Nvidia has been pretty relaxed with laptop makers, giving them the freedom to make alterations to the standard mobile graphics card design used in their devices. It looks like we may be seeing the beneficial fruits of this decision soon as a new firmware update is being rolled out for a healthy chunk of Acer’s GeForce RTX 3000 series gaming laptops that will increase total graphics power (often abbreviated to TGP).
This comes a few weeks after Alienware, another popular manufacturer of computing hardware decided to use this freedom to manually disable some of the CUDA cores in its m15 gaming laptop. While this was a more perplexing decision, Acer’s choice to juice up the wattage for the GPUs could see some benefits to gamers with an expected performance boost.
We have reached out to Acer for additional information.
Lets up the voltage on this
So far Acer has confirmed that its Nitro 5, Helios 300, Triton 300, and Triton 300 SE gaming laptops will receive the new BIOS update. Some are still currently in development, but updates are available to download now over on the Acer website…
