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In addition to canceling the desktop RTX 4070 Ti GPU launch at CES today, Nvidia has announced a new range of RTX 4000 series laptop GPUs. Nvidia claims its new GPUs will offer significant performance and power efficiency improvements, especially over the low-end GPUs found in the gaming laptops most people buy.
RTX 4000-series laptop GPUs use the same Ada Lovelace architecture as desktop parts, with DLSS 3 support, hardware-accelerated AV1 video encoding, and more efficiency that Nvidia relies on for improvements. It has the same architectural advantages, such as an efficient manufacturing process. power efficiency. (Nvidia didn’t specify in that presentation, but it’s likely the same customized 5nm TSMC process used for his Lovelace cards on the desktop).
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Limited pricing and availability data for mainstream RTX 4050, 4060, and 4070 GPUs.
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High-end 4080 and 4090 series are coming sooner.
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The RTX 4000 will also bring some new power-saving features under Nvidia’s ‘Max-Q’ umbrella, but like its predecessor, there won’t be a specific ‘Max-Q’ branded GPU.
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There are no exact specifications for any GPU. Also, most of Nvidia’s performance comparisons were pretty abstract. We know there are 4050, 4060, 4070, 4080 and (for the first time in a laptop) 4090 class GPUs. We also assume that the manufacturer can set a specific power target for each of his GPUs. This allows us to tune the power efficiency of thinner and lighter laptops while delivering better performance in a design that can handle it. We know that each GPU will continue to use “ultra-low voltage” GDDR6 memory instead of GDDR6X, just like his RTX 3000 series laptop GPUs of the previous generation.
We also know that the unnamed Lovelace GPU (probably 4090) can beat the unnamed Ampere GPU (probably RTX 3080 Ti) in all games by varying amounts. The performance charts provided by Nvidia usually also turn on DLSS and other features, which makes these abstract performance comparisons more difficult and shows how GPUs perform against each other in games and apps that don’t support these features. It becomes more difficult to determine if they are stacked.
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But the most concrete graph is an unnamed Lovelace GPU compared to the RTX 3050 and RTX 3070, where the Lovelace GPU (almost certainly the RTX 4050) can perform at the same level as the RTX 3070, but at 120W instead of It shows that it consumes only 40 W. The RTX 3050 GPU is popular in thin and light designs like the Dell XPS 15 and Surface Laptop Studio, bringing RTX 3070-level performance to these laptops without the need for RTX 3070-level heat, fan noise, or cooling power. Bringing is very important. handle.
Nvidia only releases a new range of mobile GPUs almost every other year. That means the RTX 4000 series could be the chip powering gaming laptops and mobile workstations from this year to sometime in 2025. The RTX 4000 series laptop GPUs are due out on February 8 (for 4080 and 4090) and February 22 (for other GPUs), but are expected to fully replace the established 3000 series in most laptops. will probably take longer. Prices vary, but “starting at $999.”
