Nvidia Reports Problem with Laptop GPUs

Nvidia has uncovered a problem with some of their older laptop graphics cards that shipped in “significant quantities”, the company said Wednesday, but did not specify which series of its GPUs are affected.

The cause of the problem relates to a packaging material used with some of its chips, as well as the thermal design of some laptops, the company said.

Because of this issue, Nvidia prepared a driver that will cause cooling fans to start spinning sooner, in order to reduce the “thermal stress” on the GPUs. According to an Nvidia representative, the driver has been provided to laptop makers directly.

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