Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, 3070 & 3080 Laptop GPUs Announced at CES 2021

Jan. 12, 2021



Nvidia has unveiled the GeForceRTX 3080, RTX 3070, and the RTX 3060 Max-Q GPUfor gaming laptops. These GPUs, as per the press release, will increase energy efficiency by up to 2 times and offer beautiful ray-tracing experiences. They will also be a boon for creators, enabling 2x faster than previous-gen Nvidia GPUs and 30x faster rendering than CPU.

What kind of gaming performance should you expect from the aforesaid GeForce RTX laptop GPUs? The GeForce RTX 3060 GPU willdeliver 90 frames per secondwith ultra settings at 1080p, comparable to RTX 2080 Super laptops. The RTX 3070 Max-Q promises up to 90 frames per second with ultra settings at 1440p while the RTX 3080 Max-Q will deliver over 100 frames per second.

What’s new in third-gen Max-Q technology? The company is using AI and new system optimizations to adjust the performance of RTX Max-Q laptops. They will bring along a Dynamic Boost 2.0 feature that optimizes the maximum performance. The AI network balances the power between the CPU, GPU, and GPU memory. The resizable BAR is an“advanced PCI Express technology that enables all of the GPU memory to be accessed by the CPU at once.”There’s DLSS and WhisperMode 2.0 present onboard as well.

Nvidia confirmed that GeForce RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 Max-Q laptops will launch later this month, as stated above. Gaming laptops powered by the GeForce RTX 3060 Max-Q will be coming in the future, starting at $999 in the US.