Laptops featuring NVIDIA’s all-new 40-series mobile GPUs could go on pre-order Feb. 1 before being available for purchase later that month.
Featuring laptops NVIDIA‘s all-new 40-series GPUs could go on pre-order Feb. 1. The report comes days after NVIDIA announced its RTX 40 mobile lineup at CES 2023 in Las Vegas. According to NVIDIA, the entire range of RTX 4000 GPUs will come to laptops, including the top-of-the-line RTX 4090. The company also announced that the high-end RTX 4080/4090 laptops will start shipping Feb. 8 before the more affordable RTX 4070/4060/4050 models start shipping on Feb. 22.
According to a Chinese tech blog IT Home, laptops featuring NVIDIA’s RTX 40-series GPUs will be available for pre-order on Feb. 1. If the report is accurate, it would mean that the RTX 40 laptops will be available for pre-order in just over two weeks’ time. While only the flagship devices will be available to start off with, the more affordable models should also be available for purchase before the end of next month. This will be a welcome change from the desktop scene, where only the RTX 4090, 4080, and 4070 Ti are up for sale, with the more affordable cards yet to make it to the market.
NVIDIA RTX 4000 laptop GPUs
The flagship card in the RTX 40-series laptop lineup is the RTX 4090, which comes with the AD103 GPU that features 9728 CUDA cores and 16GB of VRAM. As for the RTX 4080, it has 7424 CUDA cores and 12GB of VRAM. In comparison, the desktop RTX 4090 features the AD102-300 GPU with 16384 CUDA cores and comes with 24GB of GDDR6X memory, with peak bandwidth at 1 TB/s. Clearly, the desktop cards will offer more bang for the buck in absolute terms, but NVIDIA is playing up the power efficiency of the RTX 40 laptop cards as one of their major highlights.
According to NVIDIA, the new GPUs will deliver the biggest generational leap over their predecessors in terms of raw performance. The company also claimed that the RTX 40-Series laptops will deliver up to four times the performance of the last-gen hardware in AAA games like full ray-traced Cyberpunk 2077. The new cards are also expected to offer great performance for 3D modeling like Blender.
Pricing for the new laptops will start at $999, but the high-end laptops running the RTX 4080 and 4090 will start at $1,999. Laptops with NVIDIA‘s GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs will be available from the likes of Acer, Alienware, ASUS, Dell, GIGABYTE, HP, Lenovo, MSI, Razer and Samsung. Niche system builders like CyberPower PC, Eluktronics, Hasee, PC Specialist 3XS by Scan and Schenker will also offer PCs featuring the new hardware.
Source: IT Home