Nvidia introduces laptop variants of GeForce RTX 3080, 3070 and 3060 – computer – news

Nvidia comes with RTX 30 video cards for laptops. The company is introducing laptop variants of the GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070 and RTX 3060. The first laptops with such GPUs will be released on January 26. Laptops with RTX 3060 have a suggested retail price starting at $ 999.

Nvidia provides GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 video cards for laptops are a ‘third generation’ Max-Q optimizations. Nvidia optimizes its Max-Q video cards for use in laptops, whereby the chips, among other things, get lower clock speeds and a lower power compared to the regular GeForce GPUs.

The GPU manufacturer reports that the RTX 3080 laptop variant has 6144 CUDA cores and 8GB or 16GB gddr6 memory. The RTX 3070 gets 5120 of such cores and 8GB of memory, while the RTX 3060 for laptops comes with 6GB of video memory and 3840 CUDA cores. The RTX 3070 and 3080 get a 256bit memory bus, but that of the RTX 3060 is 192bit.

Nvidia introduces RTX 3060, RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 laptop GPUs

The upcoming laptop GPUs will all use the Ampere architecture, which is also used in the RTX 30 video cards for desktops. The chips are thus equipped with second-generation ray tracing cores and third-generation Tensor cores. Nvidia does not disclose how many such cores its upcoming laptop GPUs have.

Nvidia also provides the chips with some other functions, including Dynamic Boost 2.0. This function optimizes the power consumption of a laptop between the CPU, GPU and video memory. Whisper Mode 2.0 is also introduced. This feature allows users to select a desired volume, after which the CPU, GPU, fan speeds and game settings are managed to achieve that sound level.

The laptop GPUs also receive support for Resizable BAR, just like the RTX 30 GPUs for desktops. Resizable BAR is also known as Smart Access Memory, the marketing term used by AMD for this. With Resizable BAR, the processor can access the full amount of video memory of a GPU in one go. Normally this is only possible with a maximum of 256MB at a time.

Nvidia reports that RTX 3060 laptops will start at $ 1000. Laptops with RTX 3070 graphics will start at $ 1300, while RTX 3080 laptops will start at $ 2000 MSRP. Several manufacturers are working on laptops with RTX 30 video cards; Nvidia claims that ‘any OEM’ comes with RTX 30 laptops. These include Alienware, ASUS, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, MSI and Razer.

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