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Nvidia Reveals Mobile RTX 3060, 3070, and 3080 GPUs for Gaming Laptops (venturebeat.com) 34

Nvidia's Ampere architecture is going mobile. The company revealed its plans and partnerships to bring GeForce RTX 30-series GPUs to more than 70 laptops throughout 2021. From a report: This includes notebooks with the RTX 3060, RTX 3070, and RTX 3080 all using Nvidia's mobile-optimized Max-Q technology. "After taking the desktop market by storm, our Nvidia Ampere architecture is now powering the world's fastest laptops," Nvidia Geforce OEM general manager Kaustubh Sanghani said. "Nowhere does power efficiency matter more than in gaming laptops, a market that's grown [sevenfold] in the past seven years. These new thin and light systems are based on our Max-Q technologies, where every aspect -- CPU, GPU, software, PCB design, power delivery, thermals -- is optimized for power and performance." Laptops with RTX 3070 and 3080 processors will begin launching later this month. RTX 3060 laptops will follow later. RTX 3060 laptops start at $1,000. RTX 3070 laptops starts at $1,300, and Nvidia claims this is ideal for 90 frames per second at 1440p. RTX 3080 laptops, which use 16GB of GDDR6 memory instead of 10GB GDDR6x, start at $2,000.
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Nvidia Reveals Mobile RTX 3060, 3070, and 3080 GPUs for Gaming Laptops

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  • Wow! (Score:5, Funny)

    by grasshoppa ( 657393 ) on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:30PM (#60934558) Homepage

    I can't wait to not be able to find inventory for those as well!

    • Exactly. Haven't been able to buy any of the higher end video cards for quite a long time. Wake me up when they solve their supply issues.

      • What makes you think it's an issue? $500 GPUs are going for $1000. My 1080 Ti from three years ago is worth $800 today when I bought it for $700 used. New 1080 Tis are going for $1200.
    • You're getting modded "funny" but it's true, supply was already short and now ETH is going nuts, it's going to be 2017 all over again. If you're not interested in paying $100 over MSRP for cards with no display outputs on AliExpress, you're not getting a new GPU this year.
    • Since it appears that most buyers are using GPUs for crypto-mining, I would assume they will not buy RTX-powered laptops. They have much lower compute capabilities, they overheat more easily, they can't be easily cooled, they would pay for the whole laptop instead of the GPU by itself, etc. Too many negatives that even on a buying-cost to crypto-output does not make much sense.

  • by Mal-2 ( 675116 ) on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:33PM (#60934580) Homepage Journal

    That MaxQ RTX 3080 mobile? Yeah, it's gonna perform on par with a standalone 1080Ti. That's not terrible, but it doesn't deserve the 3080 naming and it's a seriously bad move to brand them that way.

    • The RTX 2080 MaxQ is a regular 2080 with reduced clock rates. There's also an RTX "Mobile" line with slightly less reduced clock rates. The RTX 2080 MaxQ performs about on par with the 2070 mobile, or with a desktop 2060. So what should this thing be called? Calling it a 2080 tells you what chip is in it (nr of cores, etc). Calling it a 2060 gives you an idea of what performance to expect. I guess calling it an RTX 2060 MaxQ would have been fairer, but in terms of branding 2080 MaxQ is better: it tell
      • The numbers were announced today, but spoiler: nothing matches between the Desktop chip and the "equivalent" mobile variant. Different power limits, base and boost clock, and even CU/CUDA count.

        This isn't really surprising set against the complete history of mobile graphics chips, but in recent generations there was at least a matching of compute units from Nvidia, now they're reversing that bit of honesty.

        • by Mal-2 ( 675116 )

          Between that and the recent attempts to bully hardware reviewers, it's almost like their marketing department wants to come across as a villain. Question: Whose benefit (other than the obvious "their own") is this performance supposed to be for? And it is just a performance, as the silicon doesn't give a shit whether it's called a 3080 or a Smashinator 15 000 000.

    • nvidia always has done this. Mobile Quadro chips have always been named deceptively for example.

  • Why so many varieties? Why haven't other companies adopted the "Four Great Products" strategy that Apple used to do?
    • Don't worry. Those seventy announced laptops won't ever actually appear, and we'll be relegated to that many fewer choices in new laptops.

    • It's a normal strategy for companies that can't come up with one great product. Just make 70 different products and hope someone buys. When you're big enough it doesn't cost much to develop a new cookie-cutter laptop design when you've got 69 others on the shelf.

    • Why so many varieties? Why haven't other companies adopted the "Four Great Products" strategy that Apple used to do?

      Lots of reasons.

      First, there are competing companies. Even if Dell had 'four great products', and HP had 'four great products', and Lenovo had 'four great products', and Asus had 'four great products', and MSI had 'four great products', you're at 20 great products, and I haven't exhausted all the OEMs yet.

      Second, one of the games played at retail is the 'price match guarantee'. So, to prevent retailers from having a price war, they have some slight variations, with each store getting one. One store gets a b

  • by Cryptimus ( 243846 ) on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:46PM (#60934966) Homepage

    Their entire presentation was a snoozefest with 98% advertising propaganda for existing products and 2% paper launches of completely unavailable products. (Including non-existent Nvidia Reflex supporting monitors which won't hit the market for at least another year - remember BFGD monitors??? Yeah, same deal.)

    Honestly I don't know why they bother. Nvidia needs to shut the fuck up, talk less and actually achieve more. Stop launching bullshit paper products. Come talk to us when you actually have something worth our time.

    • Come talk to us when you actually have something worth our time.

      Or when they put out an open source Vulcan driver. Or when graphics processors can push enough pixels that real-time raytracing actually begins to matter (ten plus years away).

  • Dear Lenovo,

    I desperately want to buy a new Thinkpad mobile workstation (specifically, a Thinkpad, so I can have a keyboard that doesn't suck & Trackpoint), but I've held out for two years now because the ONLY RTX options Lenovo ever offers are Quadro cards. Damn it, give us a best-of-breed NON-Quadro RTX choice next year, please!

    Oh, and a 17"+ display capable of both 3840x2160 @ 60hz gsync AND 1920x1080 @ 240hz+ gsync. Yes, I 'get' that today's panels are link-constrained & can't shovel bits quickl

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