Conclusion

MSI's lavish £4,399 implementation sets a new standard for laptop potential, yet the Titan SLI's strengths are countered by an undesirable list of weaknesses.

Nvidia has reinvigorated the high-end laptop scene with the launch of its GeForce GTX 1080, GTX 1070 and GTX 1060 mobile GPUs.

Offering practically the full might of their add-in-card counterparts, the new GeForce range blurs the line between desktop and mobile gaming. A wide range of partners are understandably eager to get in on the action, and at the very top end of the scale MSI goes all-out with the GT83VR 6RF Titan SLI.

Serving mostly as a showcase of what's possible rather than a laptop that gamers would want to live with, this 18.4in behemoth flaunts dual GeForce GTX 1080 GPUs, a quad-core Intel Skylake CPU, 64GB of DDR4 memory and a blazing-fast storage array. MSI's lavish £4,399 implementation sets a new standard for laptop potential, yet the Titan SLI's strengths are countered by an undesirable list of weaknesses.

The vagaries of developer support for SLI is such that some modern games see no benefit from a second GPU, the need for two power supplies adds further bulk to an already large system, fan noise remains bothersome, and all of the available performance appears to be at odds with the 1080p display.

Bottom line: MSI's Titan SLI has only ever appealed to die-hard enthusiasts seeking crazy amounts of performance in a laptop form factor. If that sounds like you, they don't get much faster, nor crazier, than this year's GT83VR 6RF.

The Good		The Bad
A mighty desktop replacement Dual GeForce GTX 1080 GPUs Quad-core Intel Skylake CPU Ultra-fast NVMe storage array Lots of connectivity options Backlit mechanical keyboard		Fan noise is startling Big and bulky form factor SLI inconsistent in some titles Still no high-res display option Requires two power supplies Wallet-busting price tag

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So mobile cpu's are finally starting to bottleneck, instead of gpu's. That cpu will never work well with battlefield 1. At least not on 64man high/ultra settings.

aniilv
So mobile cpu's are finally starting to bottleneck, instead of gpu's. That cpu will never work well with battlefield 1. At least not on 64man high/ultra settings.

I'm very confident that the CPU isn't a bottleneck as that would mean the 6700k which is the same CPU with similar clocks is also a bottleneck.

Why the hell would you ever need 2 1080's to power a 1080p screen? It's madness.

HW90
I'm very confident that the CPU isn't a bottleneck as that would mean the 6700k which is the same CPU with similar clocks is also a bottleneck.

6700k is much, much more powerful - look at the stock clock speeds: 2.9ghz vs 4ghz lol. The 6700k is 4ghz turboing at about 4.1ghz which is pleanty for BF, while 6920HQ turboing to only 3.4ghz when all 4 cores are used - not good enough. I don't have any proof atm this is just from my own testing on multiple machines including 6700HQ which did horribly (though framerate was 60+). Once game comes out there will be plenty of benchmarks to prove it, just have to wait and see.