Nvidia RTX 3000 graphics cards are finally coming to gaming laptops
Game changer
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Nvidia’sCES 2021keynote has finally confirmed rumors that have been swirling for a while now, with Team Green announcing its mobile range of RTX 3000 graphics cards, bringing powerful Ampere technology to gaming laptops.
This is incredibly exciting, as it could mean upcoming gaming laptops could get a serious performance boost this year. After all, it’s been two years since the RTX 2080 laptop GPU came out.
With Ampere offering better ray tracing and DLSS support, allowing for better performance at ultra high resolutions with minimal impact to graphic fidelity, we’ll now be seeing these improvements come to gaming laptops.
Next-gen gaming laptops
The new laptop GPUs are built on the Ampere architecture, with second generation RTX and third generation Max-Q technology, which, Nvidia promises offers twice the power efficiency of previous generations.
Being able to offer high performance in thin and light laptop designs, thanks to Max-Q, without overheating, is a tricky balance, and Nvidia states that thanks to AI, it will be able to better manage power and heat.
Dynamic Boost 2.0 will shift power between CPU, GPU and memory via AI on a per frame basis, for even better power optimization and performance gains.
There’s also Whisper Mode 2.0 which will give users control over the acoustics of theirlaptop’s cooling, and is added to laptops at a design-level. Hopefully this means laptops can keep cool without excessive fan noise.
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The new laptop GPUs Nvidia announced are:
We expect gaming laptops with the new RTX 3000 series mobile graphics cards to show up during CES 2021 as well, and hopefully we’ll get a chance to test them out to see just how big of a leap these new mobile GPUs are.
Matt is TechRadar’s Managing Editor for Core Tech, looking after computing and mobile technology. Having written for a number of publications such as PC Plus, PC Format, T3 and Linux Format, there’s no aspect of technology that Matt isn’t passionate about, especially computing and PC gaming. He’s personally reviewed and used most of the laptops in our best laptops guide - and since joining TechRadar in 2014, he’s reviewed over 250 laptops and computing accessories personally.
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