Nvidia’s Ampere architecture is becoming mobile. The company unveiled its plans and partnerships to bring GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs to more than 70 laptops in 2021. This includes notebooks with RTX 3060, RTX 3070 and RTX 3080, all using Nvidia’s mobile-optimized Max-Q technology.
“After conquering the desktop market, our Nvidia Ampere architecture is now powering the fastest laptops in the world,” said Kaustubh Sanghani, general manager of OEM at Nvidia Geforce. “Nowhere does energy efficiency matter more than gaming laptops, a market that has grown [sevenfold] the past seven years. These new thin and light systems are based on our Max-Q technologies, where all aspects – CPU, GPU, software, PCB design, power supply, thermals – are optimized for energy and performance ”.
Laptops with RTX 3070 and 3080 processors will start rolling out later this month. RTX 3060 laptops will be released later.
RTX 3060 laptops start at $ 1,000. RTX 3070 laptops start at $ 1,300, and Nvidia says this is ideal for 90 frames per second at 1440p. RTX 3080 laptops, which use 16 GB of GDDR6 memory instead of 10 GB of GDDR6x, start at $ 2,000.
Nvidia is reinforcing its Max-Q mobile technology for this generation beyond raw power. The company is launching Dynamic Boost 2.0, which uses AI to switch power between the CPU and the GPU. WhisperMode 2.0 is even better at allowing laptop owners to set the desired noise level and then configure the system to meet those demands.
These systems also use a resizable BAR, which allows laptops to share the video card’s RAM with the CPU. This results in approximately 10% performance improvements.
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