A new leak suggests that Nvidia is preparing to launch mobile versions of its RTX 3080, RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 graphics cards, with these new mobile GPUs powering high-end gaming laptops from early 2021. The leak, discovered by the Twitter user @momomo_us, came from Skikk, a Dutch gaming PC maker, which on a web page (which has since been deleted) apparently listed several GPU-powered laptops. The Nvidia RTX 3000 series phones have not yet been announced. The laptops in question came with an Nvidia RTX 3060 with 6GB of GDDR6 memory, an Nvidia RTX 3070 Max-Q with 8GB of GDDR6 memory, and an RTX 3080 Max-Q with 16GB of GDDR6.
New GPUs for laptops
What's interesting about this leak is that right now, Nvidia's RTX 2000 series are the latest GPUs available in laptops, and the RTX 2080 is currently the most powerful graphics card you can get. a laptop. However, with Nvidia launching its RTX 3000 series of desktop graphics cards a few months ago, it was only a matter of time before mobile versions of these laptop GPUs were announced. games, with CES 2021 (which happens in early January) being the most likely event at which Nvidia will make an announcement. So this leak isn't a huge surprise, but if accurate, it gives us an idea of what kind of specs these new mobile GPUs will use. First, it appears that these mobile GPUs will use GDDR6 memory, not the GDDR6X memory found in the desktop variants. This, along with different memory buses for the GPUs, suggests that these will be scaled-down versions of the RTX 3000 series using different chips from the desktop versions. Due to thermal and battery considerations in gaming laptops (which are thinner than desktops), it makes sense for these mobile GPUs to have less power to prevent them from getting too hot and draining too much. quickly extend battery life. Seems to offset that a bit, Nvidia is increasing the amount of memory in the mobile RTX 3080 to 16GB, compared to the 10GB of faster GDDR6X memory in the desktop version. Please note that this leak is far from confirmed and the original page has been removed. However, we expect to see gaming laptops with RTX 3000 at some point in 2021, and we expect them to offer a big performance jump for the best gaming laptops on the planet. Today's best gaming laptop deals ASUS TUF Gaming A15 for gaming... New Dell G5 15 SE Gaming... ASUS - ROG Zephyrus G14 14"... Acer Predator Triton 500... Via Tom's Hardware