New Geforce GTX 965M appears in MSI's GE62 gaming laptop

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MSI GE62 Apache-002

Just as we’re waiting on news of another new Nvidia graphics card for our desktop rigs MSI unveils its GE62 Apache-002 sporting a brand new mobile GPU.

MSI’s 15-inch gaming notebook introduces the new GeForce GTX 965M graphics card with the promise of increased battery life. MSI’s previous GE laptops could barely manage around 2-3 hours of uptime, whereas the new GE62 promises 6 under standard use.

GE62 Apache Specs

What we don’t know is what variant of Maxwell we’re getting in the GTX 965M. It could be a cut-down version of the GM 204 used in both the GTX 970M and GTX 980M, or it could be our first look at the GM 206 GPU which is expected to appear on the upcoming GTX 960 desktop card—my guess would be on the older GM 206 GPU, powered by 1,152 or 1,080 CUDA cores.

There's definitely a 2GB frame buffer supporting the MSI GE62’s 1080p screen, however. And from the look of that screen it’s a neat little IPS panel, which means wide viewing angles for your gaming pleasure.

MSI GE62 top-down

One of the things I'm most pleased about is the fact MSI have ditched the single, rocking touch-pad button in favour of separate left and right buttons. I know most use an external mouse for gaming on a laptop, but bad track-pads make me want to chew my fingers off nonetheless.

MSI is also announcing a GE72 laptop, with a larger screen, with prices for the 15-inch GE62 starting at around $1,300 when it hits the shops.

Dave James
Dave James
Editor-in-Chief, Hardware

Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.