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There’s apparently an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3000 series GPU inside this laptop, and it’s apparently launching on or after January 26th.
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A series of laptop models with built-in GPUs from the RTX 3000 series. Nvidia was not yet ready to release a full list of which models will be launched on January 26th.
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That’s all we’ve had so far in terms of performance-profit estimates, and … yes, that’s a bit vague, Nvidia.
If you were wondering when laptops on 1440p panels will start more seriously, Nvidia’s CES revelations are aimed directly at you this week. Look: a generational leap in the company’s laptop GPUs, this time with Ampere architecture and RTX 3000 series.
A total of three GPU models have been announced and they are named after the GeForce RTX 3080, 3070 and 3060. They will roll out in ’70 + ‘laptop models from January 26th. Nvidia has listed ‘top OEMs’ such as Acer, Alienware, ASUS, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, MSI and Razer with upcoming laptops from the RTX 3000 series, along with ‘local OEMs and system builders’.
Name convention twice for sure
The Nvidia point of sale positions the RTX 3060 laptop variant as ‘faster than laptops with the RTX 2080 Super’, although this model may end up more specifically in 1080p systems. The two higher-end models are often referred to as part of 1440p systems, a resolution that has long been left in the gaming laptop (and is likely to benefit from Nvidia’s own DLSS upscaling solution). Although Nvidia’s latest promotional material calls for a stir, compared to the latest generation of laptops, we’re still waiting for OEMs to roll out specific pricing and specifications for their late January models. (We also wonder if those laptops will sell out too fast for ordinary people to get them.)
Nvidia is continuing with the nomination conference to borrow computer models for its smaller laptop variants, and in some ways it is going out of business. The leap from the laptop to the RTX 3000 series is provided by the inclusion of dual-beam detection cores and third-generation tensor cores – which have proven on the RTX 3000 desktop models that it offers performance upgrades beyond pure rasterization, while requiring space on the physical hardware.
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Nvidia’s official specification sheet for the RTX 3000 series laptop variants.
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For comparison, here are some of the RTX 3000 series desk specifications. This is clearly going to differ, as these are dedicated GPUs with higher power consumption.
But if you put the desktop and laptop specifications side by side, the downgrade for each one varies a bit wilder than you would expect from the names alone. The RTX 3080 in particular sees a CUDA core of almost 30 percent compared to 13 percent for the RTX 3070. (Oddly enough, the RTX 3060 laptop variant will have 6.6 percent more CUDA cores as its desktop version, but 21.1 percent less than the desktop 3060 Ti.)
Honestly, the laptop version of the RTX 3080 probably deserves a different name, as it also downgrades to a 256-bit memory bus and GDDR6 VRAM (instead of the hot hot GDDR6X variant found in the desktop model paired with a 320 -bis bus). Not that it is not necessary to downgrade to work within the thermal and power constraints of a laptop chassis; we just say. Speaking of which, the clock speed for the RTX 3000 laptop range also varies across the board, and the announced ranges from Nvidia will definitely vary further once it is in nature and packaged in a variety of OEM parts.
And in a surprising way, RTX 3080, although it has a VRAM power downgrade, gets an optional capacity upgrade to the size of 16 GB GDDR6. It’s not quite the rumored RTX 3080 Ti (which reportedly can hold as much as 20GB of GDDR6X VRAM), but if you want to go to a serious VRAM on a studio-grade laptop in 2021, you may want a few more piggy banks Bend. before 26 January.
Define ‘whisper’, Nvidia
The rest of the week’s announcement mentions some efficiency-oriented gains that may be difficult to test, as their reinforcement revolves around demands such as’ balance between power … on a frame-by-frame basis’ and ‘access to all GPU VRAM simultaneously ‘. (The latter, called Resizable BAR, is not ready for launch and needs an update from the driver.) There’s also the issue of ‘WhisperMode 2.0’, which apparently allows users to select a fan noise of their choice and the system see. performance adjusted accordingly. Exactly how the performance will shift from ‘hearing myself think’ to ‘standing in an airport hangout’ remains to be seen.
“We look forward to doing these GPUs practically to see exactly how these promises play out, and in the light of things, Nvidia will once again beat AMD well in the market in a given generation, with Team Red being just a vague” first “half of 2020 promise for its range of RDNA2 laptops.
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