nVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M Pro Reviews

Enthusiasts looking to take their PC gaming addition on the move will likely find the MSI GT60 and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M a perfect fit. Just don’t expect a thin and light design or long battery life – those just aren’t in the cards for these high-performance designs quite yet. We will be following up with a full system review of the MSI GT60 soon, so keep an eye on PC Perspective for that. Until then though, if you are in the market for a new gaming laptop, the GTX 780M is the current king of mobile GPUs.

The high-end variants of the GeForce 700 series make a good impression on us. On the one hand, Nvidia manages to close some gaps in its line-up (e.g. between the GTX 675MX and the GTX 680M) while offering a quite viable overclocking solution with its Turbo Boost 2.0. On the other hand, specifically the GeForce GTX 780M thrills us with its 30 % increase in performance when compared to its predecessor, enabling us to play almost all recent games at maximum details and with activated anti-aliasing. The other two, less sophisticated models are also quite fast although some compromises have to be accepted. The performance of the GeForce GTX 770M is not always sufficient to turn all knobs as far as they will go, while the GeForce GTX 765M at times “merely” manages to handle high details and 1.600 x 900 pixels smoothly. Nonetheless, the direct predecessors are outpaced, often noticeably so.