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What I want to know is the TDP limits of each of these. I saw that the 13" had a (39?) small power supply, and the 15" had a 95 (?) W power supply. My Alienware 13R3 has a 180W power supply, of which if I am not mistaken fully half goes to that 1060, and 45W goes to the i7-6xxx quad-core CPU.

My guess is that this laptop will have heavy thermal restrictions on the 1060's performance, not to mention a lack of power to actually run it at it's max TDP.

I wonder if they're using nVidia's new technology which underclocks/underpowers the GPUs at (their claim of) only modest cost in performance.




FWIW the SB2 runs a 15W CPU (possibly upTDP'd to 20W?), I can't imagine they run the GPUs much higher than 30W.


The 13" gets 95W brick in dGPU config (same as 15") and houses a 1050 (~45W) and a 8650U (~20W).




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