MSI Launcher , Killer Network Manager. I Have 8GB of RAM But everytime i Run a Games Like : GTA V or even Dying Light my computer will Display Low Memory warning. Any help?

Good question. I believe CUDA approaches with 8GB to 16GB or even 32GB of HBM memory will address those issues. Besides the speed of HBM the amount of VRAM they're planning to ship per GPU in Pascal then (I believe) Volta... looks like GPUs could have more RAM than CPUs.

I believe Nvidia is getting a massive amount of government, military, security-industrial and artificial intelligence contracts because they've cracked GPGPU implementations and so these customers that far outstrip the gaming industry - it looks like Nvidia can even go up against Intel now, and are doing so.

2015-2025 we're moving into a GPU+VRAM vs CPU+DRAM hybrid-competitive world.

Indeed if you look at photo stitching massive images a 8 x Titan "Y" Pascal with 16GB HBM VRAM each vs 64 Xeon Cores with 16GB DRAM each - certain types of computing appears to be very suited to GPU compute, and it appears that in many crucial large-data-set applications GPU compute is surpassing x86/64 CPU compute.

Hi, if I am not mistaken those background apps should not be taking a lot of memory. With 8GB of RAM you shouldn't be getting low-memory warnings.

I think if you set the swap (Virtual Memory) to 16GB on your primary (C:) drive you should ~not~ get those warnings any more.

This is because for example when you are running GTA V or Dying Light Windows will then allocate the "live" (hardware) RAM for the game then other processes/ apps/ etc. memory needs will go to the swap file on the hard disk (Virtual Memory).

This post has been edited by klmojuze: Jan 20 2016, 04:34 PM

Can you provide steps for solution for this? also im trying to understand "paging file a.k.a virtual memory i think"

Under Advance System Settings> System Properties ( Advanced ) > Settings > Advanced Tab > Virtual Memory. How to i setting the correct value for this? Im using 8GB Ram and 250GB SSD

on the side note, cant wait for Dx12 and Vulcan too. to some degree it'll help GPU intensive calculations.

Don't make same mistake as me. Be sure to get the 2280 size. 2260 does not fit at all.

My long await samsung 950 pro pcie3 x4 m.2 2280 ssd 256G is coming next week..... Its a huge upgrade I guess, from 550MB/s to 2200MB/s

My long await samsung 950 pro pcie3 x4 m.2 2280 ssd 256G is coming next week..... Its a huge upgrade I guess, from 550MB/s to 2200MB/s

I would said the price paid vs performance increase is not worth to get M2 PCIE a.t.m

Reality shop about 8.4% from review.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/950...lute-monster/2/

They claim the benchmark using skylake will be much better due to extra pcie line. Most benchmark still using older version of CPU which might not really showing its true color yet.

Finally installed Samsung 950 pro Pcie m.2 ssd 256G.
Window boots improved from 16sec to 11sec

This post has been edited by Dannyoski: Jan 30 2016, 09:02 PM

What is hbm memory ?