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Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs for Laptops (venturebeat.com) 30

Posted by msmash from the moving-forward dept.
Nvidia unveiled the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti graphics card using its latest graphics processing unit (GPU) chip. It also showed off laptops with a whole family of 40 Series GPUs. From a report: The 4070 desktop GPU will sell for $800 and will be available on January 5 for custom add-on boards. The Santa Clara, California-based company said the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is faster than the predecessor GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, at nearly half the power, thanks to its new Nvidia Ada Lovelace architecture innovations and Nvidia DLSS 3 (deep learning super sampling) technology. The GPUs are part of the 40 Series family that the company began introducing last fall, and they will compete against the latest offerings from Advanced Micro Devices' Radeon GPU family. Nvidia made the announcement at an online event ahead of the CES 2023 tech trade show in Las Vegas.

Nvidia said that the GPUs will be built into more than 170 laptop models. The laptops use the new 4070, 4060 and 4050 GPUs from Nvidia. And 4090- and 4080-based laptops will start shipping for $2,000 on February 8. Other 40 Series RTX laptops (4050/60/70 starting at $1,000) will start shipping on February 22. Nvidia said the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti will max out a 1440p monitor, delivering over 120 FPS in modern games like A Plague Tale: Requiem, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, and F1 22. Nvidia showed off a bunch of games that will take advantage of the hardware. Other titles that will use RTX's ray tracing include Cyberpunk 2077, Portal with RTX, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and many more.
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  • Amazing (Score:4, Funny)

    by backslashdot ( 95548 ) on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @02:37PM (#63177256)

    Can't wait to play Tetris on this thing, my score will really improve.

  • There is absolutely no point in wasting the transistor budget of a low to midrange GPU by including dedicated ray-tracing functionality.
    • That's what the budget is there for. It's literally the purpose of the card. Whether the functionality uses dedicated silicon or general compute is kind of irrelevant. The "low to midrange" GPU is the Intel Integrated or the Vega graphics, not the 40xx series. The power use alone makes those high-spec cards.
    • This card smokes everything from last gen apart from the Halo products. Low or mid range this ain't.

      • Low or mid range this ain't.

        I was referring to the 4000-series laptop GPU's described in the headline, not that crippled and re-badged 4080 - but even then it's doubtful that a 4070 will be able to raytrace at a rez that's commensurate with its raster performance.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by fazig ( 2909523 )
      Entry level 3D artists?
      Like the RTX 3060 (non Ti) with OptiX (which is supported in all major tile based renderers including the free Blender) still performs better at path tracing than even the RX 7900 XTX with HIP.

      And this doesn't just affect rendering of a final scene but also boosts viewport performance a lot, where the reduced response times make it easier for the artists to make decisions based on lighting which is then helpful for both ray tracing based rendering and more traditional rendering whe

    • by including dedicated ray-tracing functionality.

      The "dedicated ray-tracing functionality" is nothing more than specific compute units that can be used for a variety of things beyond raytracing. Specific RT cores can be used for anything from accelerating shadow calculations, lighting, reflections, and a wide variety of different effects with different costs. On top of that RT cores are combined with Tensor cores which allow this kind of laptop may be of interest to people programming in CUDA. Or if you're a gamer who doesn't give a shit about RTX you cou

  • There's people that use it?

    • I don't really get it either. The type of gaming that these chips are required for isn't the type of thing one typically does on an airplane or a coffee shop. The only potential use I could see would be "professional" gamers who need to pickup their stuff and move locations to compete in various tournaments, but if I was to the point where real money was on the line for gaming I certainly wouldn't be compromising by using a laptop.

      Portability always entails limitations - and that portability aspect needs

      • The only potential use I could see would be "professional" gamers who need to pickup their stuff and move locations to compete in various tournaments

        May come as a shock to you but these days such laptops have many, many uses beyond games. As a non-gamer, I can immediately name two that I do personally: neural networking (run deep learning on the GPU) and 3D modeling/art.

        It is a huge benefit that I'm not tied to a single physical location when I do those.

        And yes, the newer, more powerful GPUs are always interesting. Actually not so much because of the GPU speed itself but rather the VRAM size. More VRAM means you can run more complex NN models and render

      • For the serious gamer it's not moving the laptop that's difficult. It's moving the 558M1RY that's hooked up to it. Those buggers weigh almost 60lb.

    • Nobody is expecting to go balls-out with their GPU while unplugged, but there's apparently a significant market of people who want to own just one computer which does everything they want to do, and they want that computer to be portable. Over 50% of the American public plays some kind of video game, so it's not surprising if there's enough customers to justify these models. There's no doubt also a certain number of sales of the smaller units to execs who insist on having the fastest laptop available, which

    • I gather you've never seen a gaming laptop before? Yes there are people who use it. Yes they will only use it when plugged in. No it doesn't kill the battery when you're not playing games.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by ledow ( 319597 )

      My gaming laptop (in fact, only) laptop is plugged into my Vive Pro. It's got a 240fps panel on the laptop itself, outputs two 90Hz screens to the Vive over DisplayPort, and can also output another screen to an HDMI that I put on a projector.

      Of course you leave the machine plugged in. But I can carry my laptop to any house (I organise the games nights), set up a full top-end VR system, and drive multiple screens so the guy in the VR gets a silky-smooth experience in HL:Alyx WHILE everyone else laughs at t

  • At that power budget, I'm definitely interested.

  • Meh. (Score:1)

    by Chas ( 5144 )

    The current generation RTX cards are underwhelming, stupidly expensive, viciously power hungry and just pointless on something as small as a laptop screen.

    Hell, 4K on a 15" monitor is moronic.

    Moving to a "mobile" class of GPU is just going to expose all the hacks NVIDIA needed to pull to make the performance they did.
    It's a laptop, so you KNOW the power cuts are going to eviscerate it and neuter the performance HEAVILY.

    Unless they're going to build laptops 3 desktop expansion slots wide and start mounting 1

    • I don't like how Nvidia seems to have taken the insane Covid price spike to mean they can inflate their prices by $200.

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